Bob Dylan and Robert Frost

Hello, I am Emisha Ravani. Writing this blog for the thinking activity given by Vaidehi ma'am, in the American Literature. Here we have to do is, merge the five chosen shots and upload the video on own you tube channel which is prepared by us.

• Write down the message you want to give from your lyrics.

The lyrics i used is from the bollywood movie "Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara".

Jab jab dard ka baadal chhaya

Jab gham ka saya lehraaya

Jab aansoo palkon tak aaya

Jab yeh tanha dil ghabraaya

Hum ne dil ko yeh samjhaya

Dil aakhir tu kyun rota hai?


Duniya mein yun hi hota hai

Yeh jo gehre sannate hain

Waqt ne sabko hi baante hain

Thoda gham hai sabka qissa

Thodi dhoop hai sabka hissa


Aankh teri bekaar hi nam hai

Har pal ek naya mausam hai

Kyun tu aise pal khota hai

Dil aakhir tu kyun rota hai

It says that our lives are like roller coaster. We all deal with ups downs one by one. As we expecting only happiness in all ways. If we don't experince sorrow we never know that what is happiness or how we can make it feel.

By the first shot of leaf we can get,

RISE, EVOLVE, GET OLD.

By the second shot of birds we can see that sorrow is not something we only feel. All are facing something and something.

WHATEVER HAS HAPPENED IS HEPPENING

WHATEVER IS HAPPENING HAS ALREADY HAPPENED IN PAST.

By the third shot of boat we can interpret that ,

LIFE IS JOURNEY OF CONSTANT STRUGGLE. 

By the forth shot we can see that every moment is new to us we should enjoy it in a joyfull way. Like there is an ant which is struggling even to find way.

JOY IS EVERLAST CURE.

By the last shot of video i tried to cover the relaxing nature.

BE WATER TO FLOW, BE CLOUD TO ROAM, BE BIRD TO FLY.

It says that every moment is new and fresh to live. Whatever is happening it is not happening with us only it is happening to everyone. Further it deal with idea of joy that every second has own joy then why we are not absorbing that joy! 

• Which poem/song of Bob Dylan/Robert Frost is relatable with your video. why?

 I think with my work the poem by Robert Frost "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" is going. Let's see the poem,

Whose woods these are I think I know.

His house is in the village though;

He will not see me stopping here

To watch his woods fill up with snow.

My little horse must think it queer

To stop without a farmhouse near

Between the woods and frozen lake

The darkest evening of the year.

He gives his harness bells a shake

To ask if there is some mistake.

The only other sound’s the sweep

Of easy wind and downy flake.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep,

But I have promises to keep,

And miles to go before I sleep,

And miles to go before I sleep.

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

The speaker continues to stand near the woods, attracted by the deep, dark silence of his surroundings. He feels compelled to move further into the snowy woods, but 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.'

So, Here we can see that Robert Frost also saying that "KEEP GOING". Which in my video i tried to cover the whole idea of go on in the life , There must be struggle and sorrows in the way but keep going is ultimate truth.On the other side there is stuff about distractions. And it can be internal or external, though poet is saying that everything is beautiful but i only keep going on the way.

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Criticism : I.A.Richards Practical Criticism Poems Reading

CRITICISM : I.A.RICHARDS PRACTICAL CRITICISM 

Hello, I am Emisha Ravani. In this blog we are supposed to do practical criticism of given poem by Dr.Dilip Barad. In this task we are not allowed to read the background of the poem, The writer, The Period of the poem or the situation in which the poem is written, keeping the poem away from its external connections. We are just going to do the texual or physical analysis.

In this task i am going to deal- with the poem:

Oh Jerusalem, the city of sorrow

A big tear wandering in the eye

Who will halt the aggression

On you, the pearl of religions?

Who will wash your bloody walls?

Who will safeguard the Bible?

Who will rescue the Quran?

Who will save Christ, From those who have killed Christ?

Who will save man?

(Nizar Qabbani: “Jerusalem! My Love,My Town:)

A big tear wandering in the eye

Who will halt the aggression

On you, the pearl of religions?

Who will wash your bloody walls?

Who will safeguard the Bible?

Who will rescue the Quran?

Who will save Christ, From those who have killed Christ?

Who will save man?

(Nizar Qabbani: “Jerusalem! My Love,My Town:)

Watchwords : Aggression, Religions, Bible, Quran, Chirst

When we look at this poem very first time, We can get that this is the poem where specker and listener are there. Because the first line of poem is in the form of adreessing to something or someone. This is the general idea of the first outlook. Then as we go further we will reach to the "Jerusalem", there we find that here the poet talks about a city if we are aware about the places. He says that "the city of sorrow", we can find the tragic flow towards "Jerusalem". 

