Death be not proud

                                     Death be not proud

John Donne is equally known for his holly sonnets as his known for his love poem. His holy sonnets deal with serious theme and Issus related to human existence. The present sonnet of Donne deals with the theme of death. Generally every human beings afraid of death but the poet hear presents the picture of death in all to gather different way the attempt of the poem is to reduce fear of death and to convince the readers that death is a normal incident of life just like any other incident in life.

The sonnet opens with the poet’s address to the death that there is no need for death to be proud. Some people considered death powerful and dreadful but the poet considered in neither mighty nor dangerous. The poet challenges death saying that it can not kill him. Truly speaking those people do not die whom death thinks that it has killed. The poet believed that the picture of death is nothing but rest and sleep. If death provides rest and sleep, pleasure is to be derived out of it.

The poet opines that one need not be afraid of death because even the beast of people have sooner or later died. To poet death is nothing except rest to body and soul going to in new body. The poet considered death slave of fate, chance, kings and desperate men the mining is a person dies only when fate decides. Or chans decides is death. Sometimes a person dies only when king decides his death as a punishment, sometime death has to come when a men in distress invites death – suicide. The poet mention that there are three places where death lives in poison, war and sickness. In other words death comes to end individual because of such reasons. The poet does a comparison between sleep caused by death caused by charms of the mother, he believes that sleep caused by mothers charms his more enjoyable than the sleep caused by death because it’s comes like a sudden stroke there is no need for death to be proud, because death s just a small sleep and after that sleep a person gets a new form, new life, to live form a long time . the poet concludes this sonnet with a statement that death will be no more death it self will die.

The Flea

                                            The Flea

The Flea is a remarkable metaphysical poem of John Donne. He makes use of a biological image of the flea for the expression of the theme of love. It is an exceptional image to deal with the theme of love Done avoids the use of traditional images and brings the image of the flea to deal with love the poem is addressed by the lover of his beloved the lover expresses love, proposes to her and she refuses it because of her sense of sin, shame and maidenhood. She does not respond to her lover because she considered it a matter of sin and shame it is because of her refusal that the lover gives example of the flea, the flea has first suck his blood, now it’s sucks her blood, so their bloods have mingled in that flea it is neither sin nor shame. The lover tries to convince her that they are more then married in the living walls of that flea, that flea is now their marriage bed and marriage church.

Listening to such a speech of the lover, the lady tries to killed that flea and again the lover trays to convince her not to killed that flea he request her not to make her nails purpled in the blood of that flea the reason is, it will be a sin of killing three lives – life of that flea, life of the lover and killing herself. The lover wants her not to commit it dangerous sin of self murder she does not followed the request of that lover and kills the flea.

The third stanza of the poem is given to the lovers attempt to convince her that all her fears are ground less, both because one in that flea and yet it was not a sin or shame, the same way if she accepts his proposal, it will not be sin or shame. The lover is of the opinion that by accepting his proposal, she will bring honor to herself. The lover wants’ her to realized that accepting proposal is not the lost of honor on the contrary it brings honor to a woman, so she should part with her fear, sense of sin and shame.

Youngster's views about marriage

                                 Hello everyone this is the time of marriage season , most of all people are busy into the enjoy the weddings. But many youngsters like me try to avoid to attend various function likes marriages ,  gatherings  etc specially of relatives, because in friends’ function we have no problems. So it is not means that youngsters don’t like to marry and don’t like their relatives but the main problem is that in these type of functions all relatives ask same question “ Sadi kab ker rahe ho”? so recently I fond one video on FB which is shared by my friend komal  which is very interesting. This video is about sarcastic remarks on Dear Relatives and society.

prayer Before Birth

                                  Prayer Before Birth

This poem ‘Prayer Before Birth’ is about a child who prays to God he is now in the womb of the mother, before falling the world he pray to God that protect him from every bad thing. He pray God in different thing.

In the first lines of the first stanza the unborn child says “ Hear me, I am not yet born’.

In the first stanza unborn child prays to God and also complying about such thing which how present in the world. He express his fear about ‘ Blood sulking Bat’ and he says that some time that ‘chores’ it’s outer appearance is danger and also his acts and behaviors also dangerous.

In the second stanza he consoles God and express his fear about ‘ Tall walls’ it’s considered the strong rules and regulation of the society. Which stand as a wall between people and also from ‘wise lies’ which is spoken by cruel persons.

