Virgina Woolf's "T0 The Lighthouse" - Classroom activity

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             This Blog is a part of my Classroom activity of Virginia Woolf's "To The Lighthouse". Click here to the blog task.

Ans - 1 "Complicated Human Relationship" :
       
       In this novel Virginia Woolf uses narrative technique " Stream of Consciousness." As we all know that people think too much about something or we can say about someone.This is big reason of how  complications built in human relationship.

Ans - 2  "Novel is both the tribute and critique of Mrs. Ramsay" :

        Yes, I am agree that this novel is tribute as well as critique of Mrs. Ramsay. Because we see both the side of coin in this novel. On one hand Mrs. Ramsay's character portraying good but on the other hand when we compare Mrs. Ramsay's character with Lily, she is not as good as Lily.

Ans - 4 Description of various myths :

      In this novel Virginia Woolf use various myths. Joseph Blotner has also use the myth like the Pagan myth or Oedipus myth.

Ans - 9 Symbol of Refrigerator : 

     In literature Symbolism is the most important thing. The symbol of Refrigerator is describe than changing technology and improvisation of human culture. Refrigerator is symbol of central character Mrs. Ramsay that she always tries to preserve the things.

     Thank you...

Class Room : Modernism Sem-3

  Hello readers here I am sharing my views on various poems. which is part of my classroom activity.

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.

      In this poem writer recollecting his past time. In which he had gold heels on the hard pavement. He tries to say that now he do not has that blanket of pleasure,luxuries so he request to God to give a blanket of stars. But the blanket of God is in poor condition, but though there is a need of blanket suggest spirituality.

2.) ‘The Embankment‘- T. E. Hulme

 

Darkness

I stop to watch a star shine

in the boghole -

A star no longer, but a silver

 light.

I look at it and pass on.

 

 

 

              Word "Darkness" itself describe night, sadness also 

 

connect with beauty of night, beauty of moon. It also 

 

describes peace of mind. Poet is not able to see stars; but 

 

there is "a silver ribbon of light" and poet looked it at that 

 

there is no stars but light is still be there. So here poet 

 

describe the beauty of  stars and night. 

 

 

 

3.) 'Image' - Edward Storer

Forsaken lovers,

Burning to a chaste white moon

Upon strange Pyres of loneliness and

drought

 

 

            The title suggest itself the image of Victorian age. 

 

Poem is depiction of forsaken lover is described.
 

The poem as per its title “Image” presents an image of the 

 

modern people and their way of living, they requires purity 

 

like moon.

 

 

 

4.) "In a station of the Metro" - Ezra Pound

The apparition of these faces in the Crowd;

Petals on a wet, black bough

 

 

         In this poem poet compares faces of people which he 

 

found in crowd with the "petals on a wet, black bough."

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?

 

 

               Here poet says about overpowering or colonizing 

 

someone. It is not alive because now it is there the net of 

 

somebody fish after going in the end cannot survive for 

 

longer.

 

 

 

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.

             His poem's comparison is with love. Here the words 

 

"Trudging" and "Cheerily" give the image of life where we 

 

are doing many things unwilling.

 

 

 

               

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 despondentlyat 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.

 

 

 

            The whole poem has negative words. The word 

 

"Ratting" means vibrating shaking plates. Damp means in 

 

low spirits from loss of hope or courage.

 

 

 

 8.) The Red Wheelbarrow -William Carlos Williams

so much depends

upon

a red wheel

barrow

glazed with rain

water

beside the white

chicken.

 

             

                    Red wheel, white chicken these all are symbols 

 

and through these poet try to say about human beings. It 

 

means be connected with white people and their life.

 

               

 

 

9.) Anecdote of the Jar- Wallace Stevens

 

I placed a jar in Tennessee,

And round it was, upon a hill.

It made the slovenly wilderness

Surround that hill.

The wilderness rose up to it,

And sprawled around, no longer wild.

The jar was round upon the ground

And tall and of a port in air.

