The Eagle

                                                            The Eagle

                                                                                     By – Lord Tennyson

                               The Eagle is a poem expressing the Eagle's altitude at which the Eagle flays along with it's extreme amount of confidence and it's reach at the top. A very simple poem but extremely complex in terms of it's theme and it's plot.

                    This poem comprises of to stanzas with three lines each. In the very first stanza the poet personifies. The Eagle by use in the word or the pronoun “ He” letter on in the first lien the word “ hands” is used which further personifies the Eagle. In the second line it is shown closer to the sun from where everything looks like a miniature.

               In the second stanza the sea underneath looks as if it is wrinkled and crawling and from that night is seeks it's prey and as soon as at locates the prey it st-rye like thunderbolt and goes to the top again.

                 Through this poem Lord Tennyson wishes to put inf rent of us. The magnanimity of the Eagle by project it has a human to the readers.

I love all beauteous things

                                          I love all beauteous things

                                                                                         By – Robert Bridges

Poet Introduction : -

              Robert Seymour Bridges ( 1844 – 1930 ) was a British poet. He was educated at Eton college and corpus christi collage , Oxford. He was an English poet laureate from 1913. Bridges was born in Walmer and he married in 1884.

Poetry Introduction : -

              This poem talks about hoe the human beings have started ignoring. What is made for them. According to the poet, God has gifted humans with this beautiful world, but we don't have time to appreciated. We are always raining after things which are momentary.

Analysis : -

      In the first stanza, the poet says that, he is in love with all the beautiful things in the world.And he is always looking foreword towards. According all the things that are created by God. But most of us do not find time to even have a look. At the beautiful things created by God.

       In the second stanza the poet himself besides to makes something and wishes to enjoy every moments. He does not worry about whether it will have any significance tomorrow or not. It mite seem that it will turn out to be a senseless creation letter on because poet believe that it is all about the process and not the product. According to the poet beauty lies in the minute details.

Conclusion : -

        The poet through this poem wants us to represent the creation of God and enjoy it's being. In this poem ABCCB rhyming scheme used.

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.

The slave's dream

                             
                                           The Slave's dream
                                                                            
                                                                          By – H. W. Longfellow
Poet Introduction : -

         H.W. Longfellow ( 1807 – 1882 ) was an American poet and educator. He was studied in Cambridge university of U.S. Longfellow was born in Portland.

Poetry Introduction : -

        The slave's dream is a beautiful poem by H.W. Longfellow. Which depicts the poet's support to abolish slavery. This poem was one of eight poems include in a book entitled “ poems on slavery that” that Longfellow published in 1842. Although Longfellow is much better known for happier and more inspirational poetry.

Analysis : -

       This is a poem about a slave and the circumstances that he goes through in a foreign land. The slave is portrayed physically at a rise filed because of extreme tiredness. He falls flat on the ground and he starts drinking about his native land. The phrases “ Ungathered rise” and sickle show that he fell on the land while working because of extreme weakness. His hair ware braid in sand he was almost in the shadow of his native land.
 
   The second stanza the dream takes over. The realistic situation and he goes imaginatively in the land of his dream where the loudly Niger river flows and he again started feeling as if he was a king.

       In the third stanza the dream further extend into his family as he start missing his “ Dark eyed queen” and his children and the dream had such intensity that the eye drops started foaling on sand.

          In the fourth stanza he unlike his real situation starts seeing him self as a free man because we can see him riding the horse at raped speed and enjoying the ride.

             In the fifth stanza he is shown foaling the flamingos around the tamarind field. While going through same. He in his subconscious start viewing his “ caffrehuts”.

       The next stanza is a sequential one where in he Liston to the lion's roar, the Hyman's scream. The noise of the crushing reeds and the victorious sound of drums.

          In the seven stanza talks about the forest and the desert and how he feels libraped in his native land.

          The last stanza comes back to the physical condition of the slave. Who is lying on the filed absolutely sensation less because he does not even feel the whip of the driver or the burning heat of the day. We can see that his soul has attained freedom. His body in real life was never allowed to be free but God made him free from the Bard wires of mortality.

Conclusion : -

          The last stanza of the poem shows liberation as the only means of freedom for the slaves. The last stanza it is very touching to hard slaves achieve the dream. He will not feel the pain of the whip and burning heat of the day, his spirit is finally realized free from his haggard body.

        The Rhyming is ABCBDB. The figures of speech is climax used in this poem.

La belle dame sans merci

                          La belle dame sans merci

                                                                               - By John Keats

Poet Introduction : -

      John Keats ( 1795 – 1821 ) was studied in king's collage of London. He was very well known English romantic poet. He wrote many odes. He was one of the main figure of the second generation of romantic poet's along with Lord Byron.

Poetry Introduction : -

  La Belle Dame sans mercy means the beautiful lady without mercy / pity. This poem written in 1819 and published the next year in a form slightly different from the one here. Which talks about a soldier. Who has Staffard by the hands of beautiful lady. This poem is written in 12 stanzas . Which showcases the suffering of the soldier.

Analysis : -

     In the very first stanza the soldier is questioned by a stranger near the river on the cold hill's side. Where in the stranger finds the soldier in a pathetic condition alone an loitering aimlessly and the second stanza, the stranger further questions the soldier on his condition. Where the nature is very beautiful but the knight is suffering.

