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INDIAN WRITING IN ENGLISH
ReplyDeleteKALI THE MOTHER BY SWAMI VIVEKANANDHA
Kali The Mother
The stars are blotted out,
The clouds are covering clouds,
It is darkness vibrant, sonant.
In the roaring, whirling wind
Are the souls of a million lunatics
Just loose from the prison-house,
Wrenching trees by the roots,
Sweeping all from the path.
The sea has joined the fray,
And swirls up mountain-waves,
To reach the pitchy sky.
The flash of lurid light
Reveals on every side
A thousand, thousand shades
Of Death begrimed and black —
Scattering plagues and sorrows,
Dancing mad with joy,
Come, Mother, come!
For Terror is Thy name,
Death is in Thy breath,
And every shaking step
Destroys a world for e'er.
Thou 'Time', the All-Destroyer!
Come, O Mother, come!
Who dares misery love,
And hug the form of Death,
Dance in Destruction's dance,
To him the Mother comes.
Swami Vivekananda
Swami vevekananda born in 12 January 1863 – 4 July 1902)Swami Vivekananda is generally known as a saint , a patriot, and a lover of humanity. Swami Vivekananda wrote 33 poems including two translations, This poem was written or forced itself into writing, when, during the days of pilgrimage to Kshir Bhawani (Kashmir) in 1898 This poem glorifies the power behind manifestation. Here the poet seer Her as Infinite Power. "Kali the Mother" had inspired great patriots like Sri Aurobindo and Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose. Vivekananda always considered Mother worship as a means of uplift India and Indians is clear from his statement that follow:
"I can only say, every blow I had in this life, every pang, will become joyful sacrifice if Mother becomes propitious to India once more". The poem glorifies the goddess Kali, whom Hindus associate with empowerment. In this poem Vivekananda is worshiping the terrible form of the goddess (Kali is portrayed mostly in two forms: the popular four-armed form and the ten-armed Mahakali form, the "terrible" form).
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SARANYA NK,SIXTH SEMESTER BA ENGLISH ,ROLL NO:4,GM11AEGR04
SANOOP KS,SIXTH SEMESTER BA ENGLISH ,ROLL NO:20,GM11AEGR27
A Dream of Surreal Science : Sri Aurobindo
ReplyDeleteOne dreamed and saw a gland write Hamlet, drink
At the Mermaid, capture immortality;
A committee of hormones on the Aegean’s brink
Composed the Iliad and the Odyssey.
A thyroid, meditating almost nude
Under the Bo-tree, saw the eternal Light
And, rising from its mighty solitude,
Spoke of the Wheel and eightfold Path all right.
A brain by a disordered stomach driven
Thundered through Europe, conquered, ruled and fell;
From St. Helena went, perhaps, to Heaven.
Thus wagged on the surreal world, until
A scientist played with atoms and blew out
The universe before God had time to shout.
sri.Aurobindo (1872 to 1950) was an Indian nationalist,freedom fighter,philosopher and poet.He joined the Indian movement of freedom and became one of its influential leaders and then turned in to a spiritual reformer.A dream of surreal science is a mix of spirituality,reality and science.the aim of this poem is that eternal life is only possible with the function of physical body.This poem somewhat satirical in tone.here the poet gives us some insight in to the working of infinite. poem satirizes the scientific achievements.the first quarter describes Shakespeare and homer at work.Shakespeare hamlet is the product of his imagination.the gland of Shakespeare inspired him to write hamlet.second line says about the character Ophelia,who dried and achieved immortality.then Aurobindo compares homer to a "A committee of hormones on the Aegean’s brink
Composed the Iliad and the Odyssey.". And states that the hormone helped homer to compose the great epics Iliad and odyssey.in the second stanza Aroubindo compares Buddha to "thyroid meditating almost nude under BO tree" and there he saw eternal light and taught the world eight fold path,which are right learning,right vision,right food etc.Aurobindo then moves on to Napolean-a brain by a disordered stomach driven who disturbed the peaceful and calm existence of so many innocent beings in Europe.he died at st.Helen and moved on to heaven.perhaps this quatrain could also be a oblique reference to the destructive second world war,which had just begun in 1939.this statement can be made on the basis of the couplet which follows..a scientist....time to shut.this couplet though humorously worded may also refer to a much more serious event,which was to follow five years later;the dropping of Atom bomb over Hiroshima in japan by the americans.the poem masterfully parodies the discoveries of science and physiology by the words,gland,hormone,thyroid and brain.this poem is a sharp criticism of the misutilisation of scientific achievements.whenever man began to think beyond the capacity,what happens is destruction.