It took dominion everywhere.

The jar was gray and bare.

It did not give of bird or bush,

Like nothing else in Tennessee.

 

              

 

                    Comparison between artificiality and natural 

 

things.Good example of artificiality and natural thing is fast 

 

food and Natural home made food like. Here we can say 

 

that 

 

we equally live both the life. But now a days we all are 

 

 more 

 

attracted to artificial things. which is very harmful for us.So 

 

its better to be natural rather than artificial.

10.) ‘l (a‘-E. E. Cummings

l(a

le

af

fa

ll

s)

one

l

iness

 

  

               This poem reflects the modern time people were 

 

people living in one country together like leafs live on a tree 

 

but when they fall it is only their fall. There was not strong 

 

relation between them. One question pops up in my mind 

 

after reading this poem that Can we trust people or not.

                     

 

 

 

Middlemarch- "A study of Provincial Life"

📖 "Middlemarch" is written by Mary Ann Evans known by her pen name George Eliot was an English novelist, poet, journalist, tanslator and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era.
     
       She used a male pen name, she said, to ensure tbat her works would be taken seriously. Female authors were published under their own names during Eliot's life, but she wanted to escape the stereotype of women writing only lighthearted romances.

      "Middlemarch- A study of provincial Life" is first published in eight instalments during 1871-72. The novel is set in the fictitious Midlands town of Middlemarch during 1829-32, and it comprises several distinct stories and a large caste of characters.

Meaning of Middlemarch :

      Middlemarch is the name of the town where almost every scene of novel takes place. It is a pretty avrage place, as the "middle" part of the name suggests.
     
       It's fictional town, but one that is supposed to be representative of dozens of other towns like it at this point in English history.

Major Characters of Middlemarch :

1) Dorothea Brook
2) Celia Brook
3) Nicholas Bulstrod
4) Harriet Bulstrod
5) Edward Casaubon
6) Sir James Chattom
7) Will Ladislaw
8) Tertius Lydgate
9) Rosamond Vincy
10) Fred Vincy

These are the major characters of the novel.

Plot Overview :

      Middlemarch is a story of two sisters. The protagonist is Dorothea Brook and Celia is her sister. Dorothea is highly moral and knowledgable and Celia believes in materialistic life. Here Eliot has presented the tow different classes of people in Victorian age.

     One was still in the influence og Classicism and Romanticism and the other believed in the new trends of Victorian age which was about industrial revolution and political and ulpper class. The novel is first started as a short Novella ' Miss Brook ' but later it was published as a novel named ' Middlemarch.'

    The subtitle " A study of provincial Life" suggests that it is a life of ordinary people and how they struggle into their life.  The main character Dorothea Brook falls in love with an aged scholar Edward Casaubon. But soon she came to know about his disinterested behaviour towards life. He was not having value of women in his life. She again falls in love wih Casaubon's young cousin Will Ladislaw. Here the psychological condirion of Casaubon and Dorothea quite noticable.

      Casaubon was scholar and linking Dorothea but was not able to give enough love and respect. Dorothea was in love with Casaubon's intelligence bit was not get respect and freedom and she fall in love with other man.

      Celia was in love with Lydgate and she was not able to adjust with him. She was no able to leave her high sophisticated lifestyle. She was frustrated with the marriage because of poverty.

     In this case if we imagine that Celia was a wife of Casaubon she would have been happy and if Dorothea was married with Lydgate both would have been lived perfect life. But perfect life os for everyone. They have suffered because of their false assumptions towards person and bigh expectations.

    " Middlemarch represents the lives of ordinary people not grand adventures of prince and kings."

Major themes of Novel :

1) Imperfection of Marriage
2) Compassion and Forgiveness
3) Women and Feminity
4) Sprituality
5) Education
6) Reality vs Expectations

  Last  I want to thank Yesha who is my senior and this story I read and uderstand by her source.

