Essays on Rime

Describe portfolio investments and FDI. How do they differ and why is it important to distinguish between them?

Foreign portfolio investments (FPI) and foreign direct investments (FDI) are two commonly used and at times easily confused phrases. Foreign portfolio investments refer to investments in financial assets in a foreign country. These financial instruments include instruments like stocks and bonds. Investors love to invest in such instruments in order to diversify and hedge their portfolios. For example, Brexit has caused European banks to shed their values significantly and some international fund managers have already started purchasing these banks to diversify their portfolio and take advantage of attractive stock valuations. On the other hand, foreign direct investment refers to ...

“The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” written by William Taylor Coleridge is one of the most distinctive and inimitable poems, quite unusual because of its language, topical amphibology, depicted unseen creatures that live in the world, and powerful nature beautiful and scaring at the same time. Having little in common with the other works of that time, Coleridge stresses that the natural world has its breathtaking and absorbing power over the human beings. "Rime of the Ancient Mariner" tells the story of supernatural events that occurred with a sailor during prolonged swimming. He talks about it a little bit ...

Classic English Literature

The ‘Lyrical Ballads’ is a combined work of William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, published in the year 1789, which can be referred to as an autobiography, a philosophical work, and also a literary criticism. The fundamental principles presented in this work is the creative imagination of both the authors. The poetic principles that Wordsworth had presented in the ‘Preface’ of the 1800 edition of Lyrical Ballads essentially denounce a kind of revolution with respect to the critical notions concerning the lyrical language, the subject matter of the poetry, and also the role played by the poet. Dismissing the ...