Z.I. Mahmud Poems

Oh Blake with your drunken spirit you've adorned,
The everlasting grace and beauty of the Gospel.

You've illuminated mankind with your Poetical Sketches,
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The Scottish chivalry romances couldn't endow the destitute unbridled and impassioned love.
Forever like rolling mists and as frosty snowy stormed heart's brimming.
In Yorkshire's moors incantation flamed as if incestuous despicable firewood.
Anguishes and torments of pathetic fallacy in blossoming insomnia and depravity of nourishment.
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Peevish abbotsford enchanted a woodcraft with holding a candle to the devil

The fair Jewishness of the Maiden incumbent Rebecca's life endangered in chastisement
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Salubrious and sanguine Mr. Bounderby of Coketown
Fallen cold and grey with the love's pestilence and romantic blight;
With the cupid's necromancy bewitched and beguilded:
Enchanted Mr. Bounderby falls in precarious predicament betwixt the devil and the dead sea,
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Explore the ways in which Marlowe presents the relationship between Faustus and Mephistopheles. You must relate your discussion to relevant contextual factors.
Mephistopheles have been a poignant character to embody and exemplify Marlowe's crafted edifice of Doctor Faustus, who would have been a scholar prince but he chooses to be a conjurer laureate. Marlowe's Faustus scholarly, skeptical, defiant and desperate; combines in himself the characteristics of a medieval rebel and a Renaissance adventurer. Through Mephistopheles, Faustus imagines aspiring dreams to achieve the supernatural powers and perform miraculous feats with the spirits of hell at his command. "I command you to come back after changing your present shape which is so ugly that you are not fit to attend on me. Just go and then come back in the guise of an old Franciscan monk. The holy appearance befits a devil best of all."Mephistopheles caricatures as a Franciscan monk (friar) . The docile obedience of Mephistopheles elated the Doctor Faustus (magician who had abjured the Holy Trinity, the Bible and cursed God) .
Mephistopheles, the subordinate of the Fallen Angel Lucifer, the Prince of Hell and Darkness, is depicted as a personification and symbolism of atheism and buffoonery of the Roman Catholic Church. Mephistopheles explained that he hadn't appeared at Faustus' behest but because of performances of necromancy which paves the way towards blasphemy, sacrilege, profanity and imprecations. "No doubt, that was the cause of my appearance; but…name of God or renounce faith in the Bible and the holy books, and his Saviour, Christ, we rather rush to him immediately to get hold of his splendid soul". Inevitably Marlowe created Mephistopheles to please Queen Elizabeth as it was her father Henry the VIII who invented the protestant faith in order to marry Anne Boleyn.
"…there is no chief greater than Belzeebub…the word damnation can never frighten him…for makes no distinction between heaven and hell…" Faustus became skeptical and inquisitive about the nature of damnation and particularly interrogates with a discourse about relationship between Lucifer, heaven and hell. "Unhappy spirit that fell with Lucifer, conspired against out God with Lucifer and forever damned with Lucifer…..And tasted the eternal joys of heaven, Am not tormented with ten thousand hells…everlasting bliss..frivolous demands..fainting soul."
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Explore Marlowe's presentation of Doctor Faustus as a character who gets what he deserves. You must relate to your discussion to relevant contextual factors.
Christopher Marlowe, the Elizabethan playwright wrote the tragical play and morality drama of Doctor Faustus in blank verse. Marlowe's depiction and embodiment of Doctor Faustus personifies the necromantic and damnable life allegorizing evil's triumph over angelic and evangelic nature as-the damnation of human soul. Doctor Faustus being the protagonist was skeptical, desperate and scholarly erudite, and lately he forsakes as well as abjures God, the Holy Scriptures and the Bible.
The morality play begins with a prologue by the chorus in prefatory note who informs Faustus' parentage of a base stock of Rhodes in Germany. He went to procure scholarship from Wittenberg and achieved doctoral fellowship in Divinity. Notwithstanding, Faustus' lustful ambition and carnal-wanton desires are filled with ravish-voluptuousness as allusions to these lines: "His waxen wings…melting heavens conspired his overthrow; "… Icarus the son of Daedulus along with his father escaped from Crete by flying with wings made of fathers and wax. The wings melted as they flew very near to the sun. This mythology poignantly portrays a satirical caricature of the fate ordained and destined in Faustus' eternal damnation.
Doctor Faustus beseeches Wagner, the attendant to summon his necromantic acquaintances Valdes and Cornelius. Because Faustus believed that with their "sage conference" he would be accomplished in black art-necromancy. Furthermore, Faustus, baffled and perplexed the Germany clergymen, surpassed all the learned scholars of Wittenberg and made them throng around him in the same way as the spirits of hell clustered around the renowned singer Musaeus, the son of Orpheus when he came down to the underworld. Even Agrippa's high esteem throughout Europe for same of black magic would be a triffle matter in Faustus' realm.
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Lo!Tis I die a thousand times indeed
In seditious and lascivious desire of wildest dreams
To procurement ofthat eternal bliss
Heavenly kiss that adrift lofty lips
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