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FREE NOTES: CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE: DOCTOR FAUSTUS

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Drama: Christopher Marlowe: Doctor Faustus Qustion : Discuss the Renaissance elements in Doctor Faustus. Answer: Christopher Marlowe, including the Elizabethan University wits, is significantly inspired as well as influenced by the Renaissance spirit which takes it origin in Italy. An eminent critic says, “Rabel and Pioneer, though he was, Marlowe was yet a product of his own age. The introduction of the Good and Bad angels, of the minor devils and of the seven deadly sins in Dr. Faustus links him with the drama of the later middle Ages. Faustus’s inexhaustible thirst for knowledge, his worship of beauty, his passion for the classics, his scepticism, his interest in sorcery and magic, his admiration for Machiavelli and for superhuman ambition and will in the persuit of ideals of beauty or power, or whatever they may be, prove the author to be a man of the Renaissance.” Faustus is an in carnation of the Renaissance s

FREE NOTES: W.B.YEATS

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FREE NOTES: MODERN Poetry: W.B. Yeats Question :Discuss Yeats’ growth as a poet with reference to his poetry. or , Discuss the main stages of development of Yeats as a poet. or, Discuss the major themes of Yeats’ poetry ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Answer: The poetic career of W. B. Yeats encompasses a relatively prolonged period. During this time, his attitude to life and arts changed considerably. Besides, he saw rapid changes in his own society and in the outside world. All these helped him to be a dynamic artist, the theme and the style of his poetry being under constant evolution. Thus a study of his poetry tends to reveal that his poetic career falls into at least three distinguishable phases. In his early years. Yeats was influenced by the Romantic poets, especially Shelley, and his early verse show considerable elements of romanticism in them. This period of “Celtic Twilight” is marked