Sagar's Diary: Corona Says Corona Says is a poem written by Vi...

Sagar's Diary: Corona Says    Corona Says is a poem written by Vi...: Corona Says         Corona Says is a poem written by Vishnu S Rai. It satirizes on man conducts and attitude. It views Covid1...

Corona Says

 

 

 

 

Corona Says is a poem written by Vishnu S Rai. It satirizes on man conducts and attitude. It views Covid19 as by product of human’s treatment to nature.

The speaker corona tells human beings to be quite. They should not curse it. It says that it has not come to its own wish. It was not its desire to come to the earth. He was invited. It questions human beings that the death occurred by deed of humans. Human have forgotten their destruction to the life. They have killed many people.

The speaker has questioned the supremacy of human. Humans consider themselves as the supreme creatures of the world. They consider they are born to rule and all natural things are here to fulfill their desires. They haven’t given any importance to other creature of the earth. Humans are utilizing the entire creatures according to their own interest.  

Corona has compelled the people to see the nature from naturalistic perspective. It has arrived to renew the nature that has been contaminated by modern people’s reckless doing. It has realized people the feeling of caged animals.

The speaker mocks people and senses the mother earth. It has raised question to Mr. Know All, expertise in knowledge of humankind. Conforming its departure, it warns humankind and compels to rethink the action, as there are so many others that may come to raise question in existence of human kind.

 

 

 

  

Sagar's Diary: A Reading Meter in PoetryPoetry is associated with...

Sagar's Diary: A Reading Meter in PoetryPoetry is associated with...: A Reading Meter in Poetry Poetry is associated with music. As it has musicality, the rhythm matters a lot in the poetry. For the study of th...

A Reading Meter in Poetry

Poetry is associated with music. As it has musicality, the rhythm matters a lot in the poetry. For the study of the rhythm of the poetry, there is metrical study in the poem. In common word, it is called as meter. Rhythm structured in regular unity is called meter. There are four types of meter in English poetry. They are Accentual, Accentual syllabic, the syllabic and quantitative.

1.  Accentual Meter: A metrical system that is based only on stressed syllabus in the line of the poetry. The toal number of syllabus varies in the line of the poetry. It is generally used in German poetry and old English Poetry.

2.  Accentual syllabic Meter: A meter system in the verse, which is determined by the number of stress and unstressed syllabus.  The feet is very important component in accentual syllabic meter. It is an English version of classical metrical composition. It was quite popular in 14^th century. There are four types of accentual syllabic meter. They are:

a.   Iambic meter: An iamb is a literary device that can be defined as a foot containing unaccented and short syllables, followed by a long and accented syllable in a single line of a poem (unstressed/stressed syllables). It is most commonly used in blank verse and heroic couplet. The renaissance poets has used iambic meter as it produces the usual rhythm of natural speech. It is quite soft.

b.  Trochaic meter: The trochee, though, begins with a stressed syllable, followed by an unstressed, or weak, syllable. This makes it the mirror image of the iamb, which follows the pattern weak-stressed. Think of the word 'trouble. It  sounds forceful and more appealing or dominating.

c.   Anapestic meter: Anapest is a poetic device defined as a metrical foot in a line of a poem that contains three syllables wherein the first two syllables are short and unstressed, followed by a third syllable that is long and stressed. since anapest ends in a stressed syllable, it makes strong rhyming lines that create music in a poem. It plays a very important role in poetry, and the most common role in verse is that of a comic meter, which is, the foot used in the limerick for comical effects.

d.  Dactylic meter: Dactyl is a metrical foot, or a beat in a line, containing three syllables in which the first one is accented, followed by second and third unaccented syllablest gives the lines a jerky movement. The major purpose of dactylic rhythm is to create lilting movement and a break. 

These four metrical patterns are commonly used in English poetry. However, there are two other pattern in accentual syllabic meter. They are:

i.  Spondaic meter: A spondee is a unit of meter comprised of two stressed syllables. The spondee is an irregular metrical foot, unlike the trochee or iamb, and is not used to compose full lines of poetry

ii.  Pyrrhic meter: A metrical unit consisting of two unstressed syllables, in accentual-syllabic verse, or two short syllables,

3.  Syllabic Meter: The pattern of meter that is determined by the total number of syllables per line rather than the number of the stresses is called syllabic meter. It mainly advocates for same number of syllable in the line.

