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English I Notes — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 05:41:42 +0000

Piano

Great Scott! Gadzooks!

On the Eve of His Execution

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

Where the Mind Is Without Fear

Assimilation of the poem Where the Mind Is Without Fear

English I Notes — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 05:41:42 +0000

The idea Rabindranath Tagore expressed with the poem impressed me a lot. The poem inspires people to live a life fearlessly while ensuring the society is peaceful, unified and justice is served. Fearing something stops us to think properly and act as an obstacle to our own progress. If all the people in the nation realize the importance of the knowledge that is free, self-respect, love, work and a feeling of unity than a nation can be in a better place – a place where there is freedom, peace, equality, and justice.

Interpretation of the poem Where the Mind Is Without Fear

English I Notes — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 05:41:42 +0000

This patriotic poem tells us about the importance of freedom in human life. The poem also doesn’t fail to show us the value of reason, knowledge, freedom, universality and honesty. The poet wants to create a perfect place where everyone can live in harmony and there are no artificial borders to divide. He wants the nation and the citizens within to awake.

Assimilation of the poem Great Scott! Gadzooks!

English I Notes — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 05:41:42 +0000

The poem helped me get an idea of why a child would spend most of his/her time infront of a television set. I’ve also learnt the negative impact of watching a television and the ways to influence a child to rather use the time doing other activities. To encourage a child to be do something else, I would control the hours they watch TV and tell them interesting stories to keep them interested in hearing more of the same. I would give them books as gifts during their birthday and other special occasions and try developing educational environment in home and in the community.

Critical Thinking of the poem Piano

English I Notes — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 05:41:42 +0000

Although I agree with the moral of this poem that music has potentiality to entertain the people of all ages, I found some parts of the poem unconvincing. Do all people get fully entertained by the music as poet in the poem does? Do all people have happy memorable childhood that they want to recall? Does any responsible person want to go back in the childhood memory? Isn’t it somewhat shameful for one grown up person to weep like a small child recalling his past and wanting to forget his present?

Critical Thinking of the poem Where the Mind Is Without Fear

English I Notes — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 05:41:42 +0000

The poem stands on patriotic front and shows a mirror of the society, nation and the world where people think, work and live. The poet imagines an ideal place without injustice, corruption, violence, inequality, and discrimination. Rather he wants to see the place with complete freedom, justice, spiritualism, and humanity.

The poet seems to distance himself from the reality while doing so and tried to image a place which would be perfect as per him. Is it even possible to make the present world anyway close to what the poet wants to in the poem? Do gods exist? And, if they do, do they have the authority or power to change the world in accordance to the poet’s desire? Is it possible to even transform the current real world into ideal one in a blink of an eye? Can injustice, violence and other forms of crimes be swept out completely?

Summary of the poem Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

English I Notes — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 05:41:42 +0000

The speaker in the poem who is traveling through the snow at night pauses with his horse near the woods near a neighbor’s house to watch the snow falling around him. His horse shakes his harness bells, questioning the pause. Maybe this place isn’t on their normal route, or he is curious that there doesn’t appear to be a farmhouse nearby.

The speaker continues to stand near the woods as he’s attracted by the deep, silent dark surroundings. He feels bound to move further into the snowy woods. He ultimately decides to continue, concluding with perhaps the most famous lines of the poem: ‘But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep.’

Critical Thinking of the poem On the Eve of His Execution

English I Notes — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 05:41:42 +0000

Beautifully composed by Chidiock Tichborne, “On the Eve of His Execution” is a poem which provides a dark look at a life cut short. Natural, skillful presentation of the poem gathered sympathy for the condemned of the poet and is still favorable among scholars.

Thinking or knowing about death ignites fear in anyone/everyone and the mind filled with depressive thoughts can’t think about creative things. I found some contradictory thoughts even though the poem is presented nicely. The poet joined Babington Plot to kill the queen which in itself is a crime. He should be ready to face even the worse consequence of it which is capital punishment if the plan fails. The worse happened when the plan failed, he is caught and ordered for execution. Why is he fearing the death now? If he knew death is to be painful and full of fear, why did he take part in the crime plot? He should rather accept death with dignity accepting truth and face it for the plot he involved himself in instead of crying about it.

Interpretation of the poem Piano

English I Notes — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 05:41:42 +0000

Every person be it young or old wanting to listen to music reminds the poet of his happy memories of past freeing him from ongoing troubles. The poet may be suggesting that the music functions as a medium to free us from cruel conscious thought.

Likewise, this poem tells us some moments of our childhood becomes so memorable and important like in the poem when he (the poet) heard a woman singing a song while playing the piano made him recall his happy memories of past days. It may also be interpreted to mean that mother’s love is superior to any other forms of love as they give us lots of love and care making our life beautiful.

Interpretation of the poem Great Scott! Gadzooks!

English I Notes — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 05:41:42 +0000

The message in the poem is that the books which can have an important role to play in child’s growth is often forgotten over television in the modern society. The poem asks the parents to change the way they educate their children by replacing television with books.

The feeling of anger, worry and strong tone of uneasiness towards the existence of TV in the modern society as part of child’s growth can be found in the poem with a negative attitude towards television. This is expressed with the use of negative connotation in an ironic way.

Soft, gratifying and cheerful tone is used to present books as the best offering for a child’s growth and development. This shows the positive and favorable attitude towards books by the poet.

Assimilation of the poem Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

English I Notes — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 05:41:42 +0000

After reading the poem, I learnt that the duties can’t be fulfilled in the course of time as it doesn’t wait for anyone. All the duties and responsibilities need to be fulfilled and carried out when we can and on time. The poem also talks about the beauty of the nature in even the darkest of elements like the frozen lake, darkness and cold weather.

Assimilation of the poem On the Eve of His Execution

English I Notes — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 05:41:42 +0000

The poem had several messages to give. I got to take a closer look as what goes on one’s mind when life is cut short and knew that everyone has love for oneself regardless of how bad one does. I also knew that anyone committing crime would be caught and punished sooner or later. This reminds me of the law where the person is pleading for forgiveness realizing the crime one did but no one hears the person at that time. For that reason, we need to choose our path wisely when we can and move on the right path towards success and not choose the wrong path to end behind bars or be sentenced for execution like the poet. The poem inspired me to follow the path of truth so that there would be no regrets before natural death.