
(3)Erelu pleads that this be our dance of
defeat ,our final dirge”.
She mourns our wrecked city….prefidy , the
folly of war chorus
Leaders responses to
Erelm ‘s call for a dance ,
“The dance of death ” They dance, they say
for those who ware killed in the field of
slaughter, Those who ware cut down to feed
the greed of power, those innocent young men
‘silenced in their prime, those numerous souls
‘wasted again and again and for the windows
and orphans who survived the many ghost left
behind their bodies abandoned on those
broken bricks
SIGNIFICANCE:
The episode is an emphatic condemnations of
war,
The ritual responses of chorus leaders say
that much.The responses show that war is the
selfish creation of human leaders and that its
effect is quite widespread. The dance by Erelm
and chorus leaders is meant to mock war and
those who promote it.
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(9)the poetic device used in oswald’s boy on
a swing include
-Pronominal Reference
-Repetition
-Diction
-Smile
PRONOMINAL REFERENCE :the pronoun “he”
andinsdant onominal adjective “his” refer to
the boy. Again with the pronoun “I” in lives 14
and 15, the poet succeeds in creating unity in
the prom this making the lines cohesive
REPETITION: line 2 and 3 contain lexical
repetition “to and fro”,”to and fro ” (line2)
Then fast and faster (line3).
There is also the repetition of pronoun
“I” in line 14 and 15.
these repetition helps to create emphasis in
peom
DICTION:The peom used single diction
throughout to align the
Common experience of swinging with a child
point of view .but this
Simple diction is profound and philosophical
in meaning
SIMILE:the second stanza of the poem
contains an effective
simile: His blue shirt flows in breeze like a
tattered kite .
The comparison that is made here is very
vivid.
It adds to the description quality of the poem
who promote it
(5a)Raina ‘s role:
Rains is the play’s heroine and daughter to
Catherine and major petkoff .when the play
begins she is seen out of the cold night in
search of a quietude and adventure : ‘I wanted
to be alone .the stars are beautiful: Although
she expresses pride in sargius’ achievement at
the battle following
Catherines’ persuasion,
It becomes clear later that Rains has
reservation about her love for sergins .she
tells Catherine ‘our ideas ofvwhat sergins
would do our ……I sometimes used to doubt
whether they we’re anything but dreams :
(b)LOUKA ROLE:she is one of the two house
servant in pet off’ house. From the Nicola’s
account she comes from the village where her
father is a famer, this made clear when the
elder made servant warns her of behaving in
ways , her father, left on his little farm’ would
not endorse.
Louka is described as a handsome and proud
girl in a pretty Bulgarial
Peasant dress with double vapron ; in terms of
attitude and behavior she is said to be so
defiant that her servility to rains is ‘almost
insdant
(11)
“The Poem,’Upon a honest man’s fortune” is
set in a Pseudo medivial society in which
leathers and superstition pratised used to
thrive and throne Christianity was not
practiced.The fortune or soothsayer carried the
days and people consulted for people
consulted them for knowledge and guidance
about daily pre-occupation. The fortune tellers
interpreted all misfortunes and fortunes in
accordance with the stars,so they “Look
through Heaven and fell the star”. By which
they became “God surveryors to the poet.The
tendency then was also for the fortunes tellers
to discriminate against the poor and the lonely
in the society in preference to an erring
society. Misleads by the fortunes tellers to
whom the persona cries out. “You all Lie!”
The Omniscience and Omnipotence Of God.”
He that made all the stars you daily read” are
the asserted against the mortality of the
fortune tallors mortality of the fortunes tellors
whose “dunlan things.Not how,but whom the
fall”.
(12)
Theme of the power of the sun
over Everything:
The poet admits to the power of
the sun and its influence in
Changing things. He asks the
readers to look round if they are not blind,
and report to him the
noticeable changes brought by the
sun in the environment. He further
asks them to examine history and
see how the sun which in This case,
controls time, has inflicted death on kings
with its power. “ask for
those kings whom thou saw’st
yesterday, and thou shalt hear ‘all
here in One bed lay'”.
Another theme is the theme of the
poets dislike for distractions in His love
affairs: the poet is unhappy
with the way the sun uses its
beams to disturb lovers by waking
them up. Unfortunately, he is
unable to control his anger and
raids insults on it. “Busy old fool, unruly sun,
why doest thou thus,”
He wants the sun not to distract
love affairs because love is not
controlled by season, climate,
hours, days or months.
The final thEme is the theme of
indispensibility of the sun: despite
the insults raided by the poet on
the sun because of its distractions
or intrusions in Love affairs, he
accedes to the fact that the sun is
indispensible. He says he has the power to
close his eyes against the
sun to show its powerlessness but
cannot do so for long. “I could
eclipse and cloud them with a wink;
but, that i would not loose her
sight for long”. From line 25 we see the poet
conceding to the usefulness of the
sun because it brings joy to the
people and urges it to warm the
world which is its duty and into his
bedroom. “Shine here to us, and thou art
everywer; this bed thy centre is,
these walls thy spheres.”
UNDER MAINTENANCE