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Definition Lateral consonant approximant  is articulated with a stricture of partial closure, i.e. with complete closure in the centre of the vocal tract, but the sides of the tongue are lowered and the lung air escapes along the sides of the tongue freely.   The lateral sound is frictionless. It is in many res…

T. S. Eliot’s work covers a vast arena of modern life. Vikramaditya Rai comments that “Eliot with his high charged microscopic insight portrays the graphic picture of a despaired generation, the smell of war ridden soil, a state of psychological insurgency and the monotony and futility of modern civilization and t…

Dylan Thomas’s  ‘Poem in October’   is derived from the volume,  Death and Entrance  where he presents a vision of his childhood in contradiction to the monotonous, frustrated urban life after world wars. The poem describes comparing and contrasting picture of village’s life and town life which show us the backwa…

Dickens’ flair for expressing matters of common concern in his own style shows in the very title, Hard Times. The title usually suggest cliché or pun, the theme of human life count down by calculation and routine: for example, according to Cocker, “ Hard Times is of hard heads and soft hearts”. A mare questi…

Character Sketch of Behrman In "The Last Leaf," by O. Henry, Behrman is a seemingly defeated character . Behrman is a very important character as his sacrifice is what eventually saves Johnsy. His outer characterization presents him as a painter who is “past sixty”, “the body of an imp” , …