In the third stanza he prays God to provide him water to purify his sins, grass, grow for him, tree talk with him, sky guide him and sing for him and also the birds and light.

In the forth stanza he ask ‘ forgiveness’ for his sins. And also for his bad words and thoughts and ask forgive for what will happened because of him.

In fifth stanza he prays God ‘ To rehears’ him about parts that he has to play and action the ‘Lectures’ of elder people to because moral person. Officer person hector him and when ‘Desert calls him a doom, Beggar refuses his gift and when his children curse him’.

In the next stanza he talks about the people who become god ‘ who is a beast’ because he trying to replaced the god which thing impossible. So he prays to save me from those people.

In the next stanza he ask god for give me strength to face those people whose humanity is freeze. And also whose people who drag me badly and also those who are corrupt people.

So in this poem the unborn child prays to god about his present and future. He don’t want to corrupt his soul, he don’t to some people around her with negative views.

Thus this poem reflect the picture of the present corrupted world and nature of the people who effected on this unborn child.

Ode on Solitude

                                    Ode on Solitude

This poem ‘ Ode on solitude’ wrote when Pope was 12 years old. This poem sets in very peace mood and relaxed to use make calm. This poem about the solitude life of man.

‘Ode on solitude’ by Alexcander Pope. Initially in the poem the poet talks about the lonely life of farmer. We generally believed that the life of farmer is unfortunate one because he has to live in the far away. But Pope thinks that farmer’s life is fortunate one because he get the chance to breath in the “Native air” and opportunity to live in “Mother land”.

The same emphasis that how lucky farmers are that in second stanza that farmers get to eat bread from his own field “ flocks supply farmers attire in summer, when sunlight an noises by his heat, the treed of farm give shade to farmers. 

Especially society people beloved that solitude life is curse but Pope thinks that solitude life is a “bliss”. He emphasis in third stanza that a farmer can take the pressures of pure air and food, he can stay close to nature which provides him peace to mind. But we people Struggle a lot to earn bread and survive in modern life. People of city struggle a lot yet they do not get to end and drink healthy food and water.

While people who close to nature especially farmers can get the ‘sound sleep’ most important is they do not loss there innocence to contrast with people who became very much practical without innocence and emotions. The poet considered solitude life with the bliss that people who live this type of life do not have to care about what society think for him. They do not need to follow any tradition like rituals set by society. They only care for themselves and can live happy, satisfied and careless close to nature life.

Therefore in the last lines that poet urges to god that late him leave

‘Unseen and unknown’

‘Thus unlamented let me die

Steal from the world and not a stone

Tell where I lie’

In these above lines the poet talks about the way that man live solitude life that also at the end of the life they wanted the death which is unknown from the society.

From the Amoretti

                                   From the Amoretti

This is a poem of the 89 sonnets of Faerie Queen. This is 75th sonnet about love and desire. Spencer wrote as a part of courtship of his second wife Elizabeth Boyle. 

In the very first few lines the poet talks about the efforts that he took to moralize the name of his beloved.

One fine day he started writing his beloved’s name upon the strand but waves became his enemies as it washed the name of his beloved.

Still after the first frailer he did not gave up and again tried to write her beloved’s name but once again tide come and washed it away. The pain has very well express in the line by the poem,

         “But the tide came and made my pains his prey”. 

In the next few lines the poet talks about the efforts that moralize his beloved’s name. His beloved may watching him from somewhere and expresses her sorrow on all her lover’s failure.

The poet expresses the feeling because he was scared that as a way that nature wiped out the name of beloved his fear is that his name can be wiped out likewise.

In the last lines of the poem the poet expressed his fear and he still will continued his efforts to eternize the name of his beloved. And consoles her by saying that the she many “ die in dust” but she will live by fame. She would be in the memory by her virtue she will live in verse even after death. Death will subdue the entire world. That poet expressed all his feeling of love for his beloved.

Thus in this poem the poet do many efforts to mortalize his beloved name and remember her long time.

Mending Wall by Robert Frost

                                     Mending Wall

“ Mending wall” is philosophical poem of Robert Frost in which he comments on the secretive attitude of modern man, every human being in present times has become a castle, he does not want to come out of that secretive attitude and he would not allow any other person to knoed about it. This secretive attitude of modern man it’s brought to light in the present poem.

