SUJAY

“Though the morning was cold, Tom was happy and warm: So, if all do their duty, they need not fear harm.” (stanza 6, line 3-4)----Explain.  Who was Tom Dacre?(POEM---THE CHIMNEY SWEEPER) This lines is concluding line of the the Chimney Sweeper written by romantic and liberty poet William Blake.  This speech flow from the mouth of poet's own imagination view. Here, the romantic poet Blake visualise an ideal state of affairs.Children are protected by God and so no harm would come to them. In spite of the slavery and injustice imposed on them by the merciless and heartless masters. Sweeps childrens are free, gay and lively. Their natural urges cannot be curved by any social injustice. There is divine glory in children. Blake has now an innocent view of things and feels that if men do their duty honestly, they need not fear any harm. God is there to protect all from dangers. The poet celebrates the power of imagination.The poet envisages happiness and warmth in the ...

The ending of James Joyce's stream of consciousness Novel A Portrait of the Artist as a young man is not end but at all rather it's beginning. The book culminates in Stephen's self imposed exile from Ireland - his home,church and his past. Joyce's decision to leave home from Paris and Italy . The mind is that Stephen is not able to truly commit to his artistic calling until he has thrown his ties in the past and really experienced life as an independent person. The book ends with the confidence that he will find his artistic voice somewhere out there in the course of his wandering. My New Website about Literature with new angle. Visit : www.Literature Again.com His closing lines are, "Welcome,O life! I go to encounter for the millionth times the reality of experience and ….old father,old artificer,stand me now and ever in good stead" . Stephen will attempt to express the ' consciousness of (his) race '-but ironically he has to leave...

Wert thou my enemy, o thou my friends, How Wouldst thou worse, I wonder, then thou dost defeat , thwart me?  - Explain ( THOU ART INDEED JUST MY LORD) These lines taken from the mouth of the poet priest Gerald Manley Hopkins's prayer poetry Thou Art Indeed Just My Lord  . The poet is willing to admit that god is his Lord and he is just. Here, in the poem, the poet admitted that in any disputation,  he must indeed  God's justice but there is a doubt in his mind and he must express this doubt which seems to be justified too. Hopkins speak bluntly, even though he does it in Elizabethan English, using Wert(were), Wouldst (would), Dost(do), and Thou(you): " If you were my enemy", he tells his God ," I think you could hardly treat me any worse than you are treating me how as my friends". "Life is nothing but die for somethings " -said by a famous person, Here, before die, the poet want to create a poem which would recognise as a...

This line extract from Hellenistic Romantic poet John Keats's Ode to the Grecian Urn, foster child means Urn in the poem The speaker addresses the Urn itself and the images on it. First, the speaker addresses the bright on the Urn . She is frozen in the time , has yet to be ravished so,she is still ' unravished '. In the next line the speaker addresses the Ure  , calling it a ' foster  child of silence and slow time '. The  artist who made the Urn is long gone because the Urn is ancient. So,  the artist is a parent of the Urn. Since the parent is gone, the child has become an orphan and has been adopted by time. The Urn is all visual but no sounds emanating  from it , so it therefore ' silent '. The Urn is The foster- child of ' slow   time' because having lasted so long  with its images  relatively unfaced and as time  that has slowed to point of stopping. To keats, the image on the Urn  is frozen but they symbolised...

This lines extracted from Liberty  poet Lord byron's freedom poem On The castle of Chillon.   Bonnivard's   patriotic zeal brought out here in this poem. He makes apocalypse of tyranny and had shown the path of freedom. Bonnivard,  a Swiss patriot was imprisoned by the tyrant, the Duke of Savoy from his courageous defence against his tyranny. He was kept in the dungeon of the castle of Chillon but the spirit of Liberty is eternal and cannot be suppressed by the Tyrants. Bonnivard's imprisonment and repression rouse his countrymen to patriotic fervour and martial spirit and they attacked the castle and release Bonnivard from imprisonment. My New Website about Literature WWW.Literature Again.Com "Man is born free but everywhere he is in chains" - said Rousseau.  It means that man's first duty is to break the chains to free freedom is our right to born may be flow out from the mouth of Bonnivard like Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel which aptly vis...