ANARGA K IYPE,SIXTH SEMESTER BA ENGLISH ,ROLL NO:7,REG NO:GM11AEGR07
Graded A
DeleteThe poem Spoiling The Name was written by Kamala Das (1932 -2011 ) she is considered as the most individualistic among new Indian poets writing in English. She has become a controversial figure, especially by her autobiography, ‘My Story’. There is a strong confessional dimension inherent in all her writing. Nostalgia and confessionals are the most dominant characteristics of her poetry. She also writes in Malayalam under the name Madavikutty. Being predominantly a poet of love and pain, she writes mostly on the thems of anger, hurt and humiliation, male chauvinism, sexual torture, sickness, loneliness and death.
ReplyDeleteThe poem Spoiling the Name throws light on subjugation of female self in a dominant patriarchy. The person has no name rather names given by family, husband and society. The poet has a name for thirty years but it was choose by someone else, for their convenience. If anybody says don’t spoil name she feel to laugh, because she know she have a life to be lived and each cell have its own life. In this line we can see the absents of self freedom and she is asking that what is the relevance of a name in our life. When we walk through the street we are just person, the sweet sounding name always irritating her, and it’s too heavy for her. We need to carry the gift as a corpse and totter beneath its weight. But the author likes the gift of life, and she loves the gift more than all.
We are addressed by the others with the name given by somebody else. We live for others likings we have no right to express our own feelings. The dominant society always commands women and they destroy the individual freedom. In this poem kamala Das effectively express her feelings and emotions against the patriarchal society.The identity of a person are name but the name is an obstacle for the author, and she represent her life as her identity.
Athira M Raghavan 6th sem BA English, ROLL NO 10, GM11AEGR10, Surya Surendran
Graded B+
DeleteMarriages Are Made: Eunice deSouza
ReplyDeleteMy cousin Elena
is to be married
The formalities
have been completed:
her family history examined
for T.B. and madness
her father declared solvent
her eyes examined for squints
her teeth for cavities
her stools for the possible
Non-Brahmin worm.
She's not quite tall enough
and not quite full enough
(children will take care of that)
Her complexion it was decided
would compensate, being just about
the right shade
of rightness
to do justice to
Francisco X. Noronha Prabhu
good son of Mother Church.
Eunice de Souza (born 1940) is a contemporary Indian English language poet, literary critic and novelist. Among her notable books of poetry are Women in Dutch painting (1988). His all poetryare like a good single malt - sharp, biting, harsh to the taste – but equally enjoyable and have a strong sense of individuality and feminism. The poem marriages are made is the one of the famous poem of Eunice de Souza. , It must take an electric emotion, one that rushes through the veins almost making them explode, one that causes every existing cell in the body to scream out with mental joy, the kind of electric emotion that would make someone want to spend the rest of their life with that someone else. This kind of rare electricity in feeling would indicate that marriages are made… somewhere unearthly... somewhere in heaven. Or is it? Eunice De Souza vehemently opposes this possibility and proposes that marriages are made... JUST made. In a conventional, orthodox household in India when a girl comes of age, which can be anytime between 13 to 25, she is presented to many men to be wed. Women like Elena are embarrassingly scrutinized from head to toe, from the right to the left; everything from their teeth to their skin tone is analyzed to see if it is fitting to share the partnership of imbeciles like Francisco X. Noronha Prabhu and their abundant kind. A woman can never be right enough for a man. The family and the man however display benevolence and compromise on their part and choose to accept the woman with all her ‘faults’. Our example Elena goes through several checklists before this alleged benevolent acceptance. Her family history is examined; if any signs of tuberculosis or psychological malfunction come up, then she is an instant reject. But Elena, would be termed extremely lucky by society to be perfectly clear of those abhorrent defects. Tooth cavities and squints in the eye are complete a complete no no. She is checked for both and is yet again, accorded the title of a promising candidate. She unfortunately, isn't tall enough, not even full enough but of course the children will take care of adding flesh and years to her body. She must do complete justice to Francisco by being the right shade of rightness, neither too dark nor not too fair, oh but the latter is never really an issue. The whiter you are the purer is your race! He must finally secure her, shelter her and the good Elena must give Francisco healthy sons.
Elena is a commodity. The commodity needs to be examined before the purchase is made. The opinion of the commodity is irrelevant. But the commodity never really has an opinion, does it? The commodities’ physical appearance is the foremost consideration. The buyer of the commodity doesn't need to fulfill any requirements to buy the commodity. The commodity is then bought and used till its ruination.
