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  Lockdown - a poem by Poet Laureat Simon Armitage  About author :  Simon armitage :        Simon Armitage is a British poet, playwright, and novelist, born on May 26, 1963, in Marsden, West Yorkshire, England. He is widely regarded as one of the leading contemporary poets of the UK. Armitage has a distinctive style that often combines conversational language, dark humor, and keen observation of everyday life. His work explores themes such as identity, human relationships, and social issues. Early Life and Education Armitage grew up in the village of Marsden and attended Colne Valley High School. He later studied geography at Portsmouth Polytechnic and received a postgraduate qualification in social work from Manchester University. Before becoming a full-time writer, he worked as a probation officer, a profession that influenced his poetry by giving him insight into human behavior and society.  Literary Career Armitage’s first collection of poetry...

  Post truth : The Word of the Year 2016       Definition of post truth :       "relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief."               Post-truth is a term that refers to the widespread documentation of, and concern about, disputes over public truth claims in the 21st century. The term's academic development refers to the theories and research that explain the specific causes historically, and the effects of the phenomenon.popularly defines it as "relating to and denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief. While the term was used in phrases like " post-truth politics " academically and publicly before 2016,in 2016 the term was named Word of the Year by Oxford Dictionaries after the term's proliferation in...

Wordsworth and Coleridge     Question: What are the characteristics of Romantic poetry? Illustrate with examples from Wordsworth and Coleridge.      William wordsworth biography  :                  William Wordsworth, (born April 7, 1770, Cockermouth, Cumberland, Eng.—died April 23, 1850, Rydal Mount, Westmorland), English poet. Orphaned at age 13, Wordsworth attended Cambridge University, but he remained rootless and virtually penniless until 1795, when a legacy made possible a reunion with his sister Dorothy Wordsworth. He became friends with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, with whom he wrote Lyrical Ballads (1798), the collection often considered to have launched the English Romantic movement. Wordsworth’s contributions include “Tintern Abbey” and many lyrics controversial for their common, everyday language. About 1798 he began writing The Prelude (1850), the epic autobiographical poem that would absorb him in...

  Teacher's day activity       Happy Teacher's Day                               This Blog is part of a virtual Teacher's day activity conducted by Department of English from Bhavnagar University  I have prepared this video based on the Topic    "Literary Terms "  Here I  put this link of my you tube video :      https://youtu.be/5Vm0vDHhhII?si=4KCanVW5oyGtbQjS   Here is quiz link , so you can Check out,  https://forms.gle/TQxhMLbs2rgBSXpW6      I have even the posted this video as a lesson in TED-ED. You can also check that out  From click here  https://ed.ted.com/on/7FSRZIKU             Thank you all of you 

Screening Shakespeare's " Macbeth "       William Shakespeare (26 April 1564 (baptised) – 23 April 1616) was an English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world’s pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England’s national poet and the “Bard of Avon”. His extant works, including some collaborations, consist of around38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and a few other verses, of which the authorship of some is uncertain. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright.         Shakespeare was born and brought up in Stratford-upon-Avon. At the age of 18, he married Anne Hathaway, with whom he had three children: Susanna, and twins Hamnet and Judith. Between 1585 and 1592, he began a successful career in London as an actor, writer, and part-owner of a playing company called the Lord Chamberlain’s Me...