The old woman

                                                The old woman

                                                                          By - Joseph Campbell


Poet Introduction : -

                    Joseph Campbell was ( 1904 – 1987) an American mythologist, writer and lecturer, best known for his work in comparative mythology and comparative religion. His work is vast covering many aspects of the human experience.

Poetry Introduction : -

         This poem is a jam of simplicity. Campbell has very finely praised the beauty of an old lady. It's very easy to see beauty in young women but it needs understanding and imagination to see the beauty of old age. Here the poet skillfully portrays a life of the old woman with all her major responsibility over and who is living her life in solitude. This poem consists of three stanza with each stanza comparing her with three different aspects.

Analysis : -

                       In the first stanza she is compared with the purity, piousness, holiness and peace of the ambiance of theology temple. As the white candal looks beautiful and chaste in the manner she look extremely beautiful in her old age. Here by say rang that she beautiful the poet wants to focus on he sense of satisfaction. That can be see on the face of the old woman.

           In the second stanza she is compared with the radiance of the winter sun. Which gives up as sanes of calmness and happiness in the season. Where in sun is required the most along with this the poet wishes to justify, her long journey of life and her long travel with lost and lost of ups and down in life.

        In the third stanza the comparison go is further when he compares her with the still water under the ruined mill.the poet compared the stillness of thought of the old woman alone with if her thought process as become static in nature.

Conclusion : -

        By concluding the poem we can say the poet has appropriately compared all the three elements. In this way the poet talks about the life of an old woman who is extremely s creme in her presents. In this poem simile figures of s peach used well.