English Language and Literature

In an interview with a BS-English undergraduate student Syed Asad Ali, the Chairman of PCB Rameez Raja told that in order to become a successful commentator you should focus on one thing, your Oral Communication Skills, and more specifically how to improve your oral communication skills. The Legendary Pakistani Commentator told that “Confidence” is the main key as well as the biggest obstacle for one to become a fluent speaker and as well as to become the best commentator ever. According to him, if you want to convey your feeling or your opinion on a certain matter, it is very much important for you to throw away your shyness and thoughts about how others will take what you just said. He also said that the trick that he used and still does is to use Google search to improve his vocabulary. He said that if you come across a word that most likely relates to your field of interest, try to search for that word’s meaning, its pronunciation, and how you can use that word in your own sent

 Line by line analysis of “The Second Coming”: (Stanzas and their Paraphrasing) Stanza No. 1   In the first stanza, the poet William Butler Yeats talks about the ever-increasing and stretching spiritual circles that become bigger and bigger as they move upward. Each circle in that cone-shaped coil represents the 200 years of our history. According to him, in each one of those two hundred years, there always comes a time when humanity almost comes across its extinction because of its own made-up, chaos, and destruction. The Falcon which is the man, causing all this destruction, is not being able to recognize his Creator i.e. the falconer. There also seems to be an imbalance in everything and because of this imbalance, the forces that are trying to keep everything in shape and order are now not being able to do so. They are all falling apart. The only thing that can be seen in this world is the state of disorder because there

William Wordsworth was a huge worshipper of nature and this Daffodil poem illustrated his love for nature and how his treatment of nature is unique then the rest of the poets who adore and love nature and use it in their poems. “I wandered lonely as a cloud” meaning gives you the impression that this poem which you are about to read is going to be the saddest poem that you’ll ever read and after reading it you’ll feel as lonely as ever but, when you do, you realize that this poem contains a lot of pleasure and joy and also the eternal source of that happiness for you and your sad and lonely moments, therefore the readers like to call this poem by the name of “Daffodils” than the entire phrase “I wandered lonely as a cloud”. Summary of the poem “I wandered lonely as a cloud”: The poet was once wandering over the valleys and hills when all of a sudden he came across a huge amount of dancing golden Daffodils.  They were about ten thousand in just one glimpse and the poet couldn't even

Linguistics has been divided into many categories. Some would say that those categories are the main pillars on which the entire linguistic side of a language rests its weight. Two of those pillars are Pragmatics and Semantics. This article would be all about semantic and pragmatic meaning and analysis, the importance of semantics and pragmatics, the difference between pragmatics and semantics with examples, and much more Pragmatics: Pragmatics is the branch of linguistics that deals with the meaning of the background or the context of the conversation. Here the listener doesn’t only pays attention to the speaker’s words or their meanings but also heeds on the intention of what the speaker really means. So therefore in Pragmatics, one is not only concerned about what is in front of him and is visible but also things that are hidden, and to get them, one needs to be vigilant and careful about the tone, situation, and mutual understanding between the speaker and the listener. Pragmat