Emily Dickinson (December 10, 1830 – May 15, 1886) is the most important and original poet that the United States has ever produced. Her work and literary style have exerted tremendous influence on the later poets like Hart Crane, Wallace Stevens, Elizabeth Bishop, Sylvia Plath, Marianne Moore, Anne Sexton, Adrianne Rich, and Denise Levertov. The rhythmic, syntactic and thematic deviation of her poetry has influenced practically all North American poets, men and women. None can claim to be free from Dickinson’s influence. In one way or another, all North American poets —and many from other places, like Luis Cernuda, without going any further— from the 20th century onwards are the product of Emily Dickinson.

Dickinson openly disregarded the poetic rules prevailing in American poetry of her time. She was able to create an absolutely personal style and to write poetry of such an experimental tone that even today, one hundred and thirty-three years after her demise it has not been surpassed. For Dickinson, poetry was most important of all things life had to offer, and in her commitment to the poetic expression, there was not the slightest break from her definition of poetry.

Emily Dickinson was an avid reader. She knew the Bible perfectly. And she also read the works of Dickens, of the Brontë sisters, of George Eliot, of Shakespeare, of Lord Byron, and that of Shelley, Blake or Goethe. Consequently, her poetry reflects the influence of a legion of authors.

She was one of the most voluminous poets of the United States. The corpus of her works includes about 1800 poems. But during her lifetime, Dickinson only published seven poems: one appeared in Round Table; five of them were published in the Springfield Daily Republican and the seventh one was included in the anthology A Masque of Poets along with other female writers such as Helen Hunt Jackson, Fanny Fern. But the scholars maintain that Dickinson did not permit any of these publications. All the poems were published without any credit or whatsoever. Apart from these seven poems, no other poems did see any light before her death.

At present, Emily Dickinson holds a very important position in the field of American Literature. Dozens of books have been written - and continue to be written - about her life and work. In 2016, a biographical film was released that achieved great worldwide success, A Quiet Passion, directed by Terence Davies and masterfully performed by Cynthia Nixon. Her poems continue to enjoy the affection of readers, they are studied in universities around the world and translated into different languages. And hundreds of admirers continue to marvel at an immeasurable work that beats with life, so simple and so complex, so sincere and so full of secrets.

Poetry of Emily Dickinson

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Critics of his day were accused by William Shakespeare of implausibility because he did not respect the three-unit rule. The rule of three units required that a work should be carried out in the same place, in a limited space of time, a maximum of one day, and with a single fundamental action.

Although Italian humanists believed that they found these rules in Aristotle's Poetics, the truth is that Aristotle speaks only of unity of action in an extensive way and refers briefly to unity of time, saying that there is no reason to put temporal limits on comedies, but for tragedies, it is convenient that their duration approaches "one solar cycle", that is, one day.

However, contrary to the opinions of the Italian Preceptists and the French classicists, Shakespeare plays his works in different places and in very long periods of time: the action jumps from one place and from one moment to another, as acts happen, and even within the acts themselves.

In Antonio and Cleopatra, the plot begins in Alexandria, but immediately moves to Rome, to return to Alexandria one scene later and jump to Messina, Rome, Alexandria again, a Roman camp, a galley at sea, a plain in Syria, Rome, Alexandria, Athens, Accio and, finally, in the last scene of the fifth act, again Alexandria. Nothing to envy a Hollywood blockbuster like Mankiewicz's Cleopatra.

All these changes seemed implausible to those who defended the rule of the three units:

“If the viewer realizes that the first act takes place in Alexandria, he will not be able to believe that the second one will take place in Rome, since he knows with certainty that he has not changed places and that this place cannot have changed by itself; that what was a house cannot become a meadow, and that what was Thebes can never be Persepolis ”.

Samuel Johnson gave a response that has become famous to supporters of plausibility and the Three Units Rule: Spectators never lose their minds and know, from the first act to the last, that the stage is just a stage and that the actors are only actors ... Why is it absurd to admit that a space can be first Athens and then Sicily if you have always been aware that it is neither Sicily nor Athens but a modern theater?  In real life, we ​​know that we cannot move from one country to another just by opening and closing a curtain, but we also know that the theatre or the movie theatre are precisely the places where those things are possible. The public understood this before the experts, including the public of Italian and French classical works, since he always knew not only that the amusing story he was seeing did not take place in a sick person's house, but also that that imaginary patient was not even an imaginary patient, but Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, nicknamed Molière, protagonist and author of the play.

Shakespeare himself, in the prologue to Henry V , admits that any play is at its very essence implausible:

“But all of you, noble spectators, forgive the flameless genius who has dared to bring these unworthy tablados such a great subject. Can this cockerel circus contain the vast fields of France? Or could we in this wooden O only bring in the helmets that scared heaven in Agincourt? ”

Fortunately, this essential implausibility can be forgotten if the public does their part and agrees to play the game that is proposed:

“Supply my insufficiency with your thoughts. Multiply one man by a thousand and create an imaginary army. When we talk to you about horses, think that you see them treading the softness of the ground with their magnificent hooves, because it is your imagination that must dress the kings today, transport them from here to there, ride over the ages, pile up the events in an hour of many years ”.

Cinema does not demand as much of the spectator's imagination as theatre does, and Shakespeare would have had no need to write Henry V's prologue if he had shot a film, in which he could have shown thousands of men an entire army of extras. , the din caused by the hooves of hundreds of galloping horses and kings dressed as such in throne rooms identical to those trod by the kings of England.

