Sarojini Naidu Research Paper

In Father and Child, as the persona moves on from childhood, her father becomes elderly and is entertained by simple things in nature, “birds, flowers, shivery-grass.” These symbols of nature remind the persona of the inconsistency of life and the certainty of death, “sunset exalts its known symbols of transience,” where sunset represents time. Both poems are indicative of the impermanence of life and that the persona has managed to mature and grow beyond the initial fearlessness of childhood moving onto a sophisticated understanding of death.

It was originally written in French and translated into English by Martin Sorrel. In this poem, the speaker is the one who regrets with his young life, and the addressee is the speaker himself. When the speaker stands and cries thinking about his young life, the sky above him is so blue and clear. The wind is blowing and a branch of a tree is waving in the air. A bird in the tree is singing while the bell from somewhere is making soft sounds. The speaker is feeling blue looking at the sky and the branch above the roof. Furthermore, he feels sad listen to the sounds of the bell and the birds. The subject is about sorrow and grieving, and it teaches a life lesson to the youth to spend the time wisely. This poem evokes the nature imagery as well as his regret longing for freedom while spending his life in the

The poem of Stevie Smith “to carry the child” is basically about the negative effects we have if we still act like when we were kids. When I was a child everything was different and easier. I wanted to grow up and make stuff like adults did. I was excited because the fact that I was become

Poetry gives meaning to life and is an expression of the self, but these people of the school, did not realize it. They were not real people; they were just lifeless “stuffed animals” However, once the teacher is murdered, and poetry is removed from the lives of the children, all is not as well as one would expect.

The poem itself is discussing a man's journey from birth to death and how all around him life is interpreted by material possessions. At the beginning of the first stanza, the sentences have been made very short and simple, as if to demonstrate the thoughts of a new born child. The first voice that the baby hears when he is born is Bobby Dazzler, one of Australia's first game shows. The very first thing that the baby

the many aspects of life that cannot be changed. Through the poem, she shows a

The early learning processes of the young are potrayed more adequately in the poem Father and Child where an older child, this time a girl at a rebellious age, experiments with the constraints of authority in an attempt to seek control for herself. This experimentation leads to an important discovery in her life; death is real and unclean. Just like The Glass Jar, the allusions to nature show the certainly of change and setting the tone for the events.

The path, hard-packed from thousands of bare feet that had trod on it for decades, was flanked on both sides by fat, fruit-laden mango trees, the sweet smell of which always seemed to welcome her home.” (Chapter 1, p.2).The narrator speaks on amari who loves enjoying things she never afraid of anything.Amari loves her home and she thinks its so sweet.The narrator wanna show how Amari she is, the way she appreciate things in her life.Even though their whites in her village she still shows how to put a smile on her face.The narrator wants to readers to show how she so grateful for things.Also how she grateful for her family and

"I suppose the boy's got a point," Arthur said. "Look at the pup's li’l legs. Something like that is useless in here."

The author feels that it is essential that one enjoys life in their childhood since the feeling does not last forever. She believes that when one grows old, they are faced with uncountable challenges unlike in the youth when there exist a lot of good things to appreciate. According to the speaker, life seems enjoyable in the infancy the writer states that the sunbathed and danced some of the privileges that get to fade away when one grows old.

During the lecture that Ms. Naina Ramrakhani there was a couple of art pieces that she took the class around the museum to see .She was a very nice lady who made sure to answer any questions or concerns we had.She was informal and knew how to relate it to us in order for us to grasp it .The first art piece she showed us was the Ganesha . It was a very strange because it had many offerings surrounding it not only that it was an elephant with a human head , which was pretty interesting .She stated many times the figure often receives many kinds of offerings such as money, flowers , shells and even stones. She also gave us the history behind it and the purpose of the Ganesha . This figure was known as Hindu god who was the remover of obstacles

The next stanza begins with possibly the most wonderful line in the poem, which speaks to personal survival, joy, and the continuation of life: “You laughed with the spirit of your husband who would toss stars!” (Harjo). Here Harjo uses the metaphor again, this time to compare the widow’s tears to a butterfly, which is both beautiful and fragile. But here, because of the Butterfly Dance, it takes on a special meaning, bringing their daughter into the circle of death and rebirth.

An analysis of poems discussing the different ideas of infancy and what infancy and childhood means to different people. The ideas of infancy vary across the poems from being a curse to the family to being a blessing from the heavens or even a key to break out of the boundaries set by reality. The poets use various literary devices such as metaphors, similes and different poem structure to convey the message that they carry. Each poem has its own viewpoint on infancy. On the whole four of the poems, “Infant Joy” –William Blake, “You’re” – Sylvia Plath, “Once upon a time” – Gabriel Okara and “Piano” by D.H. Lawrence all have a more positive view towards infancy whereas, “ Infant Sorrow” – William Blake and “Prayer before birth” – Louis MacNeice show a more pessimistic side towards infancy. Despite the fact that each poem has its own different point of view on the subject of infancy, they all seem to share one thought which is the fact that infancy represents innocence and in some cases a fresh start.

20). In the fifth stanza, she fulfills every child’s dream of the parent’s constant attention by sleeping “in the cornucopia / of your left ear, out of the wind” (C. 21), safely surrounded by and encompassing his interest. This is, of course, undercut by the fact that it is not her father’s ear or attention at all, but an inanimate statue symbolizing frightening impermanence. The poem begins and ends with the recognition that what is lost is truly lost. She begins prophetically, “I shall never get you put together entirely”. Ending nestled in his ear, she seeks solace in the pattern of colored stars, knowing that she must find fulfillment in the world immediately around her, by “no longer….listen[ing] for the scrape of a keel on the blank stones of landing”(C. 21).

Just a couple week or before, I was hovering around the streets of Kathmandu and was gyrating around a top of my house with a heavy brain box. Every of those 24 hours of my days used to be spent on finding the meaning of life, death and the reason I am here on this planet. After those rigorous searches inside the book ‘Nirwad, ‘The Alchemist’, and inside my own heart, I finally got the answer.