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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: TWELFTH NIGHT             AUTHOR’S BACKGROUND   William Shakespeare was born in 1564 at Stratford-on-Avon to John and Mary Shakespeare.   He was educated at the free grammar school, Stratford, and got married to Anne Hathaway in 1582. Around 1585, Shakespeare moved his family to London to settle. It is conjectured that he was a schoolmaster at Stratford, but when he got to London he worked in some subordinate capacity in one of the two existing theaters in London (the Theater and the Curtain). By 1592, William Shakespeare had become an actor and a playwright.   Before he abandoned dramatic composition, Shakespeare had written thirty-seven plays and one hundred and sixty sonnet and poems. He left London in 1611 for Stratford where he had built an estate and permanently settled until his death in 1616. It has been remarked that ‘William Shakespeare is indisputably the greatest dramatist and poet that England, and...

CRITICAL APPRECIATION OF PROSE                         DIFFERENCES BETWEEN POETRY AND PROSE For a critical analysis of prose writing, it is essential to know the marks which distinguish prose from poetry. In general, we are able to identify poetry quite easily. We also find it easier to appreciate poetry than prose. However, the following specific distinguishing characteristics are noteworthy. First, poetry has a visible and distinct formal pattern. It is metrical and written according to foot, line and stanza. Different forms of poetry have quite specific format; for example, sonnets have 14 lines, prose on the other hand, has formal division only in the sentence, paragraph and, it is non-metrical. Secondly, poetry has sound pattern, i.e. a clearly defined rhyme scheme and/ or rhythm which depends on repetition mostly poetry can hardly be spoken natural...

DETAILED LITERARY DEVICES ASSOCIATED WITH POETRY RHYTHM / METRE Rhythm is the measurable pattern of a poem. (Or verse) It is the metrical movement, order in the stanza form, or overall structure of the poem. It is the beat, or order and measure of the poem. This is why rhythm and metre are classified as one; but there is a distinction between them. Rhythm depends upon the arrangement of stresses. Stress is the syllable to which we give force, breath or emphasis in spoken language, speech or what is called emphatic stress. It is therefore, better and easier to pick up rhythm by ear than just looking at the words to determine which is the stressed or unstressed. Nevertheless, rhythm in poetry is not a matter of counting syllables alone. Metre is the basic pattern of a poem. These basic patterns are iambic, trochaic, anapestic, and dactylic. Feet are used in the composition of patterns. In verse, a foot is the stressed syllable together with the unstressed syllable in ...