Thinking Activity on Verbal analysis of the hymn and song

 Hello readers,

Myself  Latta Baraiya and I'm a student of the department of English, MKBU. in this blog I'm going to analyse one or two poems and from them we can learn many things. This task is assigned by our Prof. Dr. Dilip sir head of English department, MKBU.

Only studying the syllabus is not only way of education. Seeing and understanding other forms of literature and learn from them is also one type of education. We see and we learn and the learning process doesn't need any text. We also learn from movies, songs, hymn, couplet etc. So let's see some song and understand what the song gives us a lesson and what it's want to tell us. 

1】Mandir Me Murat Ki wo…

◆Lyrics of the song:-

Mandir me Murat ki wo pooja kis kam ki hai

Jab kisi apne ke ghar roti na sham ki hai.

Bhukhe logo ka koi dharm nahi hota hai

Unka bhi dil hota hai unka bhi dil rota hai

Aao ek kam kre…

O...O...O…

Aao ek kam kre…

Nayi sharuat kre Jaino ka man badhaye

Jinko jarurat ho hamari unke ham kam saye

Paiso ko chod ke ab ham apno ko gale lagay

Chod apne paraye…

O… O… O…

Chod apne paraye 

Insaniyat dikhaye

Jinko jarurat ho hamari unke ham kam aapye

Paiso ke liye aaj ham apno se lad rahe hai

Fir jake mandiro me dan dharm kar rahe hai

Ye sab dikhava mana duniya me chal jayega

Marke prabhu se kese najare mila payega 

Aao ek kam kare…

O… O… O…

Aao ek kam kre nayi sharuat kre Jaino ka man badhaye 

Jinko jarurat ho hamari unke ham kam aaye paiso ko chod ke ab ham apno ko gale lagaye 

Chod apne paraye…

O… O… O…

Chod apne paraye 

Insaniyat dikhaye

Jinko jarurat ho hamari unke ham kam aapye 

Jinko jarurat ho hamari unke ham kam aapye.

This is a bhajan. In the first reading, this hymn make me emotional. But it's not appropriate as student of literature, I have to think critically. In this song we can see that it's song for poor people who even can't afford their one time meal. Besically the song is tell to Jain people for doing help to poor people, but it's appropriate with other religion also. 

We see that many અન્ધભક્ત are there in society, who believe in idolatry. They believe that god is in idols, but they forgot that god is everywhere. They don't need any shape or idol. They believe in worship that idol rather then doing help of needy people. But the thing is that What is the use of that worship in the temple when there is no bread for our some people to eat. 

આપણે જોઈએ તો શિવરાત્રી માં ભગવાનની શિવલિંગ પર કેટલું દૂધ ચડાવવામાં આવે છે. એ દૂધ છેલ્લે જાય છે તો ગટરમાં જ ! પણ લોકો એ દૂધ ને કોઈ જરૂરિયાતમંદ ને આપતા નથી. આને માત્ર દૂધ નો બગાડ કર્યો જ કહેવાય. ભગવાન શિવ એ દૂધ પીવા કાઈ આવવાના નથી, તો યોગ્ય એ છે કે એ દૂધ કોઈ જરૂરિયાતમંદ ને મળે. પણ આ વાત આપણા લોકો ને સમજાતા હજી સદીઓ વઇ જાશે. 

ભગવાન જગન્નાથ ને 36 ભાત ના ભોજન ધરો તો પણ જગન્નાથ એ જમવા આવવાના નથી. હનુમાનજી ને ગમે તેટલું તેલ ચડાવો એ કઈ પીવાના છે નહીં. તો આપડે એ જગ્યા એ બગાડ ન કરતા જેને એની જરૂર છે અમને આપીએ. 

Next poet say that Hungry people have no religion. They also have a heart and their heart also hurts. Poet wanted to let us do a new starting for helping other people who need our help. We have to help him. Nowadays money is becoming more important rather than human being. So poet wants to tell us that stop running behind money and start to be with people. Here is fine lines, 

Paiso ke liye aaj ham apno se lad rahe hai

Fir jake mandiro me dan dharm kar rahe hai

In this lines we see how the things are happening in our society. We are fighting with our near and dear one only for money. And then we are going to do donation in temple, masjid, gurudvara etc. How hypocritical people are !!!! This is what happened in whole India also ! We are pretending like we are developing country, but the development is increase in caste, com, class etc. In India people known by their caste and class. This is our biggest weakness. And this is the time that we have to be aware. This bhajan also suggest us that we have to help others who need our help, and do help without seeing any caste or class. 

