HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN LITERATURE, POETYR, DRAMA AND PROSE.

NAME: SAVANI MANISHA R.

ASSIGNMENT:  E- C 303 AMERICAN LITERATURE.

TOPIC: HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN LITERATURE, POETYR, DRAMA AND PROSE.

ROLL NO:  15.

SEM:  1.

SUBMITTED TO, DR DILIP BARAD

DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH

BHAVNAGER UNIVERSITY

     

Poetry:-

American literature is very important in the ward, but it’s not important as the Indian literature. American literature is written in English language and Indian literature is written in Sanskrit but after some time many great author its tralastion in the form of English. Poetry means ‘prose and verse’ in which is written in the form of English. Poetry means the poet expresses her view about this strange word. American poetry embodies a clearly identification tension between tradition and future and old forms and new forms. American literature tries separating itself from the tradition. American poetry has its origin in the rich oral traditions of Native American culture. Other cultures have contributed to the rich heritage of American poetry. Spanish explores to current HISPANIC and CHICANO and Chicano poetry. American poetry tradition also has grown in many other languages, from chines to Yelldish as the result of centuries of immigration to the United States.                                                                         

         Poetry includes the many parts like epic poem sonnet, in which Shakespeare sonnet is very important in the ward. And the American literature come too many forms of poetry, like the lyric ode, elegy, ballad, and all the forms are given the curiosity of the poetry. 

     In which given the brief description of the poetry foams.

         

The epic:-

            

The epic is an ancient form of the literature derived from the Greek literature. The blind poet ‘Homer’ wrote the two epics ‘the iliod ‘the ODESSY. The epic is a long narrative written in verse and its deal with loftiness of feeling and nobility of ideas. The epic is long tale in poetry with famous heroes or its principal character and its weaves together into an artistic form. The language of the epic is always noble and exalted and it the epic fits the words and deeds of god and heroes .The epic is written in grand style. In epic tradition, we come across five grate epics of the world. They are the Iliod and the odyssey ‘homer, ‘Aenaid’ BY ‘VIRGIL’ ‘divine comedy by Dante and ‘paradise lost by Milton ’   

·        Sonnet: The sonnet form also referring to lyrical poetry. The sonnet first written in Italy and the grItalian poet Petrach wrote the sonnet Italian sonnet know the petrachan sonnet Shakespeare wrote 154 sonnet and they use the regular rhyme scheme ab ab cd c def eve gg.

·        The lyric :

·                     The lyric is a literary form of poetry. The lyric refer to short poem and lyric falls under the category of subjective poetry. The lyric poets include powerful feelings while writing the poem. Thus intensity of emotions or passions is the main quality of the lyric. The lyric poets like the Keats, Shally, Tennyson, and Swinburn.

·          The ode :

·                       The ode poem falls under the category of lyrical poetry. Ode is longer than lyrical poetry. It is a serious dignified composition. The always in rhyme. The Greek ode has two forms. They are the Daridan ode and the lesbion   ode.

The ballad: The ballad arises out of falls literature. It is one of the oldest forms of English literature.  The ballad is short story in ease, originally intended to be sung deeds rather than thought

           The ballad included the topics like a thrilling adventure, a family disaster love and war and the life. The story in the ballad may be farce and tragic.      

     

The Elegy:-

                      

·        The elegy is ancient Greek foam of poetry and it was written in a dactylic hexameter followed by dactylic pentameter. In Greek poetry the elegy covered up various themes like war love, politic, or lamentation for the dead. In English literature is best known of the elegy is Thomas Gray’s elegy is written in country churchyard. Milton wrote the elegy ‘Lycidas’ on the death of his friend.

·                American poets created a patriotic poetry as a defining literature for the new nation. Puritan poetry who had settled in New England the first poets of the American colonies.  Puritan poets had grown up in England during a period when Chrétien epic poetry.

·                    Maryland colony, Ebenezer cook, and Richard Lewis wrote accomplished satirical poems based on Brties pastoral models. American poets used the British literary model of the mock epic as tool to satirize and criticize British culture. The Fireside poets like William Cullen, Bryant, Henry, word worth and And John Green leaf DURING THE 19^TH century, black and white poets wrote about the abolition of slaves.

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·             Thus, the history of American poetry is usually told as the story of great poets, from Anne Bradstreet through William Cullen Bryant, Walt Whitman. American poetry in the 21 century has entered what is perhaps its most prolific period.

 DRAMA:-

·        American drama begins in the American colonies in the 17^th century and continues to the present. American drama began to diverge from BRITISH drama by the time of Andrew Jackson‘s presidency from 1828 to 1838. Most American plays capied British models until the early 20^th century American drama achieved international recognition with the psychological realiosm of plays by Eugene o Neil and their searing investigation or characters inner lives.

·       MELO DRAMA:-

·                MELO DRAMA IS CONSIDERED a debased from of tragedy. The term melodrama use for a play of a sensation type, relying for its effect a physical action, purely theatrical language and behavior, and naïve sentiment. THE character of melodrama are mealy purpose an extravagant story of crime revenge the evil of drink or gambling, last missing ets.

·        THUS; American drama is differs from the Indian drama. Indian drama like bharatnatayam the drama of harichandra in which I taught the true effect of life from the of this drama actor’s.

PROSE:-

        

Prose, fiction and nonfiction of the American colonies and the United States, written in the English language from about 1600 to the present and growth of the American prose reflected the settlement and growth of the American colonies, largely through history, religious writing and expedition and travel narratives. Many American authors wrote the novel and express her personal experience in the novel.

           The history of the early American, especially in new England, were filled with reference to bible and to god‘s will .storms and sickness might represent god’s worth. Bountiful harvests might signify god’s blessing. American religious writing in the 1700reached a height of drama I ‘sinners in the hands of angry god’’