Thinking activity on Bob dylan&Robert frost

 

About Robert Frost

Robert Frost, in full Robert Lee Frost, (born March 26, 1874, San Francisco, California, U.S.—died January 29, 1963, Boston, Massachusetts), American poet who was much admired for his depictions of the rural life of New England, his command of American colloquial speech, and his realistic verse portraying ordinary people in everyday situations.

Q:1write down the message you want give from your lyrics

Here I choose the poem of Robert Frost which is My favorite  poem is  road is not taken because in the lines of this poem gives an idea about real life situation.

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,

And sorry I could not travel both

And be one traveler, long I stood

And looked down one as far as I could

To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,

And having perhaps the better claim,

Because it was grassy and wanted wear;

Though as for that the passing there

Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay

In leaves no step had trodden black.

Oh, I kept the first for another day!

Yet knowing how way leads on to way,

I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh

Somewhere ages and ages hence:

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—

I took the one less traveled by,

And that has made all the difference

Summary of the poem

The Road Not Taken Summary is a poem that describes the dilemma of a person standing at a road with diversion. This diversion symbolizes real-life situations. Sometimes, in life too there come times when we have to take tough decisions. We could not decide what is right or wrong for us.

Explanation of The poem

The first two lines of this stanza introduce the dilemma that every human faces, not The first two lines of this stanza introduce the dilemma that every human faces, not once, but multiple times in his or her life; the dilemma of choice. We as people go through many circumstances and experiences in our lives, and one of them is choosing between two (or more) paths.

This is experienced literally: in the roads we take and the routes we walk daily, and figuratively: when we come to points in our lives where we must make decisions for our next steps, based on the opportunities presented to us. And like the character in ‘The Road Not Taken,’ oftentimes, we are disappointed that we cannot hold on to, and experience the consequences of every opportunity that is presented to us. In order to gain some things in life, we must let others go.

By having the character in the poem examine the roads ahead of him, Frost is emphasizing that we all try our best to guess what lays ahead for us in every opportunity that we are presented in an attempt to find some control and later comfort over our final decisions. We like to take our time in order to make informed decisions so we can justify our choices when the regret of missing out on the other “roads” starts to haunt us.

In this second stanza, lines six through eight: the individual in ‘The Road Not Taken’ finally makes a decision and chooses a road that he thinks and believes is better, because it looked like not many people had walked on it before.

However, in lines nine and ten, he is quick to add that the other road looked equally used in comparison to the one he chose, so it really was not as less traveled as he was telling himself.

These lines are important because they clarify the common misunderstanding that one road was less traveled than the other since the character clearly states that both roads were “really about the same.” The diction in this stanza portrays the uncertainty of the character as he tries to justify to himself that his decision is the right one for him; and much like anyone else, he is trying to realistically weigh the outcomes of both roads.

In this last stanza, lines sixteen and seventeen, the individual predicts that one day far into the future, he knows will tell the story of this decision that he is now making.

Lines eighteen and nineteen expose that he intends to lie and claim he took the less-traveled road. In reality, both were equally traveled.

Finally, the last line expresses that the individual is also planning to claim that his choice to take this less traveled road made all the difference, in where he will be standing at the time.

My views regarding the lyrics of the poem

As the poem says that there are two roads but which one  have to choose it can not decide because there is restrictions  of society. As the poet says that it may be ages and ages gone through but we have not freedom to express our thought. If we express our thoughts we must be controlled by the rules of the society.

 there is tone of hesitation and as we know that we all are living in some hesitation of our life as the central theme of the poem that we have no individuality to choose something and if we express that we must go through the standard of the society.

(2).which poem or song realte with your video why?

All poems of Robert Frost realted with my video because all poems or songs mainly deals with nature here I attach video of nature.

As the robort Frost poems mainly deals with the nature here I attach video of nature as the nature gives the human peace as well a it also  gives some life lessons so here I attach video of that which also seen in the poem of road is not taken it also deals with nature.

THINKING ACTIVITY ON 1984

This blog is a response of thinking activity realted to 1984 in which the given task was what is dystopian fiction is 1984 is a dystopian fiction?

What is dystopian fiction

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, a dystopia is "An imaginary place or condition in which everything is as bad as possible." The easiest way to think about Dystopian Literature and dystopias is to consider that a dystopia is often the result of a society's arranging its government and laws around good.

In the context of 1984 it is obviously  dystopian  novel but as it is describe  in defination the novel is deals with the same idea.

