Visit to Ankur School

Visit to Ankur School

                    On 28th June the student of English Department visited by "Ankur School" at Sardarnagar in Bhavnagar. I am First time visit to Ankur School and look to special children. I was Listening that there was such a student and also his school but i have never visited. first time i went to there organization by department of English. First at all we get some basic information about special children as well institute. once upon a time in India disable child has not proper space in education journey and even in family membership. i saw mostly people misbehave with any types of desable children and person also. he was physically disable. he can learn everything from brushes to dresses or even clothes in the school he is taught everything from brush to clothes.

                       There was one mam who guided us through the visiting. that there teachers were focused only children's basic routine process of daily. there are many different class for all students. they are the special student the all teachers using technology was more attractive to special children. they are also using music and yoga. when we visited there many student's behave well with us. i think was a very difficult to train and teaching this kind of children. they 1 year or 6 month to learn to do brush. i am enjoyed to a Ankur school visit Thank you to Vaidehi mam to organize this type of Ankur school visit.  

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The Waste Land Poem

Thinking Activity The Waste Land Poem

 * About The Waste Land poem:-

          

                            The waste land is a poem by T.S.Eliot widely regarded as one of the most inportant poems of the 20th century and a central work of modernist poetry.it was published in book from in December 1922. Among its famous phrases are 

                        "April is the Cruellest month",

                        "I will show you fear in a hand full of dust", and the mantra in the Sanskrit language "Shantih Shantih Shantih". this epic poem divided into five parts Different as,

(1) The Burial of the Dead

(2) A game of chess

(3) The Fire Sarmon

(4) Death by Water

(5) What the thunder said

                         This poem is a very long but interesting poem by writing T.S.Eliot. this poem also represented the sexual perversion and spiritual degradation.

Q-1) What are your views on the following image after reading 'the waste land'? do you think that Eliot is regressive as compared to Nietzsche's views? or has Eliot achieved universality of though by recalling mythohistorical answer to the contemporary malaise ?

     

ANS:- This question in my point of view I think Frederic Nietsche was a German philosopher. he been some people came out with strong will power and more mental ability, enthusiasm. the mythical views like Upnishada login. supernatural power and various cultures Eliot to evoke the past is very good lesson to make better Future. the Eliot gave example for like Upanishad, Buddhism and Christianity. he was also symbol like red rock symbolize Christianity. Third part of poem in the Buddhism and last part Upanishad by Eliot. he was hanged man means Jesus Christ. we found that people who are involved in sexual perversion.

Q-2) Prior to the speech, Gustaf hellstrom of the Swedish academy made these remarks: 

 What are your views regarding these comments? it is true that giving free vent to the repressed 'primitive instinct' lead us to happy and satisfied life? or do you agree with Eliot's view that salvation of man lies in the preservation of the cultural tradition?

ANS :- This question in my point of view is a the disorganization in community and word. this poem is sexual perversion and spiritual degeneration also he "life in death and death in life" the cycle of life by Freud the profound cause of lay in unbehagen cultural modern man. he mentioned about modern man or we can say that waste modern epic. 

Q-3) Write about allusions to the Indian thoughts in "The Waste Land".( Where how and why are the Indian thoughts referred?)

ANS:- My point of view this poem was combination and vivid languages myths. the last part of the waste land poem that Eliot use the example from Indian concept in the fifth part of the poem.

1) Buddha's sermon :-

                       The Waste Land third part the one idea of fire sermon and Buddha sermon.

2) River Ganga and Himalaya :-    

                      " Ganga was sunken, and the limp leaves

                        Waited for rain,while the black clouds

                        Gathered far distant, over Himavat".

   

                        Ganga is a purification Himalaya is a spirituality and peace.

3) Three Da :-

                Datta... (Devote)

                Dayadhavam... (Sympathize)

                Damyata...(Control)

       

              Da... Da... Da... reminder to practice self control.

4) Thunder :-   

                 "The jungle crouched,humped in silence

                   Then spoke the thunder.

                 This poem use thunder from Upanisad vedas. there is reference of Upanisad in Prajapati. thunder aakashvani to devotes are pointed of salvation.

