"From the Amoretti" sonnet is written by Edmund Spenser. Who was an English poet and he was Known for his well written poem 'Faerie Queene". This sonnet was written in 16th century which included 89 sonnets.
Poem:
One day I wrote her name upon the strand,
But came the waves and washed it away:
Again I write it with a second hand,
But came the tide, and made my pains his prey.
Vain man, said she, that doest in vain assay,
A mortal thing so to immortalize,
For I myself shall like to this decay,
And eek my name be wiped out likewise.
Not so, (quod I) let baser things devise
To die in dust, but you shall live by fame:
My verse, your virtues rare shall eternize,
And in the heavens write your glorious name.
Where whenas death shall all the world subdue,
Our love shall live, and later life renew.
Analysis:
In the first few line of the poem the poet talks about the affects that he took to mortalise name of his beloved. One day he started writing his beloveds name upon the strand but waves became his enemy and as he write name of his beloved upon the strand, it washed away his beloved name. Still after the first filer he did not give up and again try write her name but once again the tide come and wash did away this pain has very well expressed in the line by the poet which is......
But came the tide, and made my pains his prey.
Vain man, said she, that doest in vain assay,
A mortal thing so to immortalize,
For I myself shall like to this decay,
And eek my name be wiped out likewise.
In the next lines the poet talks about effects to mortalise name of his beloved may be his beloved watching him from some were and she expresses her sorrow or her lover's filer. The poet an expresses his feeling because he is scad now as the way nature destroyed out his beloved name. His fear is that her name also can be "wiped out likewise".
In the last few lines of the poem the poet expresses his fear and he still will continue to remembered name of his beloved. he consoled his beloved by saying that she may 'died in dust' but she will live by fame. She would be in the memory by her virtues and she would live in verse even after of the death. When death will sub due entire world there love shall live. This how the poet describers the unstoppable effects a lover to mortalise name of his beloved.
"La Belle Dame sans 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 Belle Dame sans Mercy by Alain Chartier, though the plots of the two poems are different.The poem is considered an English classic, stereotypical of other of
Keats' works.
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 fairy’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
Hath thee 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.
Analysis:
"La Belle Dame sans Merci" is a ballad, a
medieval genre revived by the romantic poets. Keats uses the so-called
ballad stanza, a quatrain in alternating iambic tetrameter and trimeter
lines. The shortening of the fourth line in each stanza of Keats' poem
makes the stanza seem a self-contained unit, gives the ballad a
deliberate and slow movement, and is pleasing to the ear. Keats uses a
number of the stylistic characteristics of the ballad, such as
simplicity of language, repetition, and absence of details; like some of
the old ballads, it deals with the supernatural. Keats' economical
manner of telling a story in "La Belle Dame sans Merci" is the direct
opposite of his lavish manner in The Eve of St. Agnes. Part of the fascination exerted by the poem comes from Keats' use of understatement.
Keats sets his simple story of love and death in a
bleak wintry landscape that is appropriate to it: "The sedge has
wither'd from the lake / And no birds sing!" The repetition of these two
lines, with minor variations, as the concluding lines of the poem
emphasizes the fate of the unfortunate knight and neatly encloses the
poem in a frame by bringing it back to its beginning.
In keeping with the ballad tradition, Keats does
not identify his questioner, or the knight, or the destructively
beautiful lady. What Keats does not include in his poem contributes as
much to it in arousing the reader's imagination as what he puts into it.
La belle dame sans merci, the beautiful lady without pity, is a femme fatale, a
Circelike figure who attracts lovers only to destroy them by her
supernatural powers. She destroys because it is her nature to destroy.
Keats could have found patterns for his "faery's child" in folk
mythology, classical literature, Renaissance poetry, or the medieval
ballad. With a few skillful touches, he creates a woman who is at once
beautiful, erotically attractive, fascinating, and deadly.
Some readers see the poem as Keats' personal
rebellion against the pains of love. In his letters and in some of his
poems, he reveals that he did experience the pains, as well as the
pleasures, of love and that he resented the pains, particularly the loss
of freedom that came with falling in love. However, the ballad is a
very objective form, and it may be best to read "La Belle Dame sans
Merci" as pure story and no more. How Keats felt about his love for
Fanny Brawne we can discover in the several poems he addressed to her,
as well as in his letters.
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Ans -1
“I like following thoughts from this all video……
Video – 1: The term existentialism is applied by many great
thinker and writer like, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Dostoyevsky, Sartre, Beauvoir,
Kafka etc…they all share one basic belief that philosophical thing is existing
begin with each thinking subject like individual. Existentialism is triangle of
three key word that is, 1) Individuality 2) passion and 3) freedom. In this
video one interesting quote by Camus that “believe
in God is a philosophical suicide”. Because when you fully devote yourself
towards God, you realize that your lives is become absurd and also despair.
This idea is break down by existentialism because it is about freedom,
individuality and also passion.
Video – 2:This video
talks about Albert Camus view regarding matter of suicide. For Camus suicide is
an individual act. For this he gave one interesting quote “An elegant suicide is the ultimate work of art”. He also says that
‘we are consent, here a dark side with the relationship between individual
thought and suicide’. “Being too thing is beginning to undermine”. When start
to think about absurdity of life, you feel like a stranger.