As per characterstics  of dystopian  novel is as given below

1.Government Control

Government plays a big role in dystopian literature. Generally, there is either no government or an oppressive ruling body.

In this text it can be seen that , the world is under complete government control. The fictional dictator Big Brother enforces omnipresent surveillance over the people living in the three inter-continental superstates remaining after a world war. There no big brother visible in the whole film but it is only idea which control the people of their country the dialouge  is repeated and it is "Big Brother is watching you" this only idea in  this novel. This novel also deals with  the same kind of idea so it can be called as dystopic novel.

2.Technological control

Advanced science and technology in dystopian works go beyond tools for improving everyday life—technology is often depicted as a controlling, omnipresent force and is often used as a fear-mongering tactic.

In 1984 there is similar kind of situation as described  above 1984”, by George Orwell, the government of the fictional country Oceania uses technology, particularly telescreens to control and spy on it’s citizens. Fear is put into their heads and prevents them from speaking out nor even thinking negatively about the government. The telescreens are constantly watching which also means Big Brother (another name for their government) always know their locations and what might they being doing. Technology is making our current world more like “1984” because of the cameras always watching us and the people who have the available phones or cameras.

3.Loss of Individualism:

How should the needs of society as a whole compare to individual needs? Many dystopian futures depict the dangers of conformity.

In the 1984 there is also loss of individualism even there is no freedom of express thoughts of self that's  why Winston keep the diary  with him but  to keep diary with self is also risky. There I even no freedom of speech everything under control of big brother there is no existence of individual thinking other word it can be said as lost of individuality in the dystopian novel. 

 Conclusion 

So, to sum up this there is same characterstics of dystopian novel as well as 1984 also deals with the same kind of thought.

So, The 1984 novel is also known as dystopian novel

Artist of the floating world

This blog I as response of thinking activity of artist of floating world

About Author

Ishiguro is one of the most celebrated contemporary fiction authors writing in English. His first two novels, A Pale View of Hills and An Artist of the Floating World, were noted for their explorations of Japanese identity and their elegiac tone. He thereafter explored other genres, including science fiction and historical fiction. He has been nominated for the Man Booker Prize four times, winning the prize in 1989 for his novel The Remains of the Day, which was adapted into a film of the same name in 1993. Salman Rushdie praised the novel as Ishiguro's masterpiece, in which he "turned away from the Japanese settings of his first two novels and revealed that his sensibility was not rooted in any one place, but capable of travel and metamorphosis".^[1] Time named Ishiguro's science fiction novel Never Let Me Go as the best novel of 2005 and one of the 100 best English-language novels published between 1923 and 2005.

About the text

An Artist of the Floating World (1986)^[1] is a novel by British author Kazuo Ishiguro. It is set in post-World War II Japan and is narrated by Masuji Ono, an ageing painter, who looks back on his life and how he has lived it. He notices how his once great reputation has faltered since the war and how attitudes towards him and his paintings have changed. The chief conflict deals with Ono's need to accept responsibility for his past actions, rendered politically suspect in the context of post-War Japan. The novel ends with the narrator expressing good will for the young white-collar workers on the streets at lunchbreak. The novel also deals with the role of people in a rapidly changing political environment and with the assumption and denial of guilt.

in the task is given as per below.

 Debeat on using of art

1.Art for art sake/aesthic delight

2.Art for earning money

3.art for nationalism

4. art for propaganda and government

5.art for poor people

As  the text is basically deals with the idea of art so here I give the answer realted to the idea of art.In the play there are various angle of art. Which is covered by Kazuo ishiguro in which Firstly he talks about that art is for art sake  as we relate it to text so it can be seen that when masuji was a child at that time he has no any demands he is painting  because I gives him  aesthetic delight, by that it can be understand that in childhood masuji draw painting because it is stress relief or enjoyable activity for him. But as the novel moving further it is  seen that masuji goes at the class of his teacher seiji moriyama  where he learned  the painting name ukiyoe from that direction masuji goes towards the earning money for business and he go at Takeda firm where the purpose  of art move from aesthetic to business.

Now Masuji met Chisu Matsuda who is nationalist and because of his inspiration towards nation Masuji changed his purpose from Art :For Business to Art: for nationalism .

Then it comes towards art for propaganda  and power of government  and because of this aspect masuji became tolerant  for kuroda as well as many artists of that time .

From this aspect of nationalism Masuji changed his attitude towards art for poor people and he drew the paint of complency to eyes to the horizon .

