Poem Of Masnavi E Khusrau

Each terrace symbolize a different kind of sin. One has to pass through all the levels to make sure that the sins are cleansed so as to get to heaven. On top of Purgatory there is the moon, which according to the artist, represents the heavenly paradise. I also, shows Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, representing the earthly paradise. The seventh terrace is immediately at the top; it faces flames and strong winds from below.

The poems ‘Still I Rise’ and ‘Unknown Girl’ both explore the way women are expected to behave in specific societies. ‘Still I Rise’ focuses on Maya Angelou’s refusal to accept racism and to allow “them”, white oppressors, to push her down. ‘Unknown Girl’ focuses on Moniza Alvi’s want to be accepted in a society where she belongs, but can’t call her own.

The novel may be called a multigenerational saga as Hosseini weaves many stories into an Afghan family. Interestingly, the focus of Hosseini is multicultural perspective, depicting the life of the poor and the backward Afghans struggling in a global world. Hosseini has touched upon strong cultural themes, the marginalized status of women during the 1970s of Afghanistan, the issue of homosexuality in orthodox society of Kabul. The novel is packed with wonderful characters such as Parwana and her beautiful sister Masooma, Parwana’s brother Nabi who becomes a caretaker to his ailing boss, Suleiman, Timur Bashiri, Idris, Markos and Thalia who looks after Markos’s aging mother. His characters suffer by their being Afghans; they carry within them nightmares that shape their lives. Hosseini depicts their cherished memories thus in his most lyrical

A Comparison of Two Poems Presents from my Aunts in Pakistan by Moniza Alvi and Search for my Tongue by Sujata Bhatt

Throughout the poem, Pages Matam explores the key ideas and issues of victim-blaming and silencing rape victims due to society’s taboo of speaking out about sexual, physical, and verbal assault. Matam effectively outlines the harmful idea that beauty determines your likelihood to get sexual assaulted, which society inflicts upon victims, as a constant motif throughout the poem in the lines “Tell Elisabeth Fritzl, how pretty the flame of her skin was”, using sophisticated imagery within an allusion to explore this idea, applying satire to show society’s glorification and romanticisation of sexual assault as society manipulates getting sexually abused to be perceived as a compliment, ignoring the true meaning and aspects of the issue. This idea

In the poem “Facing It”, by the poet Yusef Komunyakaa, he himself is the one who is speaking, the poem is about his own life experience at the Vietnam Memorial. The way a person can tell if the own poet of the poem is the speaker is by the use of “I”, or first person throughout the poem. In this case, the poet uses words like “I” and “I’m” that support the fact that he is the speaker. The Vietnam War was a Historical event taken place in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia. Which was one of the first war that African Americans were integrated with White people, and the majority of the soldiers were African Americans. Komunyakaa, being an African American soldier in the Vietnam War and surviving, is an honor, as not much African American’s survived. For Komunyakaa all his bad and painful experience is coming back to him to hurt him, as he is visiting the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. He is expecting to see his very own name engraved on the black granite wall, as he feels like part of him is gone and left behind in the War. In “Facing It” Komunyakaa memories from the War are coming to him and the memories are affecting his life style in the sense of haunting him/ hurting him with the use of imagery, metaphors, similes and personifications throughout the poem.

Minorities struggle to break free from poverty, due to the systematic oppression and racism established in America. There is an odd belief that granting minorities rights would allow them to be on the same playing field as the majorities. However, the various death and injustice sentencing that has occurred for decades, proves civil rights were not the only problem. Pedro Pietri’s Puerto Rican Obituary and Wanda Coleman’s South Central Los Angeles Death Trip, 1982 shed light on what minorities face, with some stylistic differences.

“The Joy of Reading and Writing: Superman and Me” is a short story in which Sherman Alexie, the author, writes about the expectations of Indian children and how he defeated them. Alexie’s thesis is about how reading was his key to overcoming the expectation of failure and that helping influence young Indians to read and write can save them from their prescribed fate as well. Primarily expressive writing is used to convey this message but literary writing is also used as a secondary purpose. Narration and description are the patterns utilized in Alexie’s writing as well.