With the using of literary form like poetry, song, hymn the poet spread awareness through their work. So this all form also the source of information and also of knowledge. 

2】Bhagvan hai kaha re tu...

◆Lyrics of the song:-

Hai suna ye poori dharti tu chalata hai

Meri bhi sun le araj mujhe ghar bulata hai

Bhagwan hai kahan re tu

Hey Khuda hai kahan re tu

Hai suna tu bhatke mann ko raah dikhata hai

Main bhi khoya hun mujhe ghar bulata hai

Bhagwan hai kahan re tu

Hey Khuda hai kahan re tu

Aa...

Main pooja karun ya namajein padhun

Ardaasein karun din rain

Na tu Mandir mile, na tu Girje mile

Tujhe dhoondein thake mere nain

Tujhe dhoondein thake mere nain

Tujhe dhoondein thake mere nain

Jo bhi rasmein hain wo saari main nibhata hoon

In karodon ki tarah main sar jhukata hoon

Bhagwan hai kahan re tu

Aye Khuda hai kahan re tu

Tere naam kayi, tere chehre kayi

Tujhe paane ki raahein kayi

Har raah chalaa par tu na mila

Tu kya chaahe main samjha nahin

Tu kya chaahe main samjha nahin

Tu kya chaahe main samjha nahin

Soche bin samjhe jatan karta hi jaata hun

Teri zid sar aankhon par rakh ke nibhata hun

Bhagwan hai kahan re tu

Aye Khuda hai kahan re tu

Hai suna ye poori dharti tu chalata hai

Meri bhi sun le araj mujhe ghar bulata hai

Bhagwan hai kahan re tu

Hey Khuda hai kahan re tu

Bhagwan hai kahan re tu

Hey Khuda hai kahan re tu.

by shashikant saidal. 

This is the song of movie PK. This song is written by Swanand Kirkire and Shantanu Moitra and it's sung by Sonu Nigam. 

In this song we also see a religious satire. People believe in many Gods and Goddesses. Not only in India in other countries people also believe in God and Goddess. But India is different one, who have lot many different Gods and each and every God have their own rules and methodes for worship. 

In this song we can observe that god is best adviser, who can help us in our bad time (actually we remember gods and goddesses in our bad time only). So here worshiper pray to God for help to go to his home. He is disappeared in the earth, he wants to go back home. So he pray god and ask them to help him. 

In India there are lot many regions. Like Hindu, Muslim, Jain, Shikh, Isai, etc. Also they have different methods for worshiping. They also have different rules and norms for worship. Their places are also known with different names. But the same thing in them is their devotion, faith, hope. Pk tried each way and he has hope that God can help him to go back home. He do everything which all religion person doing. But god is not listening him. So at last he realizes that there is no god who can help him to find what he want. The people are responsible for that.  

So here we can understand that praising and worshiping god is not a way of doing the work. We have to work hard for what we want. And what we wanted is also receive by hard work. God can't help us in this type of situation. In this song we also see that pk is wearing rings of defferent gods, Rudraksha garland, and wear wreaths. But it isn't work. We see in our areas also that people wearing that type of wreaths and rings for praising god and goddesses. But it's only blindness. God don't want that type of rubbish things. They want that human being can be a human being ! 

So this is my interpretation of this bhajan and song. 

Thank you! ! 

Thinking Activity on modern poems

The word modern creates an attractive image in our mind. When we think about it we can realize that it's something new among all. In the field of poetry we can also see the modern poems, which gives a new idea and new things to think. Here is a blog about modern poems. This task is given by our professor dr. Dilip sir, the head of the department of English, MKBU. So let's discuss some of the modern poems.

The first thing which we have to understand is ,

What is Modernism ?

Modernism is a period in literary history which started around the early 1900s and continued until the early 1940s. Modernist writers in general rebelled against clear-cut storytelling and formulaic verse from the 19th century. Instead, many of them told fragmented stories which reflected the fragmented state of society during and after World War I.

Many Modernists wrote in free verse and they included many countries and cultures in their poems. Some wrote using numerous points-of-view or even used a “stream-of-consciousness” style. These writing styles further demonstrate the way the scattered state of society affected the work of writes at that time. 