Video – 3: This video is talk about Philosophical suicide.
The notion of philosophical suicide was what makes us fall in love. Here also
some argument about absurdity of life. It is also says that ‘if it is admitted
the absurd is the contrary of hope, it is seen the existential thought process
of the absurd but proves that only to dispel it’.
Video – 4: In this video talk about Dadaism and Nihilism.
Dadaism is somehow connecting with the Nihilism. Dadaism is the quest for
change. Dadaism means to make yourself free from all values. This movement also
becomes visual arts literature and anti art cultural work. In this video one
quote is there that is, “Dadaism and Nihilism is nothing to do each other both
are fading up everybody life and its ordinary value and that are where the
similarity”. We also see that Dadaism and existentialism both are reaction to
the war.
Video – 5: Existentialism was response to emptiness because
after Second World War, despair and absurdity lingered to every corner of every
individual. Existentialism holds some idea like absurdity, anxiety and despair.
Existentialism is a gloomy philosophy because it is become famous after Second
World War. At that time people ‘believe in god, finding a truth that is true
for you, judge every value and choose your meaning in life. You should take
responsibility and except the consequence of it’.
Video – 6: Existentialism and Nihilism both are different
from each other. Existentialism is not totally negative term, while Nihilism is
negative term. Both are see the absurdity of the life but at the end both reach
at different conclusion. Existentialism is all about live with facts and
Nihilism is about absurdity of life.
Video – 7: Existentialism movement arose in 19th
century in Europe. Soren Kegaard and
Friedrich Nietzsche are called
father of existentialism. In 20th century after world war second we
see the root of existentialism. Sartre’s famous statement about existentialism
is that “existence precedes essence”. Robert Solomon in his work “Able to existentialism”says that “existentialism is an attitude that
recognizes the irresolvable confusion of the human world yet resists the all
too human temptation to resolve the confusion by grasping toward whatever
appears or can be made to appear firm or familiar….. The existential attitude
begins with a disoriented individual facing a confused world that he cannot
accept”.
Video – 8: Nietzsche says that making up over own rules that
is existentialism. Here in this video give example of superman, normally
superman do nice things, but Nietzsche supermen do whatever he wants.
Existentialism is stand for own self. One can do whatever he or she wants.
Video -9: Existentialism is about individuality. It apple
with our mind and understand the life more deeply. It also makes apple with our
hart and Saul which experience of life more deeply. Existentialism is says
about what I am. It recognizes the human strength as well as human fall and
weakness. Existentialism affects how we think about things. It also helps us
feel like a laughing like child, a serious intellectual, a strom on the
horizon, a blossoming like a flower. It also teaches us life is a much broader
way. Existentialism teaches us suffering is not our enemy, because sometime we
learn from more suffering so we think that suffering is our enemy.
Video – 10:In 20th
century Jean Paul Sartre has question for essence and also question that what
is exist first. So we can say that “existence precedes essence”. Our essence
existence before we born, which gives us purpose to living.Existentialist says that all thing gives
meaning to the life.
Ans- 2: I like video “Let us
introduce Existentialism again” and 8 “Explain like I’m five”the most. Video 7 gives us whole knowledge
about existentialism. When we not get proper meaning of existentialism than
that video gives us proper explanation about whole philosophy. Video 8 ‘Explain
like I’m five’, it explains very easily this term. It gives simply meaning of
existentialism.
Ans – 3: I enjoy flip learning. It
is an experimental key to learn. Flip learning is the best specimen to practice
to listen carefully. It helps me understand existentialism in a batter way. It
also improves my listing and writing skill. Instead of traditional teaching
through the board or chock stick this is something new to experiment for the
student learning.
On 8th August 2017 Film screening committee of
Department of English organized the screening of one act Hindi play named
“Digdarshak”, which was performed in eNatya Shoth 2017. It was one act play
written by Priyam Jani and directed by Rishit Jhaveri. This play portrait main
conflict between theater and cinema.
We have
seen two main characters in this play one was Digdarshak himself and anther was
his student (actor). This entire play performed in flashback technique. The
main thing of this play was Director tainted his student for his best acting.
Director of this play dedicates his entire life to this theater and not gave
much time to their family. He also wants his students gave top priority to this
theater than their home.
We have see many theme in this play like, (1)theater v/s cinema. In this play we have see that director strongly
supporter of the theater and actor is supporter of cinema. In this play we see
that how actor Use Theater as prop for enters in the cinema so Director was
disappointed from the actor. (2)Sacrifice for theater. We have seen in
this play Director of this play sacrifice his entire life for theater. (3) Theater v/s Family. In this play we
have seen that director’s top priority is the theater rather than their family.
In the beginning of this play Myth of Ashwatthama also symbolically
represents.
