Sea Fever 1) Who wrote the poem ‘Sea Fever’? Ans:- John Masefield wrote the poem ’Sea Fever’. 2) What was the favourite place of the poet? Ans:- To see the sea was the favourite place of the poet. 3) What do you mean by steer? Ans:- Steer means to control the direction of movement. 4) What was the colour of mist on the sea’s face? Ans:- The colour of the mist was grey. 5) What thing did not the poet deny? Ans:- The poet can not deny the call of running tide. 6) Write the name of Sea-bird? Ans:- Sea-gull is the name of a sea-bird. 7) Who wants to live a gypsy life? Ans:- The poet wants to become a gypsy life. 8) Write the name of the sea-animal? Ans:- Whale, a name of the sea-animal. 9) What do you mean by whetted knife? Ans:- Whetted knife means sharpened knife. 10) What kind of day does the poet prefer for siling? Ans:- The poet prefers vagrant gypsy lives in a sea-gull and whale’s way. 11) What does the poet do when the
Write a note on the significance of the Epilogue in Saint Joan
Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw was awarded the 1925 Nobel Prize for the play , Saint Joan. "The Epilogue to Saint Joan is a real attempt to show Joan's tragedy in the ultimate light of the Divine Comedy " -Nicholas Greene.
Despite the criticism as anti climate , being comic in tone adversely in the tragic piece, the Epilogue to Saint Joan's ments through understanding Saint Joan in the play is independent , encouraging and jealous. Yet she has to die because as a Protestant, She threatened the authority of the church and as a Nationalist .She imperiled the power of the feudal Lords. This theme of the rejection of the mortal genius by the conservatives elements of society is recapitulated and generalised in Epilogue through comic overtones.
Truly, the Epilogue dramatizes Saint Joan's triumph over the foresee of death and her glory of canonization . Twenty five years after her death on this occasion of the rehabilitation by the church in 1954, Joan meets again the man who was involved in her career, when a messenger from the Pope appears to announce the canonization of Joan,falling to their knees in adoration of the new Saint. Yet when Joan acknowledges their praise by asking if she should return from the death. A living woman, each except for the common soldier- again rejects, humbly this time and disappears .Shaw message is clear, those who rule society are never ready to accept the model genius who would change society .Even though the genius be a Saint.
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Shaw calls the Epilogue,a comedy of the attempts of prosperity to make amends .The comedy underlying the pseudo nationalism. Ecclesiastical Malpractices and sell interesting sections ,Show keep them all in striking artistic control in previous scenes. But in the Epilogue, Shaw burst forth in its hilariousness. The dauphin is still a fool as ever.Heis love persists here for Agnes Sorel , a beautiful maid. But, sorry to say he has never dreamed of Joan before. He still does not recognise the Saint. He claims that he is now manly and leads war from the front. Joan here exclaims, " no! Did I make a man of thereafter all, Charlie "? The Puppet king further reaffirm his foolishness as he tells Cauchon." You people with your heads in the sky spend all your heads in the sky spend all your time trying to turn the world upside down; but I take the world as it is, and say that top side up .What king of France has done better , or been a better fellow in this little way ?"
The newcomer , twentieth century cleric then solemnly declares Joan's Sainthood; little suspecting the woman standing near him is Joan herself. The comedy reaches the highest pitch when John asks " Shall I rise from the dead, and come back to you a living woman?... must I be born again?... O God that madest this beautiful earth,when will it be ready to receive the Saint? How long, O lord, how long?"
The Epilogue to the play is no doubt the enactment of sad, lots of Joan in the hostile earth. The part of the comedy is her advent in heaven. Again tragically ends with the desertion by all the peers and comrades. The isolation of Joan is pathetic and in the drama it is a reluctant motif. Joan becomes mankind's failure to recognise it as Saint. Christ like joan is still a suffering lots .Yet in the Epilogue underneath she is a true victorious ,not only because she helped in the liberation of France but also because the ideas which centred in her , still marching on through the centuries .Thus Charles admits that " the judgement on her is broken , annihilated, annulled ,null, non existent , without value or effect . Further Dunois grieves " Half an hour to burn you, dear Saint: and four centuries to find out the truth about you!"
In Conclusion,we must admit that Shaw in his Epilogue draws upon his imaginations and he has inventive powers par excellence. The scene is in some respect, best in the play as Shaw gets free from the confining framework of the faith and becomes a genuine creator. Shaw is here better planned to end the drama with the artistry of delineating Joan's infinite cry of isilations .The play is well rounded off with the the ghost of Joan .G.B Shaw is also innovative in structuring Epilogue as it is no ordering solo speech uttered by any characters ,rather it involves more characters and farce,satire, irony and pathos intermingled in every twists and turns.
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