Winners don't do different things, they do things differently.

Winner's dont do different things, they do things differently-
Today the world is running behind money,  everyone wants to win the world everyone wants to be successful but very less people be great.  There were many freedom fighters but some great fighters who gave revolution through their works are well known.
People who are winners who are successful they never lose ,  they are ever ready to accept their failures and work over it to win the world. There are 50 students in the class everyone is taught same and together but only 1 tops the class because his/ her way of learning is different.  They are never satisfied with what they have their thrust for knowledge and they top.
Winners compete with themselves they improve their work and succeed.  Loosing hope is the sign of loosers and improvement brings out winners. Winners have the distinctive quality that most people lack in themselves that is excellence.

Every cloud has a silver lining

Every cloud has a silver lining-
It means that one should never be hopeless because difficult times always lead to better days.
This proverb is usually used to encourage the person to overcome his difficulties and enable to see positive way ahead.
Sometimes a shining sun is covered by the cloud which causes darkness all around, but the tinted shade around the cloud shows the presence of light behind it. It is used to convey a notion that no matter however  the situation is there is always a positive aspect behind it. Sorrows and grief are temporary,  happiness is always followed by bad times. Happiness is valuable after grief. This proverb teaches to not to lose hope and stay inspired in every situation. It reminds us to be optimistic and hopeful.  Like the silver tint on the edges of cloud, happiness lurks behind the darkest hour. 

Yussouf —James Russell Lowell

Yussouf

The poem Yussouf is written by American poet James Russell Lowell. He was born on 22 February, 1819 and died on 12 August, 1891. His literary movement was Romanticism. Yussouf is short story written in the form of poem. 

Rhyming Scheme of Poem- ABABCC

It is an interesting poem spreading life values like kindness and forgiveness. The main theme of the poem is –

“As one lamp lights another, no grows less,

So nobleness enkindleth nobleness:"

The poem is about an Arab man Yussouf and is hospitality to an outcast Ibrahim in-spite he slew his son. Poem exhibits Yussouf’s good nature, service, kindness and forgiveness. The ending of the poem shows the struggle between revenge and forgiveness.

A stranger came one night to Yussouf's tent

Saying, "Behold one outcast and in dread,

Against whose life the bow of power is bent,

Who flies, and hath not where to lay his head;

I come to thee for shelter and for food,

To Yussouf, called through all our tribes "The Good.' "

Once a stranger who was abolished from his society came to the Yussouf’s tent. Yussouf was sheikh. Stranger came to Yussouf and seeked for shelter and food. Stranger was followed by his enemies and if they caught him he will be killed. Stranger was in fear and had no place to lay his head; he had no power to run more. He prayed Yussouf for help appreciating him to be famous with title 'The Good' all over his tribe.

'This tent is mine,' said Yussouf, ' but no more

Than it is God's; come in, and be at peace;

Freely shalt thou partake of all my store

As I of his who buildeth over these

Our tents his glorious roof of night and day,

And at whose door none ever yet heard Nay."

Yussouf warmly welcomes to the stranger and claims the tent to be God's. He expresses that God is everyone's father we all are his children, whatever owned by Yussouf is all owned by the Stranger. He permits stranger to eat and drink from his entire storage. This stanza shows the kind nature of Yussouf. He never refused anyone for the help and stranger was too welcomed in it. No one heard "nay" in the Yussouf's tent.

So Yussouf entertained his guest that night,

And, waking him ere day, said; 'Here is gold'

My swiftest horse is saddled for thy flight,

Depart before the prying day grow bold.'

As one lamp lights another, no grows less,

So nobleness ekindleth nobleness

Yussouf helped stranger from starvation. Third stanza showed the nature of humanity. Humanity is virtue every human being should develop. Yussouf woke stranger in 'ere day' - before sunrise. He gave stranger some gold coins to survive in the deserts and his basic needs. Yussouf granted him his 'swiftest' horse to run away from prying eyes of the people, and save his life.

Two lines of the stanza-

"As one lamp lights another, no grows less,

So nobleness enkindleth nobleness:"

Is the main theme of poem. As one lamp helps to enlighten the other lamp similarly kind and noble man inspires other to cultivate these qualities in them.

That inward light the stranger's face made grand,

Which shines from all self-conquest; kneeling low,

He bowed his forehead upon Yussouf's hand,

Sobbing: "O Sheik, I cannot leave thee so;

I will repay thee; all this thou hast done

Unto that Ibrahim who slew thy son!"