(1)Do you agree: "The novel is
both the tribute and critique of Mrs. Ramsay"? Can we read Mrs. R in
context of the idea of Ideal Indian Woman
Answer.Yes, I agree for that the novel is tribute and critique of Mrs. Ramsay
because from the very beginning of the novel we find that Mrs. Ramsay is very
caring mother as well as housewife also. She always won’t to be perfect in her
work like knitting as well as caring of child or guest. She is invested in the
importance of marriage between a man and a woman; it clearly sees the flaws in
her own marriage also. She always pamper ego of her husband Mr. Ramsay. It also
reflect Indian Ideal woman who obey her husband in every situation. Lily
Briscoe is totally opposite of Mrs. Ramsay. From the perspective of her we can say that
Mrs. Ramsay’s behavior is not natural and it is also image of patriarchal society.
“Painting her, lily makes Mrs. Ramsay and James in to a purple triangle,
an equivalent to Mrs. Ramsays own sense of herself when invisible to other as a
darkness wedge shaped core of darkness”.
So we can say
that her painting says her feeling about Mrs. Ramsay. Her painting also
symbolized woman’s struggle in patriarchal society. We can also read Mrs.
Ramsay in the context of Indian ideal woman. This Sanskrit sloka
Is totally regarded with the character of Mrs. Ramsay.
(3) Considering symbolically, does the Lighthouse stand for Mrs. Ramsay or
the narrator (Virginia Woolf herself who is categorically represented by
Lily)? (Key: Take help from the presentation on Symbolism to connect
Mrs. Caroline Ramsay with Lighthouse. Secondly, the narrator / author
cannot fully disappear from the novel and thus the stoicism of Lily to
paint and thus prove that she can paint, is symbolically presented in
stoicism of Lighthouse. Read 'lighthouse' symbol from presentation slide
with this insight to connect lighthouse with the narrator.
The symbol lighthouse is stand for
Mrs. Ramsay. Mrs. Ramsay sees the lighthouse as source of comfort and also
stability even though it is in the distance.
“Sure enough, coming regularly across the wave was the light of the
lighthouse.”
To mrs. Ramsay, the predictability of the
lighthouse is most important, implying that truth lies in the cycles that
govern life lighthouse stands alone and tall in both light as well as darkness.
It is symbolized strength, guidance and safe harbor; it is also spiritual
hermit guiding all those who are traveling by sea. In the same manner Mrs.
Ramsay is stands strong infruent of her family like lighthouse. She was
represented as a caring homemaker who shows the reality of the Woolf.
(7) You have compared the 'beginning' and the 'ending' of the novel and the
film adaptation of the novel directed by Colin Gregg (you can see it
again in the embedded video below this). Do you think that the novel is
more poignant than the movie? If yes, do you ascribe the fact that the
power of words is much greater than that of the screen / visuals?
Novel start with the interesting
dialogue between James and Mrs. Ramsay. It is more pleasurable than the movie.
The reading novel is giving more charm than the watching film. The starting of
the novel is effective like we enter in the mind of the character. In the
beginning of the movie we find some introduction of character. It is not
pleasurable. In the end of the novel is dialogue by Lily Briscoe
“Yes, she thought laying down
her brush in extreme fatigue, I have had my vision”.
It reflects that she has got vision what she wants. At the end of the
novel we find that the confusion of Lily Briscoe. It has very well said by the
word in the novel and in the end of the movie it has described by visual effect
of sound and also light. It not give more charm which given by reading novel.
We see dialogues of Lily Briscoe in the end of the movie is
“Dearest Briscoe
you are a fool”.
This dialogues shows Lily’s vision towards Mrs. Ramsay what she want. So
I think that the novel is more poignant than the movie because power of the word
is much greater than that of the visual. When we read the novel it gives us
some kind of the feeling but it was same kind of he feeling not give movie.
(5)What do you understand by the German term 'Künstlerroman'? How can you justify that 'To The Lighthouse' is 'Künstlerroman' novel?
Kunstlerroman is German term. It is an
artistic novel detailing the artist’s growth to maturity. The Kunstlerroman is
a type of a novel where the protagonist undergoes an education. This novel is
deal with the youth and development of an individual who becomes a painter,
musician or poet. This thing we justify with the character of Lily Briscoe. Kunstlerroman
novel deals with ‘arrogant rejection of the commonplace life. In this novel the
character of Lily Briscoe makes it Kunstlerroman novel. She is developing her
skill as painting in this novel. She always find something missing in her
painting but at the last of the novel she find vision in her painting. So it is
Kunstlerroman novel.
(8)How do you interpret the last line of the novel with reference to the ending of the film.
The last line of the novel is "It was done; it was finished. Yes, she thought, laying down her brush in extreme fatigue, I have had my vision". it is
signified vision of Lily Briscoe what she gets. At the end of the novel she
found vision through her painting of Mrs. Ramsay and her son James and also we
shows an ideal housewife in this painting and her dilemma about being ideal
woman has also solved. Her blurred vision became very clear infruent of her.
In the movie last line is “Dearest Briscoe, you are a fool”. In the
movie we see Lily’s confusion about ideal woman. It is very clear at the end of
the movie that she get her vision very clear about what she wants. When we
connect both the dialogue we can understand it very clearly
“Dearest Briscoe, you are a
fool. I have had my vision”.