Imagist poets generally wrote shorter poems and they chose their words carefully so that their work would be rich and direct. The movement started in London, where a group of poets met and discussed changes that were happening in poetry. Ezra Pound soon met these individuals, and he eventually introduced them to H.D. and Richard Aldington in 1911. In 1912, Pound submitted their work to Poetry magazine. After H.D.’s name, he signed the word "Imagiste" and that was when Imagism was publicly launched. Two months later, Poetry published an essay which discusses three points that the London group agreed upon. 

After clearing the concept of modernism let's have a look at modern poetry. 

Modern poetry refers to the verse created by the writers and poets of the 20th and 21st centuries. Modern movements such as Beat poetry and poetry slams also would be included. Modern poetry emphasizes less of a reliance upon the use of rhyme. Poetry is one of the oldest forms of literary art. Here are some modern poems. So let's see,

1)"The Embankment"

-T. E. Hulme

Once, in finesse of fiddles found I ecstasy, 

flash of gold heels on the hard pavement. 

Now see I 

That warmth’s the very stuff of poesy. 

Oh, God, make small 

The old star-eaten blanket of the sky, 

That I may fold it round me and in comfort lie.

The narrator’s calling himself a ‘fallen gentleman’ and using the antiquated ‘poesy’ make us think of him as a romantic, the first line seems, in rhythm and with the word ‘fiddles’, rather Irish. His ‘fantasia’ might be golden and ecstatic, but it’s contrasted with the ‘hard pavements’ and the need for ‘warmth’, ‘comfort’, and his anguished cry ‘Oh, God’, the grim reality of life on the streets. There is something of that wonderful, expansive sense of the world’s beauty which one feels when nicely drunk. A drunkard who dreams. But I also think that Hulme is referring to Oscar Wilde’s line from Lady Windermere’s Fan: 

‘We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.’

2)"Darkness" 

-Joseph  Campbell

I stop to watch a star shine in the boghole –

A star no longer, but a silver ribbon of light.

I look at it, and pass on.

Title itself presents negativity. The combination of darkness and boghole negativity in the air but then there is a star which is shining in boghole. Star in boghole may be symbolize as modern civilization in boghole, and no chance to rescue from that boghole that is why poet says a star no more. A silver ribbon may be as a symbol of hope. But when he just look at it and pass on it signifies disinterest, or may be with only hope poet don’t want to stay there and wait he wants his life to go on.  “Boghole” is modern metaphor.

3) "Image"

-Edward Storer

Forsaken lovers,

Burning to a chaste white moon,

Upon strange pyres of loneliness and drought.

The poem has a love theme and talks about abandoned lovers. Whom society cast off because of all beliefs of purity. Chaste white moon here symbolizes purity. Because they are abandoned they are suffering from loneliness and facing drought like life. It also can be about modern and new generations, whom past puritan generations don’t accept, they are burning because of their ideas about purity and they are alone and life has become like drought. White moon normally pursues a symbol of peace but here this moon is burning. “Forsaken lovers”, “burning chaste white moon” are modern metaphors. 

4) "In a Station of The Metro"

-Ezra Pound

The apparition of these faces in the crowd;

Petals on wet, black bough.

Here the poet talks about life on a metro station. The crowd of people in which no one is clear to eyes everyone is looking like a ghost. Poet here connects nature and modern busy life by comparing petals with crowds of people. After being for so long in water the bough of the tree becomes black same with a constant crowd of people the station has also become like black sick bough. “Black bough” is a modern metaphor. 

5) "The Pool"

-Hilda Doolittle

"Are you alive?

I touched you

you quiver trembling like a sea fish

I cover you with my net

What are you banded one?

We see in the poem that the title “pool” suggests something which has boundaries. May be here a poet talking about lack of freedom and the first question is “Are you alive?” which can be interpreted as the death of someone in shackles. Then it refers to the sparkle of sea fish may be here poet wants to say the capacity of a person is like sea fish but the person has to be in a cage. Cover with net also symbolizes restriction. 

6) "Insouciance"

-Richard Aldington

"In and out of the dreary trenches

Trudging cheerily under the stars

I make for myself little poems

Delicate as a flock of dovesin 

Thy fly away like white-winged Doves.

We see the effect of world wars and also have pictures of war in this poem. The location is France. Then the poet talks about the trenches which are on borders though all soldiers live in trench then even poet feel it like lifeless. In these lifeless trenches soldiers are marching cheerfully under the stars which means they have only one shelter, sky. On borders all soldiers are together but far away from family, here poets can entertain themselves by making poems. The soldiers are tough like rock but the poems created by him are as delicate as a flock of doves which stays for a while and then fly away. 

