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The Great Dictator Frame Study

  Hello Friends,  This blog is my response to the task given to us by our Prof.Dr.DilipSir on the frame study in the film of Charlie Chaplin "The Great Dictator", so have look, read and enjoy, Happy Learning! This frame shows the Aeroplane, it symbolises progress, prosperity, peace. It makes our journey more easy and saves our time while travelling. It's above us and tells us to look up at our dreams and fly to achieve them.  The Great Dictator is a 1940 American political satire comedy-drama film written, directed, produced, scored by, and starring British comedian Charlie Chaplin, following the tradition of many of his other films. Having been the only Hollywood filmmaker to continue to make silent films well into the period of sound films, Chaplin made this his first true sound film. Chaplin's film advanced a stirring condemnation of Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, fascism, antisemitism, and the Nazis. At the time of its first release, the United States was still f

The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot

Hello Friends,  This blog is my response to the task assigned to us by our Prof.Dr.DilipSir, Head of the Department, M. K. Bhavnagar University. So friends read, understand and enjoy. Happy Learning! ☆Nihilism in T.S. Eliot’s 'The Wasteland' Chapter 1 Introduction Nihilism is a very popular concept in English Literature and many authors have taken Nihilism as a theme in many of their works. The word Nihilism has long history. The word Nihilism is the resultant of the Latin phrase ‘Nihil’, which means anything does not exist. This term grew to be preferred with the newsletter of Ivan Turgenev’s novel Fathers and sons (1862) the place he used nihilism to explain the basic and rudimentary scientism supported by way of this character Bazarov who sermonizes a statement of belief of total negation. There are a couple of interpretations of the phrase Nihilism, as many critics have stated about Nietzsche that he believed within the literal dying of god. Nietzsche in lots of his works e

Modern Poems

Hello Friends,  This blog is my response to the task of the thinking activity given to us by our Prof.Dr.DilipSir, Head of the English Department, M K Bhavnagar University, on the Modern Poems. Read, understand and enjoy. Happy Learning! Click here for Sir's blog "The Pool" By  Hilda Doolittle Are you alive?  I touch you.  You quiver like a sea-fish.  I cover you with my net.  What are you—banded one? A reading of a classic Imagist poem ‘The Pool’ is, along with ‘Oread’, Hilda Doolittle’s finest achievement as an Imagist poet. The poem was first published in the 1915 anthology Some Imagist Poets. You can read ‘The Pool’ here (all five lines of it), before proceeding to our analysis of this curious little poem. ‘The Pool’ is one of the most famous and widely discussed Imagist poems, and in many ways it conforms to the central ‘tenets’ of that movement as set out by Ezra Pound in his unofficial manifesto, ‘A Few Don’ts by an Imagiste’. It’s unrhymed, it has no regular metre