My blood congeals and I can write no more… Who is the speaker? What does occasion signify ? These lines taken from University Wits Christopher Marlowe  Tragic Play  " Doctor Faustus", scene-5 and the Speaker was Faustus .   New Website about Literature:  www.Literature Again.Com Faustus is trying to sign his contract for 24 years of happiness with the devil which Mephistopheles has told him already has to be signed in blood. The second time, Mephistopheles brings fire to resolve the blood and allows him to sign but before Faustus has considered the congealed blood as an ominous sign.It is a scary moment designed for the warm Faustus   at the last moment before it is too late? Who knows what to think of it? but it is a significant moment in the play, it makes the last chance Faustus has to go back on the deal.

Beauty is truth, truth is beauty,'--that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. - Ode to a Grecian Urn ----Explain This magnetic feeling and best quote extract from sweet romantic poet John Keats' s Odd to a Grecian Urn  .The poet telling that true and beauty are the same thing and this knowledge is all we need to make it through life. How was beautiful illustration of ancient Greek civilization, that once again proved by the poetic sensation and witty imagination of the poet's mind touch atmosphere .A ancient Greek pot, painted a full story of men ,myth and women and the story read with very enthusiastic mood by the poet with the mind power which is truth and the picture is beautiful.Both are mixed into one and it is a story of future generation who can understand the beauty and the truth by the words of poet. Mind power is a best power according to poet, mind is the house of good feelings and brain is the  feelings of good and bad . If one ...

"About, about, in reel and rout// The death-fires danced at night;// The water, like a witch's oils,// Burnt green, and blue, and white" -- Explain   (The Rime of Ancient Mariners) This context extract from Romantic and Supernatural poet S.T. Coleridge 's poem The Rime of Ancient Mariners . Here, in stanza 11, the speaker said that was the night although the creature would not be seen the multi coloured water  looked like a boiling witch's cauldron.  A fantastic and horrifying hallucination. The poet is creating a supernatural environment through these lines, and soon the shipmates believe  that  a spirit had been following them to create trouble for them. This line further seems to mirror the shipmates state of mind. They have already put to display their superstitions by at once, blaming the mariner, at another appreciating him. Thus, this may also be seen as an extension of their supernatural belief. The fires seem suggestive of hell, bringing fo...

"I'm only an everyday sort of man, and my only chance was in being the first comer." ---How far is Gabriel Oak justified in saying this? At first-comer does he gets a chance to marry Bathsheba?-----Explain "I'm only an everyday sort of man, and my only chance was in being the first comer."---How far is Gabriel Oak justified in saying this? At first-comer does he gets a chance to marry Bathsheba?-----Explain Gabriel Oak is the hero of Thomas Hardy's novel Far From The Madding Crowd . Hardy has spent more space and more pain on the depictions of Oak's characters. In chapter 4, during conversation between capital and Mrs Hurst, the relative of Bathsheba .  Gabriel introduced him as loyal and devoted to Bathsheba , also solid and dependable as a Oak Tree to Mrs Hurst . He does not know how to flats a woman when he says, " I'm only an every-day sort of man" that means he is down-to-earth, dutiful,honest and straightforward...

"Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, To the last syllable of recorded time; And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more. It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing"    ---Explain (Macbeth) Just after the death of Lady Macbeth , the quoted  words flow from the mouth of Lady Macbeth's husband Macbeth with pensive mood in William Shakespeare's tragedy play Macbeth in act 5 scene 5. This is the realisation of a man who has gone a long way, in the way of life. After life fulfills fervour,  Lady Macbeth sleeps eternally. At the death of Lady Macbeth, Macbeth shows an indifferent attitude and says this is not time for her to die, for she could die later. human beings seek tomorrow, tomorrow and tomorrow. Life is like a c...