7) "Morning at The Window"

-T. S. Eliot

They are rattling breakfast plates in basement kitchens, 

And along the trampled edges of the street 

I am aware of the damp souls of housemaids 

Sprouting despondently at area gates. 

The brown waves of fog toss up to me       

Twisted faces from the bottom of the street, 

And tear from a passer-by with muddy skirts 

An aimless smile that hovers in the air 

And vanishes along the level of the roofs. 

This poem has the effect of world war and the poverty which war has brought to the nation. The jiggling plates in the kitchen, the edges of the street which is injured because of its over use. Souls of housemaids are wet, poverty increases without any hope. The fog is also brown. Twisted faces, as the poet is looking through the window on the streets faces twisting up to look at him. Passer by has dirty clothes and tears in eyes, smile is also aimless which vanishes in a few seconds. “rattling plates”, “brown fog”, “twisted faces”, “aimless smile” these all are modern metaphors here used.

8) "The Red Wheelbarrow" 

-William Carlos Williams

so much depends

Upon

a red wheel

Barrow

glazed with rain

Water

beside the white

chickens

This is quite a difficult poem to understand. I'm not getting the meaning of it but maybe it seems to say that too much dependency on anyone should be avoided. May be the example of a wheelbarrow that it can not move by itself, it is fully dependent on someone. Last lines are so confusing. “wheelbarrow”  is a modern metaphor. 

9) "Anecdote of The Jar" 

-Wallace Stevens

I placed a jar in Tennessee,

And round it was, upon a hill.

It made the slovenly wilderness

Surround that hill.

The wilderness rose up to it,

And sprawled around, no longer wild.   

The jar was round upon the ground   

And tall and of a port in air.

It took dominion everywhere.   

The jar was gray and bare.

It did not give of bird or bush,   

Like nothing else in Tennessee. 

We see here that poet is mixing nature and culture. Here the jar is doing dirty wilderness it surrounds the hill. Maybe the jar is transparent and as it is placed on a hill it can reflect everything in itself. Now it is more spread out, it is not wild but it is on the ground. Jar has its dominion everywhere it did not spare anything in Tennessee. The poet here may be talking about the government or any other nation and then 'I' becomes the people as we can assume by voting someone is selected, then hill here considered as crown or highest authority. Slovenly wilderness can be dirty politics. Then from that highest authority it took control over everything. At last poet says bird and woodlands are also under the control. “Jar on the hill” is a modern metaphor. 

10) "I(a"

-E. E. Cummings

“A leaf falls with loneliness”

Here we can see that the structure of the poem also suggests fall by loneliness as many characters are separated from each other and to make a word they have to be together. Here the poet talks about a leaf which is lonely means all other lives have already left the tree. Tree is barren and the only leaf remains which also falls because of loneliness. This poem also shows how a lonely human can not survive. It also reminds me of the short story by O’ Henry, “The Last Leaf” , about how the last leaf is a symbol of hope and that hope also dies. Maybe the poet also wants to talk about dead hope. 

Here is some interesting facts about modernism and modern poetry :

Creative Blog

Hello readers, today I want to give a review of the hindi poem "Mere Kavi Dost". This is the realistic poem written by Ramneek Singh and performed by Navazuddin Siddiqui and Ramneek singh both on the platform  Unerase Poetry. This is a satirical poem upon the system and the harsh reality of society and people. When I read the title of the poem I thought that maybe it's a poem about two friends. But when I heard the poem I understood that it's a poem which can do the work of awakening people. It's a poem about what is the role of poetry in our society. Through poetry great things happen.

If we think about poetry, as a student of literature we have to analyze the poem critically. Others are seeing poetry as a one tool of entertainment but it's a different thing for literature students to see any poem and see the meaning of the poem that is hidden. 

In this poem the poet wants to wake up us and tell us to question the system which is not doing the work which is our basic right. So we have to ask questions about this system. If we don't ask questions today, we won't be able to answer it tomorrow. The thing is that we have to question whenever we see injustice. Not only for ourselves but also for them who won't able to speak for themselves. And also we have to support them.

In the poem we can see that the poet tells us about a farmer. Farmers face lots of problems in their life but they never stopped raising food. They think about others, if their childrens are committed suicide despite they providing food. Their dwindle Abdomen and rich people's increasing abdomen's motion are equal nowdays. This is like poors are becoming more poor and rich people are becoming more rich. We see racism still in our society. And when something happened, leaders of the big comunity haven't at all noticed all these things. They even don't care about them. This is the time we have to ask questions to government and duces. In past when government investing money in temple and statues we didn't ask them that there is what need of all that stuff ? The necessary things are health and education. But we didn't ask question ! So now in corona pandemic the importance of hospital we can understand, but we can't give answers to the situation. So we have to make aware to government and ask them question on their steps  which is taken for us.

