Book Review of Maatal Haowa

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Wyatt’s “Farewell, Love” presents a quite pessimistic view of what love is. In each line the speaker characterizes love in a different way, each of which reveals an equally negative view. The text of the poem reads

Farewell, Love, and all thy laws forever,

Thy baited hooks shall tangle me no more;

Senec and Plato call me from thy lore

To perfect wealth my wit for to endeavor.

In blind error when I did persever,

Thy sharp repulse, that pricketh aye so sore,

Hath taught me to set in trifles no store,

And ‘scape forth since liberty is lever.

Therefore farewell, go trouble younger heart,

And in me claim no more authority;

With idle youth go use thy property,

And thereon spend thy many brittle darts.

For hitherto though I have lost all my time,

Me lusteth no longer rotten bows to climb.

In the first line the speaker rejects love by saying “farewell” to it forever. Not only does he say goodbye to Love, but the speaker also rejects Love’s “laws.” To suggest that Love has laws defies the idea of this abstraction as fanciful and pleasant. Instead, the reader is forced to see Love as having structure, boundaries, rules, and restrictions. The next line characterizes Love as a dangerous beast with hooks. The fact that the hooks “tangle” the speaker shows that, in his view, Love is confusing and easy to get caught up in. The next two lines suggest that to submit to Love is to be witless. Thus the speaker characterizes Love as something that should be reserved for uneducated idiots, and that those who sharpen their minds will not be dumb enough to fall prey to it. Lines five and six continue the speaker’s negative analysis by saying that Love repels, instead of embraces the speaker. No matter how hard the speaker “persevered” to obtain Love, it was always beyond his reach. Furthermore, the speaker suggests that Love’s rejection of him never ceased to be hurtful. In the next line the speaker says that Love is a trifle. According to the Oxford English dictionary a trifle is, “a false or idle tale told to deceive, cheat, or befool.” By describing Love as a trifle, the speaker asserts that it is almost evil because it aims to deceive and harm. Line eight continues by suggesting that to submit to love is to lose freedom. Thus, according to the speaker, Love makes people into slaves. The next four lines suggest that the speaker feels he is too old, and possibly too emotionally tired, to be bothered by love. He says that Love is for young people who still have the strength to sustain the troubles that Love inflicts. Furthermore, Love is given a weapon by the speaker to inflict pain on those who are struck by its’ arrows.

Wyatt’s poem definitely represents the most negative view of Love I have seen in awhile. What I think is most interesting about this poem, though, is that each line has within it a different evaluation of the danger and uselessness of Love.

The Soote Season

The soote season, that bud and bloom forth brings,

With green hath clad the hill and eke the vale;

The nightingale with feathers new she sings;

The turtle to her make hath told her tale.

Summer is come, for every spray now springs,

The hart hath hung his old head on the pale;

The buck in brake his winter coat he flings;

The fishes flete with new repaired scale;

The adder all her slough away she slings;

The swift swallow pursueth the flyes smale;

The busy bee her honey now she mings,

Winter is worn that was the flowers' bale.

And thus I see among these pleasant things

Each care decays, and yet my sorrow springs.

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My Poem

Book Review of Trackers

BOOK REVIEW

TRACKERS

By

Bani Basu , Kolkata : Annada Publishers, Pages- 160, Price- 150.

A combination of first person narrator and at the same time third person narrator in a single novel has made  Bani Basu’s ‘TRECKERS’ peculiar as well as different from her previous novels. People who are interested in the life of young generation and also the attitude of aged people towards society especially towards the young generation of present time, and the reader of the different taste, in terms of style, story and also characterization, are to be considered as the target reader of this novel. Unlike most of the novels of the writer, there are two parallel stories which run side by side from the beginning and to the end. In one story, the author as a first person narrator, Dhrubo Jyoti Majumdar describes the reality which he and his family face. In the other story, the author as a third person narrator narrates about true accident. To present this before the reader the author takes help of mixing imagination and reality. These two parts present a common problem of all the young girls of all classes. Actually this hard reality is transferred from the author’s real life to imagination. At one level writer strongly criticizes the life style of young generation especially who are under-graduate of kolkata. At the same time the author also portraits the out look of aged people who can never see any thing better among the young generation and their conservative outlook towards different social issues and problems. There is a subtle irony in this book. On the one hand Dhrubo Jyoti Majumdar and his wife are bringing up three rootless girls for their children on the other hand their neighbor Bijoy Sur did not accept these girls as their won girls, he always call them their servants. Political influence on police is strongly described in this work to conjure up the two stories in the end. And author himself is confused about his imaginative characters. In the last part, the Narrator in his sub-conscious mind sees one of his imaginative characters. Arian asks him “At last you have made me a rapist!” and rests of the characters also say that “you aged people can not see anything better which young generations do”.

In a nut shell this novel is an out an out criticism of modern life. The author deep delves to find out the darkness of life style of young generation.

This book remains good   for its page quality, hard binding, print. Well illustrated cover design gives clue of the main theme of the story. There is no typological mistake in this book; the price of this book is not high. Everybody can afford to buy this book at an easiest effort. The author charms the reader through different style and mixing up a real accident with imagination.