The Old Woman 

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
Poem:

As a white candle
    In a holy place, 
So is the beauty
    Of an aged face.

As the spent radiance
    Of the winter sun, 
So is a woman
    With her travail done.

Her brood gone from her,
    And her thoughts as still 
As the waters
    Under a ruined mill.

About the auther:

Joseph John Campbell (March 26, 1904 – October 30, 1987) was an American mythologist, writer, and lecturer, best known for his work in comparative mythology and comparative religion. His work covers many aspects of the human experience. Campbell's magnum opus is his book The Hero with a Thousand Faces (1949), in which he discusses his theory of the journey of the archetypal hero found in world mythologies. Since the book's publication, Campbell's theory has been consciously applied by a wide variety of modern writers and artists. His philosophy has been summarized by his own often repeated phrase: "Follow your bliss."


Analysis:

          The Old Woman by Joseph Campbell Portrayed a life of the old woman with all her major responsibility over and who his living her life in solitude.This poem consists of three stanzas with each stanza comparing her with three different aspect.

             In the fist stanza she is not bad compared with the purity,piousness,holiness and pees of the ambiance of the holi temple.As the white candle looks beautiful and chaste in the holi place,in the same manner she looks extremely beautiful in her old age.Here by saying that she is beautiful ,the poet wants to focus on the scene of satisfaction that can be seen on the face of the old woman. 

            In the second stanza ,she is compared with the radiance of the winter sun.Which gives us a sans of calmness and happiness in the season where in the sun is required the most along with this in the poet Wallis to justify her long prevail pout with lots and lots her up and downs life. 

           In the third stanza the comparison goes further when he compares her with the still water under the ruined mill the poet compares the stillness of the thought process as become static in nature.

           In this way the poet talks about the life of the old woman who is extremely serene in her presence.

             

Fear No More
Poem by William Shakespeare:

Poem:

Fear no more the heat o’ the sun, 

Nor the furious winter’s rages; 

Thou thy worldly task hast done, 

Home art gone, and ta’en thy wages: 

Golden lads and girls all must, 

As chimney-sweepers, come to dust. 

Fear no more the frown o’ the great; 

Thou art past the tyrant’s stroke; 

Care no more to clothe and eat; 

To thee the reed is as the oak: 

The scepter, learning, physic, must 

All follow this, and come to dust. 

Fear no more the lightning flash, 

Nor the all-dreaded thunder stone; 

Fear not slander, censure rash; 

Thou hast finished joy and moan: 

All lovers young, all lovers must 

Consign to thee, and come to dust. 

No exorciser harm thee! 

Nor no witchcraft charm thee! 

Ghost unlaid forbear thee! 

Nothing ill come near thee! 

Quiet consummation have; 

And renownèd be thy grave!

Analysis:

                Shakespeare poem "Fear No More is actually a part of his drama symbolize at appears as a song on the death of one of the characters.This poem is based on the concept of immortality of death over power every thing else .This poem is divided  in to three stanza and every one of them gives promise to the inevitability of death. 

               In the first stanza the poet says that A died person is free from the fear of extreme heat or the raging winds of strong winter or chilling winter.The people who are died after finishing their deeds on the earth and death is what you receive in return as a part of your wages.Death takes them to heaven .The poet further suggests that every human being is born with a precondition of death.irrespectively of charming boys or beautiful girls,or even poor chimney sweepers.Death is supposed to be the greatest of the levelers since inception.At the end every things turns to dust.

              In the next stanza the poet further orexis that we should not be afraid of any frant as they become helpless when we are died .We should not take care of food and clothes as they are not as important as we project them to be and after death.There is nothing like Superior or inferior feeling for a dead man everything is the same as everybody from the king to the scholar will have to die one day and turn to deist.

              In the last stanza the poet tells us not to be afraid of lightning or cloud-burst and we should not be after afraid of any negative opinions given by anybody,because for a dead man everything seems as their elders to be neutral even the young lovers have to go to the same place as their elders did that is to death and to dust.

             This poem suggested that the ultimate reality of life is death and death is actually freedoms which is justify properly in the song by William Shakespeare. 

             

Play Review

Play Review

   "Digdarshak The Hindi Play"

         The film screening committee of department of English ,M K Bhavangar University organised screening of  this play .Thanks to all committee member for the show.The central conflict of this play is about theater vs cinema .The protagonist of the play ,the Directer,is in favor of the theater. He dislike talented actors joining film industry and cinema.We have several age old controversies in the field of art and literature.Art for the sake of art vs art for the sake of life.,this is we also show in his play.

                      Theater and cinema debate goes on . there is a "Kunstlerroman" ideas .In this play directed was highly potential to be kunstlerroman where he ends arrogant rejection of the cinema life.Theater is more difficult than cinema .The cinema is more democratic whereas theater is authoritative almost dictarial. The directer is the dictator.In this play myth of Ashwathama also represented in this play.

 

La Bella Dame Sans Merci

               La Bella Dame Sans Merci (French for "the beautiful lady without Merci ") is a ballad written by the English poet John Keats
.It exists in two versions,with minor differences between them.The original was written by Keats in 1819.he used the title of the 15th century La Bella Dame sans Merci by Alain Chartier,though the plots of the two poems are different.

Poem :

O what can ail thee, knight-at-arms, 

       Alone and palely loitering? 

The sedge has withered from the lake, 

       And no birds sing. 