Long day's journey into night

Long day's  journey into night 

About Author:

Eugene Gladstone O'Neill (October 16, 1888 – November 27, 1953) was an American playwright and Nobel laureate in literature. His poetically titled plays were among the first to introduce into the U.S. the drama techniques of realism earlier associated with Russian playwright Anton Chekhov, Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen, and Swedish playwright August Strindberg. The tragedy Long Day's Journey into Night is often numbered on the short list of the finest U.S. plays in the 20th century, alongside Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire and Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman.

About the play

Long Day's Journey into Night is a play in four acts written by American playwright Eugene O'Neill in 1939–41, first published posthumously in 1956. The play is widely considered to be his magnum opus and one of the finest American plays of the 20th century.

Characters:

James Tyrone(Protagonist)

Mary Tyrone(wife of James tyrone)

Jamie tyrone(elder son of James tyron)

Edmund tyrone(younger son of james)

Cattlemen.        (Maid of the house)

Summary of the play

O’Neill’s autobiographical play is a shattering depiction of a day in the dreary life of a couple and their two sons. James Tyrone, a semiretired actor, is vain, self-obsessed, and miserly; his wife, Mary, feels worthless and retreats into a morphine-induced haze. Jamie, their older son, is a bitter alcoholic. James refuses to acknowledge the illness of his consumptive younger son, Edmund. As Mary sinks into hallucination and madness, father and sons confront each other in searing scenes that reveal their hidden motives and interdependence.

 Theme of addication :

The Theme of addiction  is can be seen in the character of Mary. Mary has a habit of addiction  of drug which is quite well represented  in the last scene when she was wearing the gown of her wedding and recalls her golden years but she can not remember about this.

The plot of Long Day's Journey into Night focuses on a dysfunctional family trying to come to grips with its ambivalent emotions in the face of serious familial problems, including drug addiction, moral degradation, deep-rooted fear and guilt, and life-threatening illness.

, the Tyrone family's past and present have been so dire that normal coping mechanisms (family love, togetherness, etc.) can't keep up. So what do they turn to for relief? Alcohol and drugs. These forms of retreat might numb the pain, but they also bring their own problems – Mary's constant zoning out and Jamie'sinability to hold down a job, to name two examples. There's also a vicious cycle involved in all of this: Mary takes drugs and the Tyrone men drink to escape, but they also feel bad about doing so, leading them to snipe at one another even more maliciously.

TRANSDANTALISM

Introduction :

This blog is a response to my thinking activity on transcendentalism. It is an American movement. Here Firstly I shared   the viewpoint of poets and  writers related to nature then I shared my view on this. 

What is Transdentalism?

Realted to this topic here are two questions as thinking activity , here I gave answer of this questions as per my understanding.

( 1)What are your views about nature?

So,  in this point there is two major writers who shared their views on the nature

Ralph Waldo Emerson :For Emerson, nature is not God but the body of God's soul—"nature," he writes, is "mind precipitated." Emerson feels that to fully realise one's role in this respect is to be in paradise. He ends "Nature" with these words: "Every moment instructs, and every object; for wisdom is infused into every form.

Henry David throue :When Thoreau perceives nature, he sees an inexhaustible source of wisdom, beauty, and spiritual nourishment. He regards it with great respect and awe while also having with it an intimate familiarity and comfort.

My views on nature:Nature is a source of silence  by which you can  share every joy and grief with nature. Nature is a source of wisdom which gives you wisdom at every stage of your life. It gives pleasure  as well as answers to all your problems. In nature there are trees, birds and many other things which give lessons for life  as birds teach  you that you can fly in the whole sky but it is your responsibility to take care of your own flying.

2.

Transcendentalism is an American Philosophy that influenced American Literature at length. Can you find any Indian/Regional literature or Philosophy that came up with such similar thoughts?

Ans:Transcendentalism  mainly deals with three aspects and these aspects are

1 Individualism

2 Idealism

3 Divinity of nature

As transcendentalism influenced many American texts likewise it also influenced Indian literature for example  the white tiger of arvind adiga deals with individuality. In which adiga tries to define India.

2.idealism

Instead of valuing logic and learned knowledge as many trandentalist do at that  time but in this aspect it is placed by imagination  and creativity. 

In the Indian literature poet vinod joshi who wrote a poem of sairandhri also deals with the same kind of idea.

3 Divinity of nature 

Transcendentalists didn't  believe in organised   religion  but  they were  very spiritual.  They believed that humans have a close connection with  nature. As Wordsworth describes nature, the same kind of idea this aspect has.