     The third stanza the stranger talks about his fever and his facial condition. As he was looking extremely pale.

        The knight starts answering the stranger about how he met a beautiful lady in the meadows. How was like a fairy's child with beautiful eyes and long hair.

     In the next stanza he talk about how he maid garlands and bracelets of roses in her love as a gift.

        In the six stanza , he talks about how he met her comfortable on the steed and kept looking at her. By listening to her wonderful songs.

    In the seven stanza talks about how he thought that in strange language she kept on speaking I love you and found him roots and honey to eat.

        Then she took him to the where in she cried and I made her comfortable by kissing her eyes.

     In the nine stanza , she made me sleep by singing a lullaby and that is when he saw a dream which was very dream full and found himself near the hill.

   In the next stanza the dream continues where he saw many kings and princes all most dead and were crying “ La belle dame sans merci”.

      In the eleventh stanza he found all the kings, princes, soldiers in extremely poor condition and he was awake all of a sudden. Almost shocked because of the bad dream.

          In the last stanza he says that , that is the reason why he is alone and palely loitering on the cold hill's cold .

Conclusion : -
          The last stanza of the poem shows liberation as the only means of freedom for the slave. For slaves, ultimately it is only death in which they will find solace, for they can dream but due to their helpless state cannot achieve their dreams. It is very touching to read the last stanza he will not feel the pain of the whip and the burning heat as his spirit is finally released free from his haggard body.

How much land does a man need ?

                                  How much land       does a man need ?


              Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy ( 1828 – 1910 ) was a Russian writer who primarily wrote novels and short stories. Later in life, he also wrote plays and essays. His two most famous works , “The novels war”and “peace and Anna Karenina” are acknowledged as two of the greatest novels of all time and pinnacle of realist fiction. Tolstoy is equally known for his complicated and paradoxical person and for his extreme moralistic and ascetic views, which he adopted after a moral crisis and spiritual awakening in the 1870s after which he also became noted as a moral thinker and social reformer.

* Pakhom jeopardizes losing everything because of more greed.
        This particular story revolves around the charactor name Pakhom and his greed. It revolves around the theme of leading to your own demise. Two sisters are talking to each other from which one resides in the town where as the other in the village. The one who state in the village is the wife of Pakhom and she seemed to be happy and contended with her life. But her husband is dissatisfied with his life. Finally he dicides to buy some land and saw the seeds in his own land and reap the benefits. After some time when he starts earning good, he wants more. Then once he meet with a peasant , that Peasant talked about the land which is very cheap as good as dirt cheap near Volga. Pakhom gets interested in going there and buying some land for his own.

            The land that the visitor was talking about belong to the Bashkirs. They were very kind hearted people who would give him as much land as he wants and all they expected was good gifts is return. Pakhom finally decides to go there along with his family and decides to buy some gifts for Bashkirs. He and his family reach their where in they meet the Bashkirs and flood them with a lot of gifts. All of them are very happy and they decide to gave land as much as he wants. Chief agrees for the deal and tells him to start walking. The land that he might cover before the sunset would be signed under the deed. The end of the story becomes very tragic as Pakhom tries to over rich and causes his own demise.

                  The moral of the story is that one should not be to ambitious and dissatisfied with whatever one. Containment is what is required to be happy. The story is in a way didactic in nature and shows that exstive desire may lead to one's own down fall.

                               “ Lalach buri bala hai”

                             “ Santosi nar sada sukhi”.

A True story

                                                                      A True story

           “ A True story” is written by Mark Twain ( 1825 – 1910). His real name is Samuel Langhorne Clemens. He is born in Floridas in the united states. He becomes one of America's most widely read authors. His work show a penetrating insight into contemporary society. He seems to be very concerned for human suffering. His best known works are “ The adventures of Tom sawyer”, “ The adventures Huckleberry finn” etc.

          In this story two characters are major Master – C and Aunt Rachel. Master – c is narrator. Aunt Rachel was a servant because she was black woman.Narrator asks some questions and then Aunt Rachel said about her happy life and to share her secret with him. She said that she had a lots of trouble in her life. She had a loving and faithful husband and seven children but unfortunately her husband and six children were sold in an auction. Then her last seven son Henry was also sold, she try to saved him, but she can't but before that he said his mother that he would buy freedom for her. As time passed she got aged , though she become the slave of colonel's house. But one day she met her seventh son Henry in one party at colonel's home. Henery become a soldier.

              So, here Mark Twain shows the conndition of Negro people. Writer draws a picture of slavery in south America before it is abolished. Black people belived that they were born to be slave, because some of the colouerd people tried to get that position in society. So , we can say that this story is about one Negro woman's pain and suffering, because at that time Negro slave were sold and made to live in inhuman conditions. And the writer underlines the women 's pathetic condition and several problems in their life.

              Here i want to add some my views regarding this story that, here we find the main thing is power and culture. American white people ruled on black negro people. We can see that how they were marginalized people. Here we can apply the term colonialism.Black people known as colonized people . Black women became double marginalized in society. Because one side white ruled , and other side men always dominant in society. So in cultural studies Gayatri chakravarty Spivak wrote one beautiful work “Can Subaltern Speak?” White people always behave like “ Self and other” with black people.