The poem “Dear Matafele Peinam” by Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner is a tremendously moving poem about climate change. To begin, two of the main symbols of this poem are the lagoon and hands. Firstly, the lagoon symbolizes what the world could look like if people do not change. It shows the negative aspects of the world, and it also highlights the direction Earth is going. This symbol can be interpreted from the quote “men say that one day / that lagoon will devour you” (10-11). This implies that scientists are claiming that the Earth is headed in the wrong direction, and change is necessary before Earth devours its residents. Next, hands symbolize collaboration and change. Whenever hands were mentioned, it was always associated with change. A few examples are “hands reaching out / fists raising up” (62-63) and “marching with signs / hand in hand / chanting for change NOW” (80-82). These are powerful statements about rallies and statements about change. The hands are symbols of how the only way to save the planet for the future generations is to collaborate and work together to achieve a common goal.

The Song of Warriors Hearts of fury, we are Blood Ravens, Sons of the Red Warrior who eternally pursues Artemis Golden Bow across the night sky. Bearers of the black sword, wearers of the dragon helm, we are the blades of destiny. Guardians of the Light, we stand eternal watch on the ramparts of Beth Jahuz, Gateway to the Everdark.

In this section of the paper I would like to examine character’s relation to and the ways in which they internalize the mythology of their culture. The book displays many elements of mythology which are quite removed from actual experience and yet become a part of characters’ identity and gain a certain power in their minds. The storyteller’s narrations are an obvious example of a sort of mythology. He voices a stream of rumors of the village garnished with religious invocations which lend his tales legitimacy. The love songs (as well as the cinema), which play a particularly key role in Um Saad’s narratives, are another imaginary depiction of a woman’s experience, which guide Um Saad to beliefs of what she may expect from life and love. The recurring

This compilation of stories is retold by the character Scheherazade, the childhood friend of the anguished sultan, Shahryar. Once scorned by love,

The song I choose from my personal collection is, “Hua Hain Aaj Pehli Baar”, it is an Indian song. This song uses piano, and guitar as the instruments. This song also has many musical features. One of them is the homophonic texture. There is background instrument playing as well the singer singing at the same time. Also there are many vocables use throughout the song: “aah oohh nanana…”. The vocables were played with instruments in the background. This song has duple meter; just when the song starts the instrument stars playing in a pattern of (1-2-3-4).There are two different verse the first begins with different and louder instruments (Hua Hain Aaj Pehli Baar..) then when the singer sing different line the background music changes and becomes

The speaker’s viewpoint in this poem is third person omniscient. ‘Bijan and Manijeh’ is among the independent, love poems of the Shahnameh. The whole story begins when people from Armenia come to the king of Iran -Kai Khosrow- to complain that wild boars are invading their fields. Bijan, accompanied by Gorgin, fight the boars and force them back to their lairs. After the fight Gorgin tempts Bijan to visit the beautiful gardens of Afrasiab, hoping he would cross the border from Iran to Turan and get into trouble. Bijan, however, crosses the border and in the gardens, he meets Manijeh, Afrasiab’s beautiful daughter. Manijeh, knowing her father's reaction to her meeting with an Iranian warrior, gives Bijan a sleeping potion and smuggles

Baym et al.’s (2012) gives us a poets writing that is entitled “Heaven.” Cathy Song is an Asian American poet who is the speaker in this first person poem. Song exemplifies the romantic spirit by evoking reminiscence and separation. In the poem, a woman who is disconnected from her Chinese heritage longs for her familial homeland that she has never seen. She is amused by her son’s notion that "when we die we’ll go to China." She expresses her disbelief of where she currently resides but wants to imagine that she is in China where her ancestors are from. This is seen in lines 12-15: