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Rajmohan's Wife  by Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay the first ever English novel in India. Apart from that, this novel is the novelist's first novel ever. Published in 1864, t he theme of the novel is love and romance as well as depiction of strong women with twenty-one chapters in totaling. The first chapter of the novel is “The Drawers of Water”, while  the last chapter of the novel is “The Last Chapter in Life’s Book – and In This”. Now let's have an overview of the chapters -- Chapter 1 A tiny hamlet situated on the banks of the Madhumati River was very much important because of the rich zamindars living there. After a siesta, Kanak, a lady of about thirty years of age, went to a neighbour's house with four huts. There she came across a young housewife who was busy in her needlework. Chapter 2 When the sun was about to go down, Kanak and her companion, that is, the young lady of eighteen years of age, were returning home with pitchers in their h...
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Sonnet/ Everything about sonnet/ Sonnet discussed in detail/ Kinds of sonnet/ Petrarchan sonnet/ Spenserian sonnet/ Shakespearean sonnet/ Volta/ Rhyme schemes of various or different kinds of sonnet/ Iambic feet in sonnet/ Which prosody does a sonnet normally consist of?

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  We all have come across a great number of poetic forms till date. However, there are various names that sometimes sound tongue twisting also. So, today, why don’t we discuss about sonnet in detail? Hailing from Italy, sonnet is actually a form of poetry or verse. Apart from that, we must know that such a form of poetry is usually a poem having fourteen lines. Moreover, it must be noted that each line of a sonnet generally consists of five iambic feet.  Anyway, a Volta must be there in a sonnet to create a turning point . Anyway, a Volta must be there in a sonnet to create a turning point . That is to say, for instance, in a sonnet, the first eight lines may have questions only, but the rest of the poem answers them all. Likewise, we get a turning point somewhere in between the octet and the sestet in a sonnet normally. Now, what is an iambic foot? We need to know that first of all. When an unaccented or unstressed syllable is followed by a stressed or an accented one, ...
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Derozio’s “To India, My Native Land”: Critical Appreciation

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Henry Louis Vivian Derozio’s love for India whispered into his ears to pay a homage to the land with the aid of his poem,  To India, My Native Land .  He is the first poet of Modern India to express his fiercely intense patriotism in poetry.  To India, My Native Land is a magnificent sonnet that depicts his pure patriotism. This sonnet also delineates his utmost will to emancipate India from the British bondage. In this patriotic poem, the speaker persona recalls India's past glory before the era of British bondage. She was suffused with name and fame, only glory but no worry during those days. She was over brimmed with cultural and spiritual richness at that time. Anyway, after the British reign, such abstracts went away in the twinkling of an eye. She became bereft of all such richness. In this poem, we come across rhetorical questions. Again, the image of eagle in this poem symbolise the royalty of the land in the then times. Dust  epitomis...
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