John Milton’s Reflection on Blindness in Sonnets 19 and 23 John Milton, one of the greatest poets in English literature, wrote several deeply personal sonnets, among which Sonnet 19 (“When I consider how my light is spent”) and Sonnet 23 (“Methought I saw my late espoused saint”) stand out for their introspective and emotional depth. […]
Comparative Study: Epithalamion and Prothalamion by Edmund Spenser Edmund Spenser, a major Elizabethan poet, is widely admired for his lyrical mastery and allegorical richness. Two of his most celebrated works, “Epithalamion” and “Prothalamion,” are both dedicated to wedding themes but differ significantly in their tone, structure, purpose, and poetic expression. These works provide a unique
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Understanding Romanticism in British Poetry Romanticism was a powerful artistic, literary, and intellectual movement that emerged in the late 18th century and reached its height in the early 19th century. It marked a departure from the rigid forms and rationalism of the Neoclassical era, emphasizing instead emotion, nature, individualism, and imagination. British Romantic poetry is
Contextual Explanation of the Excerpt Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike Source of the Excerpt This famous excerpt is taken from “Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot” by Alexander Pope, a major figure in 18th-century English poetry. The poem
Contextual Explanation of the Excerpt I wonder by my troth, what thou, and I Did, till we lov’d? were we not wean’d till then? Source of the Excerpt This excerpt comes from the poem “The Good-Morrow” by John Donne, one of the leading metaphysical poets of the seventeenth century. The poem is a love lyric,
Contextual Explanation of the Excerpt My loue is now awake out of her dreams, and her fayre eyes like stars that dimmed were With darksome cloud, now shew theyr goodly beams More bright then Hesperus his head doth rere. Source of the Excerpt This excerpt is taken from Edmund Spenser’s famous poem Amoretti, a sonnet
Contextual Explanation of the Excerpt “Now, sire”, quod she, “When we flee fro the bemes For Goddess love, as taak som laxative. Up peril of my soule and o lif, I counseille yow the beeste, I wol nat lye,” Source of the Excerpt This excerpt is taken from Geoffrey Chaucer’s “The Canterbury Tales”, specifically from
Introduction Problem solving is one of the most important cognitive functions in everyday life. Whether it’s solving a math problem, fixing a computer error, or planning a trip, we constantly face problems that require thoughtful solutions. In cognitive psychology, problem solving is defined as the process of identifying a gap between a current state and
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Introduction Cognitive psychology is a major branch of psychology that focuses on understanding mental processes such as thinking, perception, memory, language, and problem-solving. It investigates how people acquire, process, store, and retrieve information. This field is foundational to understanding human behavior and is widely applied in education, therapy, artificial intelligence, and neuroscience. In this post,
Introduction The stage model of memory, also known as the multi-store model, was proposed by Richard Atkinson and Richard Shiffrin in 1968. This influential model describes how information flows through three distinct stages of memory: sensory memory, short-term memory (STM), and long-term memory (LTM). Each stage is responsible for different aspects of memory processing, including
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