5) Santih Santih Santih Mantra :- 

                 This line is a the Waste land poem last line about ultimate peace every human being craving. this can be considered as universal human.

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Modernism & Modern Poem Thinking activity

Thinking Activity : 

            Identify the "Modernist", "Symbols", "Imagery" and "Metaphors"..... from the poems.

* Meaning of Modernism :-

                   Modernism is both a philosophical movement and an art movement that, along with cultural trends and changes, arose from wide-scale and far-reaching transformations in western society during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. among the factors that shaped modernism were the development of modern industrial society and the rapid growth of cities, followed then by reactions of horror to world war 1. modernism also rejected the certainty of enlightenment thinking, and many modernists rejected religious belief.

                  Modernism is a period in literary history which started around the early 1900s and continued until the early 1940s. Modernist writers in general rebelled against clear-cut storytelling and formulaic verse from the 19th century. Instead, many of them told fragmented stories which reflected the fragmented state of society during and after World War I.

                  Many Modernists wrote in free verse and they included many countries and cultures in their poems. Some wrote using numerous points-of-view or even used a “stream-of-consciousness” style. These writing styles further demonstrate the way the scattered state of society affected the work of writes at that time.

* Characteristics of Modern Age :

• Classical allusion 
• free verse
• Dislocation of meaning
• Loss of faith
• Rejection of old norms
• Meaninglessness
• influence of Marxism
• Art of life sake
• Breakdown of social norms

* Very short Modernist poem :-

1) "The Embankment" - T. E. Hulme

Once, in finesse of fiddles found i ecstasy,

In a flash of gold heels on the hard pavement.

Now see I

That Warmth's the very stuff of poesy.

Oh, God, make small

The old star-eaten blanket of the sky,

That I may fold it round me and in comfort lie.

                 T.E. Hulme was influential poet and thinker in twentieth century.The first Modern English poem. If we most readily associate ‘modern poetry’ with brevity, precision of language, understatement, unrhymed verse, written about everyday and often very ordinary things, then we owe many of those associations to T. E. Hulme. this poem available on internet says: Fallen Gentleman reflects on his pas and how he found pleasure in worldly social activities such as musical gathering and dances. here "Flash of gold heels" represents the beautiful women and "hard pavement" represents the hard and rough side of the society. but the darker side of this phrase "flash of gold heels with hard pavement" is though she is beautiful but she is prostitute as well.

2) "Darkness" - Joseph Campbell

Darkness

I Stop to watch a star shine

in the boghole -

A star no longer, but a silver

ribbon of light.

I look at it and pass on.

In this poem poet talks about the night scene and the importance of stars in the dark sky. Poetry doesn't come much more understated than this. This poem has completed into only 4 lines. According to my point of view I get some thing from title. Darkness also connected with death and something happening bad. Here I can say that Speaker will feel depression. As a part of depression Speaker face mental illness so that speaker don't like to see shining of stars but likes to see light. So that I have to say that this sky may be gives the feeling of boghole.

3) "Image" - Edward Storer

Forsaken lovers,

Burning to Achaste white moon

Upon strange pyres of loneliness

and

drought.

                  The dictionary meaning of "forsaken" is" to give up". Poet is describing here the condition of forsaken lovers. Generally in love both gets calmness through the light of moon. But for them who are forsaken, moon light is like a burning chaste. And it seems that lovers are burning on pyres of lonliness and drought not of wood. 

4) "In a station of the metro" - Ezra pound

The apparition of these faces in 
the crowd;
petals on a wet, black bough

                  This poem is about the hasty life style of modern working people in urban area not in rural, who are so busy in their routines that they are in crowd but can't notice eachother, its like loneliness in crowd as in above poem, image of petals on a wet blake bough suggest that the people are together though they are alone and don't have their individual identity in crowd.

5) "The pool" - Hilda Doolittle

Are you alive?
I touch you
You quiver trembling like a sea-fish
I cover you with my net
What are you-banded one?

                        Whenever we hear the word "pool" then there is only one thing came in our mind and that is a place where we can swim or have fun. but here we can relate "sea fish" with T.S Eliot "The Wasteland" in which he discussed about the unreal cities like "London". 

