ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Charles Lamb published his poem “The Old Familiar Faces” in the 1798 collection “ Blank Verse” written in collaboration with Charles Lloyd. This was the son of the founder of Lloyds Bank and had been educated by a private tutor with the idea that he would work at his father’s bank.

Detailed explanation-2: -In ‘The Old Familiar Faces’, Charles Lamb talks about his old friends, family members, and his only “love” of life. In this poem, Lamb presents a list of “old familiar faces” whom he misses the most. Firstly, he misses his childhood days. His playmates and “joyful school-days” all are gone.

Detailed explanation-3: -“The Old Familiar Faces” (1789) remains his best-known poem, although “On an Infant Dying As Soon As It Was Born” (1828) is his finest poetic achievement. In 1807 Lamb and his sister published Tales from Shakespear, a retelling of the plays for children, and in 1809 they published Mrs.

Detailed explanation-4: -A reference to Charles Lamb’s haunting personal poem about nostalgia for an unreachable past and the harsh costs of experience, “The Old Familiar Faces” (1798).

Detailed explanation-5: -Old Familiar Faces is a poem that laments the loss of all friends. “All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.” This allusion is a direct indicator that soon all of Frankenstein’s “old familiar faces” will be dead.