The subject matter of the poem is repairing of a wall between the house of a poet and his neighbor. The poet is not in favor of having a wall between his house and the neighbor house. But his neighbor is instating own having a wall. The poet finds the present of some unseen force or element which does not like the wall. That is the reason why wall is a having gapes and cracks in it. The implied meaning is that god does not want a man should remain away and aloof from the other man. But the neighbor of the poet is of different opinion. He believes that there must be a wall because, “ good fences make good neighbors”. The neighbor prefers to repair that wall again and again because he would like to keep distance from the poet. Poet compares him self with an orchard of an apple and his neighbor with the forest of pine trees. It’s suggests that the nature of poet is different from that of his neighbor. His neighbor poets stones on the wall and arranges these stones with a good balanced. So that those stones may not fall down. The poet doesn’t like it because he does not want any wall between his house and his neighbor’s house.

The present poem is sarcastic remark on human relations in modern time. The attitude of modern man has become so strange and secretive that he does not want to share any matter or object of his own with others. He would like to keep a wall around him in such a way that there may not be any interaction between him and others. This attitude of modern man is highlighted in the present poem.

Symbols:

1) Wall and fences 

The wall is the shining star of this poem. It unites our speaker and his neighbor, but separates them as well. As we hear the neighbor speak the proverb twice ("Good fences make good neighbors"), we start to consider all of the wall-like structures in our life: fences, gates, boundaries, lines, etc. The wall serves as a canvas upon which a lot of complex ideas about the ways in which people, and their relationships with others, are painted and discussed.

2) Nature and tradition:

Nature seems to act as the third wheel in this poem – the silent character swirling around the speaker and his neighbor. Although he doesn’t explicitly describe the landscape, we see it very clearly, and we seem to know what the seasons are like in this part of the world. Similarly, tradition seems to be the silent subject over which the speaker and his neighbor wrestle. The neighbor upholds his ancestors’ way of life, while our speaker questions this philosophy.

Themes

1) Man and natural world

Our speaker takes great pains to describe the setting of this New England countryside. He tells us right off the bat, "Something there is that doesn’t love a wall/ That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it,/And spills the upper boulders in the sun," (lines 1-3). In doing so, he points nature. Nature seems to be the unnamed culprit who, in addition to hunters, continues to destroy the wall. As the poem unfolds, we learn how spring (and all of its feverish weather and spirit of new life) makes our speaker a bit mischievous. We see in this poem the sharp contrast between the natural and the artificial, nature and man.

Something there is that doesn’t love a wall (line 1)

Doesn’t this first line sound like a riddle, or like a sentence flipped upside down? To us, this "something" sounds pretty darn mysterious and big, and the sentence construction makes us feel like this "something" lurks very near. How would the effect differ if the first line is, "there is something that doesn’t love a wall" or even, "someone doesn’t love a wall?"

That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it,

And spills the upper boulders in the sun,

And makes gaps even two can pass abreast. (lines 2-4)

Wow, this "something" sure is something. Here, we understand that this entity can make frost appear, and, thus, disturb the rock wall. We think it’s interesting that there are three monosyllabic verbs stacked neatly on top of each other in these lines: "that sends," "and spills," "and makes." Such verbs make us feel the momentum that they describe, and we start to think that the "something" is kind of all-powerful and cool.

Oh, just another kind of out-door game (line 21)

Because the rock wall is man-made, the business of sticking little, round stones back into the wall is the work of maintaining this artificial, man-made thing-a-ma-bob. The speaker’s nonchalant attitude toward the mending process contrasts with the more serious, ominous attitude that he possesses in the beginning of the poem when he says, "Something there is that doesn’t love a wall" (line 1).

2) Tradition and customs:

When the neighbour first says, "Good fences make good neighbours," we know that we’ve heard this saying before. When he echoes it at the end of the poem, we realize that this saying was passed down to our neighbour from his father. In this way, the neighbour represents tradition and custom, relying on the past to serve as his guide. The speaker describes his neighbour as "an old-stone savage," making us think of a Neanderthal or caveman. In so doing, our speaker seems to challenge old-school methods, and paints a picture of the wall as antiquated or uncivilized.

