ব্যাখ্যা
- মুহম্মদ শহীদুল্লাহর মতে শবরপা চর্যাপদের সবচেয়ে প্রাচীন কবি।
- শবরপা লুইপার গুরু ছিলেন।
- তিনি চর্যাপদের ২৮ নং ও ৫০ নং পদ রচনা করেন।
- সংস্কৃত ও অপভ্রংশ মিলে তিনি ১৬ টি গ্রন্থ লিখেছেন
[উৎসঃ বাংলা ভাষা ও সাহিত্য জিজ্ঞাসা- ড. সৌমিত্র শেখর।]
ফ্রি সাপ্তাহিক মডেল টেস্ট · তারিখ অনির্ধারিত · ৯৫ প্রশ্ন
Ode:
An exalted lyric poem that begins with an address to someone, instill anguish in the middle part and ends with consolation.
Elegy:
A lyric poem mourning for the death of an individual or lamenting over a tragic event.
Lyric:
A short poem expressing personal or subjective thoughts and intense feelings of a single speaker. It is identical to a song sung with a lyre.
Ballad:
A narrative poem that tells a story through dialogue and action. Its general features are:
- It is narrative in form, and so, it tells a story.
- Its narrator is generally impersonal third person.
- It opens dramatically at the middle of the story.
- Its story is told in dialogue and action.
Source: An ABC of English Literature - Dr M Mofizar Rahman
Jonathan Swift is an Anglo-Irish author, who was the foremost prose satirist in the English language.
Jonathan Swift is best known for Gulliver’s Travels, which, in parodying the popular travel narrative, mocks English customs and the politics of the day,
and “A Modest Proposal,” a satiric essay that suggests improving living conditions in Ireland by butchering children of the Irish poor and selling them as food to wealthy English landlords.
His other literary works are:
- “A Tale of a Tub”
- "Journal to Stella”
- “Drapier’s Letters”
- "The Conduct of the Allies”
Source: Britannica.com
The greatest English dramatist, William Shakespeare is often called the ‘Bard of Avon’.
He wrote 37 plays and 154 sonnets.
His famous Tragedies are:
- Hamlet,
- Macbeth,
- Othello,
- King Lear,
- Julius Caesar,
- Romeo and Juliet,
- Antony and Cleopatra,
- Titus Andronicus,
- Timon of Athens. etc.
First Folio, first published edition (1623) of the collected works of William Shakespeare.
Source: Britannica.com
Caesar and Cleopatra is a tragedy written by G. B Shaw.
John Keats is called the Poet of Beauty. He is a famous Romantic Poet.
His famous works are:
- Endymion,
- Hyperion,
- Ode to a Nightingale,
- Lamia,
- Ode to Autumn,
- Ode to Psyche,
- A part of Lovers,
- Bright Star,
- A Daughter of Sunshine,
- The eve of St. Agnes etc.
Source: Britannica.com
"No Nightingale did ever chaunt
More welcome notes to weary bands
Of travellers in some shady haunt,
Among Arabian sands:
A voice so thrilling ne'er was heard
In spring-time from the Cuckoo-bird,
Breaking the silence of the seas
Among the farthest Hebrides."
- The Solitary Reaper
By William Wordsworth
William Wordsworth's major works:
- Lyrical Ballad (1798),
- The Daffodils,
- The prelude (1850),
- Lucy poem,
- Tintern Abbey,
- The Solitary Reaper,
- The Excursion.
Source: Britannica