1800 Century English Lit

1800 CENTURY ENGLISH LITERATURE

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Introduction

Poems have been used for centuries to communicate , hide , preserve and transform meaning that in normal parlance would lose its significance The significance of poems is as vital as the human race as is echoed by the words of John Keating who said , We don 't read and write poems because it is cute . We read and write poems because we are members of the human race . And the human race is filled with passion Therefore , poems can tell a story , vividly describe

an object or situation , express the feelings of animate and in-animate things beyond what the normal sentence structure ever will (Kurkland . The use of language as a vehicle or tool of delivery is paramount through out histories of all cultures . Linguistic importance is noted in many poems written before the 1800 because they capture historical moments and great deeds of men which normal language would not do much justice

Hero and Lander is a fragmentary poem by Christopher Marlowe who lived in the 1550s , a retelling a love story of two people , first written by a Greek poet Masseus Grammaticus but retold by Marlowe in a unique sensual and erotic way that captured the hearts of many of his contemporaries and was considered a master piece . The battle of Maldon is a poem named after a famous battle fought towards the end of 10th century between the English and the Vikings . The poem describes the events of the battle and...