6) "Insouciance"- Richard Aldington 

In and out of the dreary trenches
Trudging cheerily under the stars
I make for myself little poems 
Delicate as a flock of doves
They fly away like white-winged
Doves.

                        This poem shows the carelessness of people, its also seems like war poem and poet talks about life of soldier as Ajit said earlier in his blog. the metaphor like 'dreary trenches', 'flock of doves' and 'white winged dove' etc used by poet to express his though about lifestyle of people that how they are unaware and don't have any exitement but still they are going on to live their life.

7) Morning at the Window - T.S.Eliot 

They are rattling breakfast plates in
basement kitchens,
and along the trampled edges of the 
street
i am aware of the damp souls of 
housemaid
sprouting despondently at area gates.

The brown waves of fog toss up to me
twisted faces from the bottom of the
street,
and tear from a passer-by with 
muddy skirts
an aimless smile that hovers in the 
air
and vanishes along the level of the
roofs. 

                          This poem written in London, shortly after the outbreak WWI. In the poem context that may be lurk behind the poem's dark, oppressive images of everyday life. it is an rhymed poem according to my opinion speaker watched terrible sight out side from the window at early morning. they have not good clothe. this poem has completed into 9 lines.

8) The Red Wheelbarrow - William Carlos Williams

So much depends
upon
a red wheel
barrow
glazed with rain
water
beside the white
chicken.

                       Here we can say that poet used the word "wheel", "rain","water" and white chicken. the dictionary meaning of wheel borrows is a small, one wheeled cart with handles at one end for transporting small loads.it is like bullock cart but bullock cart is pushed by bull but wheel borrow may be pushed by man for transporting little goods and luggage's. so we can say that it is a poem about the sacrifice of a younger one in this modern age.

9) Anecdote of the jar - Wallace Stevens  
                            

                                  The poem as suggest talks about jar compare with the state "Tennessee" in America, Which suggests its independence that poet placed jar upon hills its tall and its dominion in that area, so its about that state.

10) "I" by E.E. Cummings

"I"

"I (A ...(A leaf falls on loneliness)

I (A

Ie

af

fa

II

S)

One

I

Iness"

                   The poem seems like confusing at first sight but when we carefully read it is line that 'a leaf falls on loneliness', when we look at the modernist structure to write a poem it also look like leaf falls down, it also suggest the feelings or dreams of people after wars that are broken in small pieces. it also suggest the disconnection with nature as science developed in modern age. fall suggest many that fall of civilization and loss of hope for betterment is no longer.

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Charlie Chaplin The Great Dictator

 Charlie Chaplin The Great Dictator 

                           3 July 2019 I am watching the Charlie Chaplin in the great dictator modern times in English Department. Charlie Chaplin born 16 April 1889 and died 25 December 1977. This movie is a political satire 1984, Arhood frame, ray Bradbuy. This movie was parody. this movie language is a gibberish. Chaplin is a very comedy man.

                 In 1938, the world's most famous movie to prepare a film about the monster of the 20th century. Charlie Chaplin looked a little like Adolf Hitler. Chaplin devised a satire in which the dictator and a Jewish barber from the ghetto would be mistaken for each other. "The Great Dictator", Chaplin's first talking picture and the highest-grossing of his career, although it would cause him great difficulties and indirectly lead to his long exile from the united states.  

                             "The Great Dictator" movie represented satire on political system, Historically significant & reflection of world war and aesthetically elements. another side that i found feminism also. how woman and jew people bearing by central power and system. moreover i found in movie some condition of hospital and crash of plane during that time. here i connected with nowadays times also. mostly nowadays we suffering lot problem same as that time.

                        

                              "Ghetto" is area and marked of Jewish people in Europe which hews were permitted to live there. in many times ghettos were places of terrible poverty and during periods of population growth. here in the movie i could find they had narrow streets and small, crowded house rather than another. same as in nowadays poor, low caste people even villages don't have comfortable houses. Shetto is for rich people area.

                             Devaluation of artist was another issue which were reflected in the movie. being a leader Hynkle seemed interested in to prepare his portrait though he had not respect for artist. he just came and stayed for a little and again went away, while the portrait maker or painter were waiting for him constantly.

                             The modern times, it also ends with the hope of better coming. The last setting of the movie was also far from urban life. 

     

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