Furtherly, "A big tear wandering in the eye", it seems like "A cry of a city". From the third line of the poem, Poet starts the questioning. But here we should concern about the one's 'anxiety' in the form of questioning. And on going poet continuesly asking questions like, 

On you, the pearl of religions?
Who will wash your bloody walls?
Who will safeguard the Bible?
Who will rescue the Quran?
Who will save Christ, From those who have killed Christ?
Who will save man?

By, these questions the poets may showing the historical contaxt of the city Jerusalem.The holy city which was situated in Israel. (we can see here the history of the city Jerusalem). And also poet wants to show the sorrow of the poeple after wars. Poet tried to neglected the scary religious prectices and ideas.

When we look to the last line we can find that there is said that "Who will save man?". It is showing that poet is craving or insisting Humanity over any religious perspectives.

Understanding the Zeitgeist of the 20th Century : From Modern Times To the era of Great Dictator

 UNDERSTANDING THE ZEITGEIST OF THE 20TH CENTURY : FROM MODERN TIMES TO THE ERA OF GREAT DICTATOR

Hello, I am Emisha Ravani, Writing this blog as response to the thinking activity given by Dr.Dilip Barad. For The movie screening of Modern Times and Great Dictators. Here i will discuss frame study of The Graet Dictator.

'The Great Dictator' is a satirical movie rather than comic one. It is American comedy movie, in the time of 1940. And it is satire on Adolf Hitler. It is the movie which is very successful at that time and till today we can find. And the two main characters are like,

A Jewish Barber , Charles Chaplin 

Hannah, Paulette Goddard

We can easily find that it is about world war time of Hitlar, 1918.

This frame is showing that Hynkel party takes power. It means the dictator is going to kill many people.

Here, We can see that how propaganda is working by setting of symbol of own paery.

Adolf Hitler was one, Who had power of political speech. Too huge amount of people used to come to listen him. This is very significance to look to this frame, which is telling that "only the voice of Hynkel was heard."

This is how peaple were used to "Hail! Hynkel".This statue has satireical tone even.

"Ghetto" is the place where Jews were living there.

At the jew's places or shops, Hynkel's people come and write 'jew'. So it is directly atteck to economy.

Hynkel was so greedy to get rule over the entire world and this frame is helping us to see his greed.

How people were shifting thier self to another place cause of the Hynkel's harrecement.

The last statement of Hynkel is too affective as we can this only sentence How at last whe was craving for the real estimate.

The positive tone of entire film is this emotion of Hannah.

You can find his last speech here in above video.

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Understanding the Zeitgeist of 20th Century : From Modern Times to the era of Great Dictator

UNDERSTANDING THE ZEITGEIST OF 20TH CENTURY : FROM MODERN TIMES TO THE ERA OF GREAT DICTATOR

Hello, I am Emisha Ravani, writing this blog as response to the thinking activity given by Dr. Dilip Barad. For the movie screening Modern Times and Great Dictator. Here i will discuss frame study.First we will have look on The Modern Times by  Charlie Chaplin, where he worked as directed and other all work to make the movie.

Charlie Chaplin as a factory worker (The Tramp)
Paulette Goddard as Ellen Peterson "The Gamin"

These both are the protagonists of the movie. The male protagonist is The Tramp and The female protagonist is The Orphan girl who is alone. They both are represnting the of 1936.

This is the frame which is showing certificate of the cencer british board 

of that time.

Charlie Chaplin was multitasking person and he did all the various works to make movie by his own.

This is very significant frame of the movie like, it is the beggining of modern age and also that how people following the clock in the workplace.

In the clock , There is 6 o'clock. Perhaps it is showing that the sunset of humanization. Or rise of industrialization and mechanization. 

These above two frames are showing the similar situation of the sheeps and people of that time. The  

This frame is for look on urbanization. How people were suffering by the machinaries. 

Here the factory owner is playing with jigsaw puzzle. 

This frame is saying that how different times represent what is the matters 

Assembly lines are the most commonly used method in the mass production of products. They are reduce labor costs. And the result come out as people become jobless.

The Tramp is working on the giant machine is very famous scene of the movie .

This frame is saying that, How humans were getting struggle into over load of machinary. The situation occured in a only way you have to work for your basic needs.

This is how people were suffering from the starvation and they were jobless so they steal the food and fullfill their own very basic need of hungriness.In a time of period they become thief.

This is the end of the movie where Charlie Chaplin wants to convey the message that struggle will never end in one's life , just do not quit. This is very positive light of the movie."sing, Never mind the words."

The video clip , There was the very rapid flow of inventions. And here the male protagonist is become the victim , Like those men came and the factory owner make him as a trial man. This scene is showing that, How factory owner were having craving for the work though they were not wanting the workers to waste their time into eating.

By the movie screening of The Modern Times(by clicking on this you can reach to the full movie) we can get the very clear idea about the 20th century's various aspects. 

(You can click here to reach to the frame study of The Great Dictator)

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