"Besides, incentives come from the soul's self... why do I need you"?-----Explain (Andrea del Sarto) These quoted lines taken from Victoria poet Robert Browning   134-135 lines of Andrea del Sarto . He wonders whether what makes his contemporaries great is their lack of wife and he blames to his wife Lucanza   for her, he lost his power, glory and position of art as a fruitless painter. Browning very enthusiastically narrated the picture of Andrea del Sarto   life through as a fruitless painter, who totally had mad for the beauty of Lucanza , his wife and came back from France to Italy to fulfill his wife's wish to neglected his inner and mind power painting as a painter. But when he realised what is the more valuable of his life painting or wife? His mind frusted and collapse totally, he  not able to painting from his soul because, it was disturbed by his wife. Best painting never create from brain but soul but the speaker's soul was her wife n...

"Weave a circle round and round him thrice … and drunk the Milk of Paradise" -----Explain (Kubla Khan) With these quoted lines Samuel.Taylor. Coleridge poem's Kubla Khan comes to end of stanza 3, lines 51- 54.Here in this poem, the speaker calls up a strange spirit. This weaving circle round him thrice brings to mind the idea of ritual for us and that ' Holy dread '  reinforces it. There is certainly sometimes Holy or  Scared about this poem. The poet who can recreate his visions is one to be revered in rituals. The final two lines- my poor hero's epithet- express in my opinion and the awe. We can feel before the works of great artists, poets and musicians. Heaven is occasionally attained in art by those blessed artists who have "drunk the Milk of Paradise '' - and when it leaves us in a slightly  dazed state, not quite sure when we are anymore. As a final thought, I shall say that I think the last lines of the poem are akin in...

"Fair is  Foul, Foul is Fair"----Explain (Macbeth) It is an opening scene in act-1 scene-1 of William Shakespeare's tragedy play Macbeth , ends with this ringing cry of three Witches . This is the most important Witches's speech in the drama for in the course of the play, it would be fate someone's. The Three Witches came together in a heath. The atmosphere  is full of thunder and lightning, with the dropping rain they started talking to each other. They predict after the end of the battle  will be before setting of the sun, they will meet Macbeth . Finally they leave the place with this rhythmic cry, what is fear, is foul to them and vice versa . It is not clear in the mind of readers but when Macbeth appears as a fair character at first but in the course of the play, he transforms into a foul one. So, the question is how is this information available to the witches . It is the answer that they are Supernatural Agents and they have the powe...

What does William Blake suggest in the  line " The hapless soldiers sigh"? It symbolises how men are drafted into war and have no choice to serve their country . As these soldiers unwillingly march to the beat of the country's forceful drum, they know their lives will be taken, as their " sigh runs in blood down the palace wall" . Blake uses the sense of destruction to explain how people are forced to repair " the weakness " and " woe" of their society. In the third stanza of London , William Blake raises his poetic hand to protect the life of boys who are involved into war force full only for penury. He criticized the authorities like the Church and the State who are responsible for that brutal war , that is nothing but the shadow of life through the soldiers and using words like " sigh " . W.Blake so how appalled he is at how authorities are being immune to the distress of their common people. The soldier ...

 Fra Lippo Lippi say about his early life. Fra Lippo Lippi is an 1855 dramatic monologue written by the Victorian poet Robert Browning which first appeared in his collections Men and women. Throughout this poem, Browning depicts A 15th century real life Painter Filippo Lippi and his early life through dramatic monologue. Fra Lippo Lippi, introduce us to the monk as he is being interrogated by some Medici Watchmen who have caught him out of at night because Lippo's patron is Cosimo de Medici,  he has little to fear from the guards but he has been out partying and is clearly in a mood to talk. He shares with the men the hardship of monastic life. He is forced to carry on his relationship with women in secret and his superiors are always defeating his Good Spirit. If he was orphaned while still a baby and starved until his aunt gave him over to a convent, but with the help of a monk , he achieved a new life to improve himself and become a good man and a good Pai...

