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.
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.
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