With the use of the language of poetry poets are able to spread awareness. This is one attempt among them. So here is the full poem... 

मेरे कवि दोस्त ।

-Ramneek Singh

मेरे कवि दोस्त वक़्त आ गया है 

कि कविता मंडलियों और जत्थों से 

आज़ाद होकर बीच सड़क पर धरना दे

तुम्हारी कविता मेरे कवि दोस्त

अपने महबूब से मिलने उससे बिछड़ने

उसके जाने पर खाली हुए मकान की

कहानी कह-कह कर थक गयी है

देश मूल्यों से खाली हो रहा है

ओछेपन ने नैतिकता को रद्दी

के भाव बेच दिया है

पत्रकारों को रंडी की औलाद कहना 

हो गया है हर बहस का 

आखिरी जवाब

किसान के घटते और बिल्डर

के बढ़ते पेट की गति समान हो गयी है

अनाज खिलाने वाला गोली खा रहा है

हमारी सड़कों पर छितरा

उसके पैर की छालों से निकला खून 

हमारे शहर के माथे पर कलंक है

अपने बच्चों को लटकता देख भी

वो हमारे बच्चों के लिए 

अन्न उगाना नहीं करेगा बंद

हमारी ख़ुदगर्ज़ी ने छोड़े होंगे 

हमारे अंदर इंसानियत के कुछ अंश

तो हम पूछेंगे सवाल

नहीं खाएंगे खाना 

जब हम पढ़ेंगे उनकी आत्महत्याओं के बारे में 

आज़ाद हिंदुस्तान के सीवेज पाइप में 

दम घुटकर मरता दलित

नफ़रत का दुकानें, धर्मों की लड़ाई में 

आहुति देतीं निर्दोष बच्चियां

बन कर रह गयी हैं राजनीति का सस्ता औज़ार

पर नेताओ के बड़े से बंगले के बाहर, 

बडे से गार्डन के आगे लगे 

बड़े से गेट के आगे बिछी 

लंबीसी पेवमेन्ट पर पड़ा 

सूखा पत्ता तक नहीं हिलता

और उसके टट्टू हर सवाल के आगे विकास का भोपू इतनी जोर से बजाते हैं के आधे लोग बहरे हो जाते है

और बचे हुए सवाल खुद भूल जाते हैं

ये कैसा दौर है,

चारो तरफ है भीड़,

दिशाहीन, विचारहीन, उग्र 

हाथो मे लिए चाकू, पथ्थर, मशाल

काटने, तोड़ने, जलाने घर

और दबाने आवाज

आवाज जो पूछती है सवाल

जो मंत्रीजी का चैन छीन लेती है

उसके संप्रदायिक जुबान पर चारों पहर पर देती है चौकस पहरा

मेरे कवि दोस्त तंत्र को फिर से कराना होगा अपना परिचय 

लोगों से, लोगों द्वारा, लोगों के लिए

एक बार मेरे कवि दोस्त 

मिलकर एक ही कविता का पाठ करते हैं

और चिपका देते हैं उस कविता को टाइम बम्ब की तरह हर उस किले के बाहर जिसके अंदर बैठा नेता नीतियां बनाता है

के कैसे खरीदे जाए सारे अखबार, 

घास के भाव बिल्डरों को कैसे बेचे जाए जंगल

कत्ल हीन पत्रकार को कैसे घोषित किये जायें नक्सली

वख्त आ गया है 

कि कविता राजा की चोकीदार न होकर सच की पहरेदार बने

वख्त आ गया है कि कविता पन्नो से आजाद होकर लाइब्रेरी के शेल्फोंसे गिर कर लड़खड़ाती हुई दीवारे फांदती हुई बीच सड़क पर आकर धरना दे

वख्त आ गया है मेरे कवि दोस्त

वख्त निकल रहा है

अगर आज सवाल नहीं पूछे तो कल जवाब नही दे पाएंगे

मेरे कवि दोस्त वख्त आ गया है

वख्त आ गया है मेरे कवि दोस्त ।

Here is the video of the poem also, if you want to listen the poem.

For read more poems visit Sir's blog 👉 click here. 

Happy reading 😊