In this poem he describe the wonderfully biting sarcasm and a sharp eye for the 'marriage market' of Conservative (or rather stick in the mud, male chauvinistic) India – where Prospective brides are examined like cattle being brought into a market. The poem is characteristic deSouza - a plain tale told without any unnecessary conceits and embellishments, letting well chosen, hard hitting words speak for themselves.
MUHSINA. V
6th SEMESTER B.A ENGLISH,
ROLL NO: 3
FEG NO: GM11AEGR03
Graded A
DeleteJewish Wedding In Bombay
ReplyDeleteNissim Ezekiel (1924—2004) was an Indian Jewish poet and professor, a foundational figure in modern Indian literature. Born in the ‘Bene Israel’ community in Mumbai. Nisim Ezekiel is considered the foremost among the modern Indian poets writing in English. Though he belonged to Jewish background, he was an Indian in personality and outlook. His first volume of poems published 1952under the title “A Time to Change” was a landmark in the history of Indian Poetry in English. Then other volumes that followed established him as a poet of preeminence.
His poems mainly focus on a variety of themes like love,sex,death,loneliness and prayer. They sound colloquial, casual and humorous. Simplicity of style and directness of expression are the main features of his poems. Basically his poetry is something that grows out of his own life and experience. As Parthasarathy says, “Ezekiel's poetry is both the instrument and the outcome of his attempt to come to terms with himself”. To a large extent Ezekiel’s poem have an autobiographical dimension and what is personal borders on the confessional.”Jewish Wedding in Bombay” is one of the main poem of Nissim Ezekiel. Ezekiel’s poetry typically has three prominent features: a focus on Mumbai/Bombay, the competing interests of Hinduism and Judaism in his life, and a heavy use of irony. ‘Jewish Wedding’ has these all in bounds. Indian Jews, however, remained atavistic when it comes to the religious components of the wedding, with all prayers and rituals handed down from one generation to the next. It also seems to work more like a short story than a poem at first glance, but Ezekiel’s use of structure is really intriguing and works to support the larger themes of the poem. Each stanza undermines an ‘image,’ ideal or ideology of some kind, whether it is the Jews committing chillul Shabbat on a holy occasion or the bride’s parents mistaking the groom’s traditions for modernity. These are all linked overall then, to the contradictions and disappointments which Ezekiel believed (post)modernity provided.
The poem starts with the setting of an Indian Jewish wedding, then drifts into the community's ways of living (how Indianite it has become) and finally ends with looking back in life. Asked once how he could have written this poem, Ezekiel retorted with, "Who is the 'we' in the poem?". I liked Ezekiel's poking humor, "some even risked their souls by relishing pork", "the photographic studio of Lobo and Fernandez, world-famous specialists in wedding portraits" in particular. Ezekiel is a legend and is considered the father of modern Indian poetry. Found the above one in the Sahitya Academy’s journal which published an article and some of his poems in rememberance of his death.
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Jasla N.H , 6th sem BA English, Roll no:13, Reg no:GM11AEGR13
Veena O.V, 6th sem BA English, Roll no.27, Reg no:GM11AEGR25
Graded A
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ReplyDeleteHunger is a poem written by Jayanath Mahapatra , Hunger is a well structured poem with an integrated, specific content. The poem is based on a true incident that opened the eyes of the poet to his own debasement and utter helplessness of his starving countryman. The poet depicits a fisherman who is forced to sell his own daughter in prostitution due to extreme poverty. Both the father and the daughter seem to accept their fate with cold resignation. The poet is driven by sexual hunger, while the fisherman and his daughter are moved by real hunger. With the intension of satisfying his sexual urge , the poet set out to an impoverished area inhabited by fisher folk. There he met fisherman who offered to talk him to a women. Actually the girl was his own daughter but the old man showed no emotion though inwardly he was struggling to control himself. The lean frame and hollow eyes of the fisherman clearly emphasized his poverty. He carried an old net in which some sea waste was trapped. The empty net indicate the plight of the man. The sticky soot on the wall seemed to represent the dark intension of the poet. The fisherman announced that the girl was his daughter just turn fifteen. The poet was shocked by hearing the words. The girl was tall and lean reflecting her impoverishment. The fisherman cleverly went out leaving the poet and the girl alone. The helplessness of the girl made him realize that she was driven to extreme by hunger of the belly, while he was lead by sexual hunger.
ReplyDeleteAnupama Alex, Sixth Semester BA English
Reg. No. GM11AEGR09
Shijina V
Sixth Semester BA English
Graded B+
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