Cinema can show almost everything, but, paradoxically, that makes the spectator, accustomed to not having to use just his imagination, more demanding than the theatre when he notices any small detail that does not coincide with his idea of ​​how that's it in the real world.

Shakespearean Plays

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The lemon fruit is a pale-yellow, elliptically shaped berry, which usually has a small, nipplelike protuberance at the apex. The exocarp layer is the leathery rind, containing oil of lemon, which is used in the manufacture of perfumes and lemon flavoring. The nearly tasteless, spongy, white layer beneath the rind is the mesocarp, which contains a substance called citrin or vitamin P. The pulp, which comprises the endocarp layer, consists of eight to ten segments containing small, pointed, yellowish-white seeds.

 
Most cultivated lemon varieties are hybrids that produce little or no truebred seed. Propagation in commercial lemon orchards is usually accomplished by grafting lemon buds onto seedlings of related species, such as orange or grapefruit. The trees are planted in fertile soil to which fertilizer is continually added. The rows are spaced 5 to 8 m (15 to 25 ft) apart, depending on the variety planted and the climate and topography of the region. Except when extreme temperatures delay blooming, fruits are produced throughout the year. Green, almost ripe, fruit is picked from each tree six to ten times yearly and is ripened at moderately warm temperatures. Mature lemon trees may produce between 1,000 and 2,000 fruits per year.

Lemon trees grow to be about 3 to 6 m (about 10 to 20 ft) tall and are sparsely covered with foliage. The flower has five sepals, five petals, numerous stamens, and a solitary pistil. The upper surface of each petal is white, and the lower surface is pinkish. Lemon flowers have a sweet odor comparable to, but less marked than, the odor of orange flowers.

The main types of lemons produced in the United States are the Eureka, the Lisbon, the Genoa, the Sicily, the Belair, and the Villafranca. Some lemons are produced in Arizona and Florida, but most of the commercial crop is grown in southern California, where production averages about 90 percent of the annual U.S. output.

It grows abundantly in Bangladesh. But the Bangladeshi lemons lack the proper sourness and flavor of the western ones.

Merits & Demerits of Bangladeshi Lemons

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Quick Facts

• Full Name: William Shakespeare
• Birthplace: Stratford, England
• Date of Birth: April 23, 1564
• Died: April 23, 1616
• PLACE OF BIRTH: Stratford-upon-Avon, United Kingdom
• PLACE OF DEATH: Stratford-upon-Avon, United Kingdom
• EDUCATION: King's New School
• Literary Genres : Poetry / Drama / Theater
• AKA: Shakspere

Biography

On April 26, 1564, in the sixth year of the reign of Elizabeth I of England, William Shakespeare was baptized in Stratford-upon-Avon, a small town in Warwick County not exceeding two thousand inhabitants, all proud of their church, its school and its bridge over the river. One of these was John Shakespeare, a wool merchant, butcher, and tenant who became a councillor, treasurer, and mayor. From his union with Mary Arden, a young lady of a distinguished family, five children were born, the third of whom received the name of William. There is no record of the day of his birth, but traditionally his birthday is celebrated on April 23, perhaps to find some design or fatality in the date, since death came to him, fifty-two years later, in that same day.

Shakespeare's father, who was at the height of his prosperity when William was born, soon fell out of favour. When he was thirteen years old, his father's fortune disappeared and the young man had to be placed as a butcher shop clerk, leaving the classrooms. He is also described wandering indolently along the banks of the Avon, smearing verses, indulging in the study of botanical trifles, or vying with the hardest drinkers, and napping afterwards at the foot of the Arden groves.

On November 28, 1582, when he was 18 years old, Shakespeare married Anne Hathaway, 26, from Temple Grafton, a town near Stratford. Apparently, there was a rush to arrange the wedding, perhaps because Anne was three months pregnant. After his marriage, there are hardly any marks of William Shakespeare in historical records, until he makes his appearance on the London theatre scene. On May 26, 1583, the couple's firstborn daughter, Susanna, was baptized in Stratford. A son, Hamnet, and another daughter, Judith, born twins, were also baptized soon after, on February 2, 1585; Hamnet died at eleven years old, and only his daughters reached adulthood. Judging by the playwright's will, who is somewhat dismissive of Anne Hathaway, the marriage was not well matched.

He continued writing verses, hypnotized attended the representations that the companies of comedians of the league offered in the Hall of Guilds of Stratford and did not miss the masquerades, fireworks, horseback riding and theatrical performances with which the visits of the queen to the castle were celebrated Kenilworth, home of one of his favourites.

By 1592 Shakespeare was already in London working as a playwright and was well known enough. He would soon become an actor, writer, and eventually co-owner of the theatre company known as Lord Chamberlain's Men, which received his name, as well as others of the time, from his aristocratic patron, the Lord Chamberlain (Lord Chamberlain). The company would reach such popularity that, after the death of Elizabeth I and the rise to the throne of James I Stuart, the new monarch would take it under her protection, becoming the King's Men (Men of the King).

Parallel to its theatrical success, it improved its economy. He became one of the shareholders of his theatre, was able to help his father financially, and even in 1596 bought him a noble title, whose coat of arms appears on the monument to the poet built shortly after his death in Stratford Church.
Shakespeare retired to his hometown in 1611, by the end of the century he was already quite wealthy and bought or had a house built in Stratford, which he called New-Place.
William Shakespeare passed away on April 23, 1616, at the age of fifty-two. Shakespeare's remains were buried in the chancel of Stratford's Holy Trinity Church.

April 23 is the date chosen by the Unesco General Conference to pay a worldwide tribute to the book and its authors.

Shakespeare Biography

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