John Donne's Poem "The Anniversarie" Introduction and Text of the Poem The Anniversary by John Donne is a dramatic lyric in which the poet celebrates his love which is now one year old. In this three-stanza poem, the poet commemorates the first anniversary of seeing his beloved. The poet is the speaker and his beloved is the silent listener in the poem. The central theme of the poem 'The Anniversarie' is the immortality of true love which transcends death itself. The poem 'The Anniversary' has thirty lines; ten lines in three stanzas. The rhyme scheme is AABBCCDDDD. Text :- All Kings, and all their favourites All glory’ of honors, beauties, wits The Sun it selfe, which makes times, as they passe, Is elder by a yeare, now, than it was When thou and I first one another saw: All other things, to their destruction draw, Only our love hath no decay; This, no to morrow hath, nor yesterday, Running it never runs from us away, But tr...
What is Clause ? The clause expresses a complete thought and stands on its own as a sentence. Clauses शब्दों का वह समहू है जिसमे subject और verb दोनों ही होते हैं । Clause पूरा अर्थ व्यक्त करते हैं। Types of Clause एक complete sentence में दो तरह के Clauses होते है - 1) Independent Clause 2) Dependent Clause/ Subordinate clause Example - I bought a book. मैंने किताब खरीदी। इस sentence में simple sentence या clause के जरूरी तीन elements है - Subject = I ,Verb = bought ,Object = a book अब इस sentence में एक और sentence/ clause जोड़ देते हैं - While my mother drank her tea, (I bought a book.) जब मेरी माँ ने अपनी चाय पी। अब इस sentence में दो clauses है - 1) While my mother drank her tea और 2) I bought a book. पर ये दोनों clauses एक जैसे नहीं हैं, इनमे कुछ difference है। जो हमारा पहला clause था (I bought a book) वो अपने आप में complete था। उसका एक पूरा अर्थ है- मैंने किताब खरीदी। इसे अकेले भी use कर सकते हैं।इसलिए यह एक independent clause है। जबकि दूसरा clause "Whi...
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