LANGUAGE & LITERATURE

            OLD ENGLISH LITERATURE  The pre- Christian Anglo-Saxon poetry By the end of the sixth century England fell in the control of the Teutonic tribes who left the peninsula of Denmark and sought a new place in Britannia, which was then the territory of Rome.  These Teutonics were actually the Angles, the Saxons and the Jutes. Though being furious and violent, they were a singing folk. They sang the war deeds and also sang about the past happenings. They were freemen but attached to the court. They loved nature's beauty and jihad a deep respect to womanhood. The Anglo-Saxon had a strong faith in Pagan gods like Mother Earth, Father Heaven and their son, the lovely summer. The greatest work of the Teutonic race is the 'Beowulf'   Beowulf as a folk epic: The epic may be called as a long rhythmic narrative , which is filled by heroic characters and supernatural agencies who remain under the control of a perfect destiny. The theme sphe...

    WORD POWER Of course, word power is a very very important thing for being a unit of a sentence. Why are we weak in writing? Why do we feel weak when we are going to read a passage, a poem or any piece of English? Problem exists. We need proper planning and orderly thinking. English has a good course of structural  words, and also unlimited content words. Content words are lexical words which vary different meanings and different forms. Lexical words are nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs. Structural words help us binding sentences or flow of sentences. Both have a great contribution in the meaning formation.  But structural words help us  in the grammatical framework of a sentence. Structural words are articles, auxiliaries, pronouns, conjunctions and prepositions. HOW TO GRIP THE MEANING OF CONTENT WORDS: Every word has its journey. Some words are aged about 50 or 100 years, and some are more or less  500. The word 'worship' remains for 400 years....