"It may be we shall touch the happy isles...the great Achilles,who we know" ---locate the lines and explain the allusions involved in 'Happy Isles' and 'Achilles'.---Explain (Ulysses) These lines are extracted from Victorian  poet Alfred lord Tennyson's  Ulysses in 63-64 lines. The story recalled the great epics of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey and  mighty characters- Ulysses and Achilles . In the poem, the speaker Ulysses said  of Heaven and Achilles to his best friend by the touch of the poet's poetic sensation. " Happy Isles "means the islands of the blessed, a place where big- time Greek Heroes like Achilles enjoyed perpetual summer but now he died. Achilles was the mighty character of Iliad who came back the honour of Greece in the War of Troy . Here in the poem, Ulysses realises that he and his companions  might die but would feel peace with that. If they die, they might even get to go to heaven and visit their old ...

"I was Prince of Apple towns"-- who is the prince here? What do you mean by apple towns?-----Explain (Fern Hill) This line taken from Modernist poet Dylan Thomas' s Fern Hill , here in the poem, Prince is the poet himself. He came back on his journey from experience to innocent childhood through poetic imagination, where he had spent most of the time during childhood. ' Apple towns ' referred to nature and the age of childhood of the poet, mentioned in the first stanza line number 6 where the poet praised the good days of childhood and called himself as a Prince. It is a one kind of metaphor of youth. The poet describes it almost in a Blakian  style from innocence to experience.

"The Fiend looked up, and knew His mounted scale aloft:  Nor more;  but fled Murmuring, and with him fled the  shades of night"-----Explain (Paradise Lost ) These quoted lines are extracted from the last two lines of Paradise Lost Book- 4 written by Puritan poet John Milton . When Satan is ready to fight with Gabriel in paradise but that time, the appearance in the sky of a pair of Golden Scale and Satan recognises the sign and flies off. Satan , after completed his evil planning to establish his kingdoms on Paradise , the house of Adam and Eve   take rest in paradise as many form such as Cormorant, a bird of a prey; lion, tiger and ultimately caught up as the form of toad by Gabriel's guard's while tempted Eve at night. Gabriel who questions Satan about his motives for entering Eden . Satan crafting replies that those in Hell seek a better place. He had come to scout on earth but not to do evil. After further discussion, Gabriel accuses Satan...

"The sea is our mother, the cloud is our brother, the waves are our comrades all" --Explain ( Coromandal Fishers ) This extract is taken from prestigious women Sarojini Naidu's poem Coromandal Fishers . It is an address to the Coromandel fishers to call of the duty. The speaker gives a call to his brother fishermen to get up from their bed. The wind is hushed now, so it is the time for them to gather their nets from the shore and shed them boats free from sailing. They should not delay but make haste. The sea is their mother, brother is the cloud and waves their comrades through this line, the speaker points to the fact that the fishermen will get their companions all the time if they call him. The sea, the clouds and the waves are part of nature. The fishermen have to depend much upon them because rough sea is the hostile for fishing, agitated clouds are adverse to fishing and the wild waves can be destructive for their profession. Therefore as the fisherme...

"Ah ! Then, I feel I have not lived in vain" - Explain ( To the Pupils of Hindu College ) With this quoted line, Derozio's Sonnet To the Pupils of Hindu College comes to end . Though this line Derozio points out the self esteem of a teacher. In this Sonnet, great teacher, Derozio portraits the picture of an overall development of his students. Their minds are like the petals of young flowers, slowly but steadily like the young birds of Summer, the students develop mentally and physically. In this way of life, many new preparations  shed their influence upon the students. They worship the omnipotence of truth . Derozio becomes very happy when he finds that the goddess of fame embraces his students when his students will be successful, he will consider that his life was not a vain one. The success of a teacher depends on the success of his students. There is a Sanskrit sloka ," Ajnana Timir Andhasya Jnana Anjana Shalaakaaya  Chakshu Runmilitam Yena T...