O what can ail thee, knight-at-arms, 

       So haggard and so woe-begone? 

The squirrel’s granary is full, 

       And the harvest’s done. 

I see a lily on thy brow, 

       With anguish moist and fever-dew, 

And on thy cheeks a fading rose 

       Fast withereth too. 

I met a lady in the meads, 

       Full beautiful—a faery’s child, 

Her hair was long, her foot was light, 

       And her eyes were wild. 

I made a garland for her head, 

       And bracelets too, and fragrant zone; 

She looked at me as she did love, 

       And made sweet moan 

I set her on my pacing steed, 

       And nothing else saw all day long, 

For sidelong would she bend, and sing 

       A faery’s song. 

She found me roots of relish sweet, 

       And honey wild, and manna-dew, 

And sure in language strange she said— 

       ‘I love thee true’. 

She took me to her Elfin grot, 

       And there she wept and sighed full sore, 

And there I shut her wild wild eyes 

       With kisses four. 

And there she lullèd me asleep, 

       And there I dreamed—Ah! woe betide!— 

The latest dream I ever dreamt 

       On the cold hill side. 

I saw pale kings and princes too, 

       Pale warriors, death-pale were they all; 

They cried—‘La Belle Dame sans Merci 

       Thee hath in thrall!’ 

I saw their starved lips in the gloam, 

       With horrid warning gapèd wide, 

And I awoke and found me here, 

       On the cold hill’s side. 

And this is why I sojourn here, 

       Alone and palely loitering, 

Though the sedge is withered from the lake, 

       And no birds sing.

Summery:

              

                    La Bella Dame Sans Merci. This poem by John Keats which  takes about a soldier who has  suffered by the hands up a beautiful lady .This poem his written in 12th stanza which show classic the suffering of the soldier.

                In the very first stanza the soldier is question by a stranger near the river on the cold wells side where in stranger find the soldier in a pathetic condition alone and loitering aim lessly. In the second stanza the soldier farther question .the soldier on his condition where the nature is very beautiful but the night is suffering.

           

                The third stanza the stranger takes about is fever and his facial condition as he was looking expressly pale.The night stars answering the stranger about how he meet a beautiful lady in the meadows ,who  was a like a fairy child with beautiful eyes and long hair.In the next stanza he takes about how he made garlands and bracelets of roses in her love as a gift.

               In the next stanza he takes about how he made her comfortable on the stead and capt looking at her by listing to her wonderful songs.The seven stanza takes about how he thought that in her strange language .She kept on specking "I Love You" and found him roods and honey to eat.  

             Then ,she took him to the grout where in she cried and ,i made here comfortable by kissing her eyes.In the next stanza she made me sleep by singing a lullaby and that is when he saw a dream which was very dread full and found himself near the hill.

           In the next stanza the dream continues where he saw many kings and princes all most and were crring "La Bella Demsens Merci" In the eleventh stanza he found all the kings ,princes ,soldier in extremely poor condition and he was a wait a sudden shocked because of the bad dream.

         In the last stanza he said that is the reason ,why he is "Alone and palely loitering on the cold hill side".

"To the lighthouse" by Virginia Woolf.

"To The Lighthouse" by Virginia Woolf - blog task

This blog is a part of my blog task activity for the novel "To The Light house" by Virginia Woolf in Modernist literature

 

1)In this novel "To the light house" by Virginia Woolf stream of consciousness is very well used .By using this technique,she explain that how our relationship are so complicated and this technique is used that how we think and how we make simple and formal feeling multifarious. In this novel Virginia Woolf presents psychology of a familiar relationships and internal struggle about everything. This phrase used  William James in his Principle of perceptions,thought,and feeling in the waking mind .

2)Yes I agree that "The novel is a both a critique and tribute to the enduring power of Mrs.Ramsay."

We can say about Mrs Ramsay tribute as everyone misses her after her death,and for females her behavior is not better.Desire to express critique of Mrs Ramsay's essence (as an ideal wife and mother) in the painting.We can compare Mrs.Ramsay with Indian woman who always fulfills the demands of husband and do the work through out the whole day in home and take care about her child.And we can read Mrs. Ramsay in context of idea of ideal Indian woman (The Sanskrit sloka)

" Karyeshu dasi, Karaneshu manthri; Bhojeshu mata, Shayaneshu rambha; Kshamayeshu dharithri, Roopeshu lakshmi; Satkarma yukta, Kuladharma pathni"

3)Many Symbols can be found in the novel "To the light ".Lighthouse is the symbol in the novel and also in this novel both female character Mrs.Ramsay and Lily briscoe are symbolized .And also in this novel woman can't write or paint .Mrs.Ramsay also showed path to Lily Briscoe at the novel also tell this sentence "Closed  the door and open the window".

5)A kunstlerron novel it means "artist's novel " in English is a narrative about an artist's growth to maturity .In the lighthouse Lily's character and the novel itself is a struggle of an artist.In this novel the character of lily makes it 'Kunstlerron' novel.

 

7)The novel is more difficult than the movie ,both words and screen have its own advantages but words are more powerful than the screen.screening movie is restricted the power of imagination.Novel has poetic charm which movie can't provide to reader and audience. Sickvance of the film is very melodramatic ,and both end are different dialogue,end of the film dialogue is Lily Briscoe :"You are fool" , ""Closed  the door and open the window".But end of the novel there:"Yes , she thought ,laying down her brush in extreme fatigue,I have had my vision".