But spring mending-time we find them there. (line 11)

This broken wall thing happens like clockwork. Every spring, the speaker realizes that the wall needs mending. Why spring? Is this because the speaker doesn’t really get out much in the cold New England winter, and, so, the first time he’s able to inspect the wall is when the weather gets nicer? If this is your wall, would you put up with needing to mend it every spring, or would you take some preventative measures to try to keep it intact?

I let my neighbour know beyond the hill; (line 12)

Does this mean that there is a hill between our speaker’s property and his neighbour’s house? In that case, between the wall and the hill there are two barriers. As part of the annual mending wall custom, we think it’s downright fascinating that the speaker is the one who starts up the "Hey, neighbor, let’s go mend that wall" conversation. But, he doesn’t like the wall, right? Or, maybe he does like the wall? Perhaps, he likes the opportunity to hang out with someone else every year, even if they are on separate sides of the wall?

He only says, ‘Good fences make good neighbours.’ (line 27)

This neighbour is one quiet dude. We think it’s a little creepy that the only thing he says for himself (ever) is this proverb. Not only that, but it’s not a proverb that he stumbles upon himself – his father passes it down to him. We have a very hard time visualizing this neighbour because he only speaks in clichéd, proverb form. He seems like a very generalize-able man, as compared with our mischievous speaker.

3) Language and communication:

There is definitely disconnected between our speaker and his neighbor. They work together to mend the wall, but they don’t talk to each other as they go along. The speaker wishes to put a "notion" in his neighbor’s head, but he doesn’t actually attempt to challenge his neighbor’s love of the wall. The wall takes on greater meaning as we watch the lines of communication shut down between the speaker and his neighbor.

I have come after them and made repair (line 6)

Why doesn’t out speaker just ask the hunters not to hunt on his property? Or, why doesn’t he just post a sign saying, "No Bunny Hunting?" Instead, he seems locked in some passive-aggressive battle with the disrespectful hunters, and he seems content to follow after them and clean up.

4) Exploration:

When we talk about "exploration" here, we don’t necessarily mean Christopher Columbus or Amerigo Vespucci. Our speaker explores uncharted waters as he begins to question why there needs to be a wall between his property and his neighbor’s property. Our speaker challenges the old-school values that his neighbor embodies.

But they would have the rabbit out of hiding,

To please the yelping dogs. The gaps I mean, (lines 8-9)

Does exploration involve an end-goal? Like the speaker trying to solve the mystery of the wall, these hunters try to corner little bunny rabbits. If we follow this comparison through, the hunters parallel the "something" that doesn’t love a wall, and the bunny rabbits parallel, perhaps, the meaning of the wall. Can it be that we, the readers of this poem, are like the hunters, too? Are we trying to find something or figure something out, as well?

Spring is the mischief in me, and I wonder

If I could put a notion in his head: (lines 28-29)

Does the speaker seem a little arrogant to you here? Why doesn’t he just express this notion, rather than wonder if he can somehow magically make his neighbour rethink the whole wall thing? How can anyone go about putting a notion in another person’s head? At this moment, the speaker seems to explore the realms of his neighbour’s mind

5) Versions of reality:

There’s a whole lot of imagining and speculating in this poem. For example, from lines 30-37, our speaker imagines the thoughts his neighbor might think if he questions the necessity of his old stone wall. The speaker’s reality and that of his neighbor are very different, and these contrasting versions of reality form the backbone of the juicy debate which takes place in the world of this poem: old vs. new, tradition vs. innovation, isolation vs. community.

The work of hunters is another thing: (line 5)

The hunters definitely destroy the wall, but their "work" is very different from the work of another force which seems to be in play. Why does the speaker bring the hunters up if he knows that they have nothing to do with the "something" that doesn’t love a wall? What role do the hunters play in this poem?

We keep the wall between us as we go. (line 15)

Just as the speaker and his neighbour have two different perspectives on the importance of and need for a wall, they literally have two different sides. The wall separates their versions of reality.

We have to use a spell to make them balance:

‘Stay where you are until our backs are turned!’ (lines 18-19)

The speaker and his neighbour venture into the realm of (pretend) magic in order to fix their wall. The "spell" they invoke here makes us think of the "elves" that the speaker mentions later on in the poem. The silliness of such things contrasts greatly with the seriousness of the task at hand.