4.  Quantitative Meter: The dominant metrical system in Classical Greek and Italian poetry, in which the rhythm depends not on the number of stresses, but on the length of time it takes to utter a line.

 

 

 

Sagar's Dairy: Understanding DramaIn David Rush Point of View Dra...

Sagar's Dairy: Understanding DramaIn David Rush Point of View Dra...: Understanding Drama In David Rush Point of View  Drama is a theatric performance. It presents the world’s perspective as Shakespeare looks t...

Understanding Drama

In David Rush Point of View 

Drama is a theatric performance. It presents the world’s perspective as Shakespeare looks the world itself is a stage and the people are mere characters who play different role. David Rush,  in A Student Guide to Play Analysis has talked nine different strategies to be discussed for the analysis of the drama.

i.       The concerned of the author: A reader should try his best to understand the concern of the world while going through his drama. One has to know about the subject or idea the author is interested. An author/dramatist can have three different subject matters: social subject, how social forces affect our life; individual mind, the subject of human psychology, and spiritual subject, religion, inner peace or spirit.

ii.    The point of view of the author: A reader of the drama should understand the author’s point of view. It presents where the author is placing the audience. The author can presents the audience subjective objective. The author can place subjective audience as insider and objective audience as outsider.

iii. Comprehension of the world: A reader has to understand the author how he understands the world. It denotes that how a dramatist understands the world with the character he presents. Generally he looks the world as a comprehensible.

iv.  Construction of the plot: A plot is important to understand a drama. A reader has to analyze the construction of the plot. There are two types of construction of the plot linear and nonlinear. A reader has to examine the construction of the plot in analysis of the drama.

v.     The texture of the character:  The texture of the character refers to selection of the characters in the play. A dramatist can use two types of the characters. They are realistic as we are or personified of the abstract components. A reader has to judge a drama based on its characters. S/he should look the characters based on these two perspectives.

vi.  Setting: it refers the place where the action of the drama occurs. A reader should examine the setting of the play. The setting of the play helps to understand its different perspectives. A dramatist can use typically two different setting: imitated real setting and distorted setting.

vii.      Language: Language is the element through which a play’s events are communicated; hearing the characters talk to each other lets the audience perceive and understand the play’s meaning. A dramatist can use vernacular language, slang, colloquialism, body language, even some irrational words. A reader needs to examine these linguistic components for the analysis of a drama.

viii.   Forms:  lt refers the functional representation through dialogue. It denotes how the relationship between people on the stage and audience/

ix.  Writers’ definition of the world: A reader has to inspect the writer’s definition of the world.

A reader need to examine these different terms to analyze a drama. When a reader looks at these terms and inspects the drama, he can easily explore all aspects of the drama.

Analysis for realistic drama or drama written in realism

Realism is a movement that begins in 19^th century as a shift against the exotic and poetic writing of romanticism. It depicts what an art is, it is.  These aspects can be seen if we analyze a drama written in realism.

In realistic drama, the concern of the author depicts the by the issues. Especially, a dramatist is anxious to expose the issues and concentrate on facts. He can be either issues driven or character driven. If he gives more important to the fact then he is an issue driven. On the other hand if he shows concern to the people of the issue is character driven. In realistic drama a dramatist only concern for the issues only.

          The point of the view of realist dramatist is always objective. The audiences are kept outside to events they are made to watch it. The realistic plays become more objective. In the same line, the realistic play, conveys the idea that the world is completely comprehensible. The characters and events in realistic plays strike us that we can understand it though it can be unfamiliar.

          The plots, in the realistic plays, follow the laws of cause and effect. It directs from the linear path. The plots move in a direct chronology from one event to another. The characters in the realistic plays are meant to be three-dimensional. They operate from psychological motives and instincts just like ours. The key elements that realistic characters have are: goal, the line of achievements; at stake, vulnerability, strategies, the plan to embark upon in order to accomplish goal.

          The realistic play has great importance in setting. It examines the world as a scientific phenomenon.   It looks at the immediate surroundings, the larger society outside the particular location- a real setting.  The language depicts the lives of the audience. It would be be colloquial, informal, filled with slang where appropriate, and to generally display the rhythms of average speech.

          The form of the realistic play is representational. The audiences are unattached observers of specific demonstration in progress. It can have the combination of both representational and presentational. The realist dramatists define the world is a place that obeys the natural laws of cause and effect. It is comprehensible and therefore able to be studied and controlled. It is a place of logic, order and rationality.