Derrida's Deconstruction

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                  This blog post is one of my academic activities based on Derrida's Deconstruction.
Here i am sharing my views on What is Deconstruction.

          First of all Derrida ask some questions that, Is it possible to define something.? What are the limits or to what extent can we define something.? Derrida is difficult Philosopher to read and his term "Deconstruction" is even more difficult to understand. Deconstruction is not distractive activity but an inquiry in to the foundation.

Structuralist critic refer every text or every work by its meaning but post-structuralist can not see the texts or work by its meaning. They believe that every person's thoughts are different so and their thinking is also different , For example I read one book and same book was also read by someone else so according to me the meaning is different but according to others the meaning is different from mine so its called free play of meaning. Means the word is only word we give them different meanings. For example there is word 'Discipline', this word is only word but we gave its meaning there is different meaning of this word like discipline means branch of knowledge or the other meaning is someones good or bad behavior. What connects a word with its meaning or as single with its meaning is the convention and the convention is always social. Derrida points out that the meaning of the word is nothing but the other word. Meaning of one word is set of another words. One word leads to another word and that word leads to yet another...and finally we never come out of the dictionary. We can not find a particular meaning of any word. Its nothing but our illusion that we know the meaning of the word. So the meaning is always postponed. And finally we can say that the meaning is nothing but an illusion.

Wordsworth's most beautiful and Famous poem "DAFFODIL"

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       This blog is all about my favorite Poet and his wonderful and most famous poem. Poet is major English Romantic poet Wordsworth. As we all know that he is the most famous poet and his most of poem is about Nature, So we can say that he loved nature and natural things. William Wordsworth was born at Cocker-mouth, a town which is actually outside the lake district, but well with in hail of it.
         
        At the University he composed some poetry which appeared as "An Evening Walk" (1793) and "Descriptive Sketches" (1793) . In style these poems have little originality. Wordsworth and Coleridge launch their joint publication " Lyrical Ballad" (1798). His other works are,

                        * " Prelude "
                        * " Daffodils "
                        * " The Solitary reaper "
                        * " The green linnet " 
                        * " Resolution and Independence "
                        * " Ode to Duty "

     These all works are very famous and popular in it's own way. My one of the favorite poem is "Daffodils." This simple poem, one of the loveliest and most famous in the Wordsworth canon, revisits the familiar subjects of nature and memory. The plot of this poem is very simple, depicting the poet's wandering and his discovery of a field of daffodils by a lake, the memory of which pleases him and comforts him when he is lonely, bored or restless. 
       
      The speaker is metaphorically compared to a natural object, a cloud- " I wandered lonely as a cloud that floats on high..." and the daffodils are continually personified as human beings, dancing and " tossing their heads " in " a crowd, a host."


                          " DAFFODILS" 
1st stanza :
I wandered lonely as a cloud 
That floats an high o'er vales and hills'
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

             In this first the speaker describes a time when he meandered over the valleys and hills," lonely as a cloud." Finally, he came across a crowd  of  daffodils stretching out over almost everything he could see, " fluttering and dancing in the breeze."

2nd stanza :
Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the milky way,
They stretched in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.

           In second stanza the speaker goes into more detail about the daffodils. They reminded him to the Milky Way, because there were so many flowers packed together that they seemed to be never ending. The speaker guesses that there were ten thousands daffodils, which were " Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.

3rd stanza :
The waves beside them danced;but they
Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:
A poet could not but be gay;
In such a jocund company:
I gazed- and gazed-but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought:

In third stanza the speaker compares the waves of the lake to the waves of the daffodils and decides that even thought the lake is "sparkling" the daffodils win because they have more "glee." He then comments that he, like any other poet, could not help but be happy " in such a jocund company."

4th stanza :
For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure;
And dance with daffodils.

       In fourth and final stanza the poet describes what he gained from the experience. Afterwards, when he was lonely or feeling "pensive", he could remember the daffodils, seeing them with his "inward eyes."    

   So here I am sharing my Favorite poem with you all read it and enjoy...