Classic to Modern English Literature

Elizabethan to Jacobean Drama ★ Elizabethan to Jacobean Drama ↓↓↓ Introduction of Elizabethan Age The name of the Elizabethan age was derived from the Tudor Monarch of England, Queen Elizabeth I, whose reign lasted from 1558 to 1603. During this age, several important dramatists emerged, including William Shakespeare ("Hamlet"), Christopher Marlowe ("Doctor Faustus"), Ben Jonson ("Volpone"), Thomas Kyd ("The Spanish Tragedy"), and John Webster ("The Duchess of Malfi"). This period is renowned for significant accomplishments such as those by Sir Francis Drake. Francis Drake Sir Francis Drake (circa 1540–1596) was an English explorer, sea captain, and privateer. He is best known for his circumnavigation of the globe between 1577 and 1580, making him the second person to complete this journey, after Ferdinand Magellan. Drake

Tonight I Can Write The Saddest Lines by Pablo Neruda Introduction One of Pablo Neruda’s iconic love poems ‘Tonight I Can Write the Saddest Lines’, appeared in Neruda’s collection, “Twenty love poems and a song of Despair”. It was first published in 1924 when Neruda was nineteenth. One of the most striking aspects of the poem is its “Universality”. It’s a master piece of modern poetry. In the poem, Neruda expresses his current state of mind and the emotions. He writes about the “beauty of love”, and how it gets the power to bring peace and happiness to his soul. The poem explores, “lost love, grief, and power of art”. Structure Neruda’s poem ‘Tonight I Can Write the Saddest Lines’ consists of thirty-one lines. The poem is a free verse. It has no proper rhyme scheme and follows a “peculiar form” of poetry. Summary Paragraph 1: In the first seven lines, t