The service given by Yussouf to the stranger enlightened his inner light. He bowed to Yussouf sobbing, Stranger self conquest himself to Yussouf and accepted his crime for killing Yussouf's son. Stranger bows to Yussouf and requests to take his revenge and give him a chance to repay for his deeds.

'Take thrice the gold,' said Yussouf, 'but no more

into the desert, never to return,

My one black thought shall ride away from me:

First-born, for whom by day night I yearn,

Balanced and just are all God's decrees;

Thou art avenged, my first- born, sleep in peace!'

Sheikh Yussouf was shocked and sat motionless. His mind started struggling between revenge and forgiveness. He gave thrice the gold coins and asked Ibrahim to leave. Ibrahim's guts to confess his deed decreased the feeling of revenge in Yussouf. He orders Ibrahim to go away and take the thought of revenge from him. He didn't want to be less noble by refusing to redeem him. He feels giving up the thought of revenge would only make his son sleep in peace.

The poem shows the struggle in Yussouf's mind between revenge and forgiveness. The confusion to return evil for evil or good for evil. Ibrahim was culprit for him but he was also his guest and he cannot punish guest. Here the Indian custom - 'atithi Devo bhava' is reflected. At the end Yussouf pleases God for forgiving both of them. Yussouf for keeping revenge in mind and Ibrahim for murdering his son.

I hope this blog is useful to you, please comment if you have any queries.

The Slave's Dream - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

THE SLAVE'S DREAM

Henry Longfellow Wadsworth 

                                                             The poem the slave's dream is written by the American poet Henry Longfellow Wadsworth. He was born on 27 February 1827 in Portland, marine, and died on 24 march, 1882 in Cambridge Massachusetts. He has two spouses and six children. He was a commanding creature in the nineteenth century. His works include Paul river's ride, the song of Hiawatha, and Evangeline. he was the first American to translate Dante Alighieri's divine. majority of collections were voices of the night, ballads, and other poems. he also wrote lyric poems and was criticized for imitating European styles.

About poem:

                       The poem the slave's dream is a long narrative poem it describes the slave's dying moment as lost in a dream. The poem describes the lost dreams and ambitions of a slave. our country has faced slavery to Britishers. poetry describes the feeling of hurt, pain, and memories of the family experienced by a slave. the poem describes the physical gesture of the slave, his dreams, his memory of family, and the way he looks towards his life as a free man.

Let's see the poem in detail...

Beside the ungathered rice he lay,

His sickle in his hand;

His breast was bare, his matted hair

Was buried in the sand.

Again, in the mist and shadow of sleep,

He saw his Native Land.

The physical image of a slave is portrayed in the first stanza of the poem. he is tired of the work assigned to him and sleeping in fields. The phase ungathered rice and sickle in his hand indicates that his work is yet incomplete. His bare breast represents the bareness of his life as a slave and matted hair buried in sand indicates the death slowly creeping over his body. as he sleeps his dreams take him to his native land.

Wide through the landscape of his dreams

The lordly Niger flowed;

Beneath the palm trees on the plain

Once more a king he strode;

And heard the tinkling caravans

Descend the mountain road

The slave is back to his homeland through his dreams. Entering his homeland he transformed into a king he rides his horse and surveys the palm trees on the plain where the lordly niger river is flowing. He hears the tinking caravans of travelers descend from the mountains. This vast expanse of land in his dream gives the smell and happiness of independence, there is the movement for freedom, and slaves avails for opportunities. This stanza shows the slave's cravings for freedom.

He saw once more his dark-eyed queen

Among her children stand; 

They clasped his neck, they kissed his cheeks, 

They held him by the hand! 

A tear burst from the sleeper’s lids 

And fell into the sand.

The third stanza shows the slave's desire to meet his family.  The slave is a respected family head, he saw his lovely wife and their adoring children. His family grasps his hand and they affectionately kiss his face. Though he is sleeping, the slave cries and his tears fall into the sand. the image of a beautiful loving family is created it shows how a slave is devoted to his family.

And then at furious speed he rode 

Along the Niger’s bank;

His bridle-reins were golden chains,

And, with a martial clank,  

At each leap he could fool his scabbard of steel 

Smiting his stallion’s flank. 

In the fourth stanza, we see how he perceives his life as a free man. He sees himself riding a horse at a furious speed with Golden chains as bridle reins warrior like he Smits his swords on his stallion's flank.

Before him, like a blood-red flag,

The bright flamingos flew;

From morn till night the followed third flight,

o'er plains where the tamarind grew,

Till he saw the roofs of coffee huts,

And he ocean rose to view.

Referring to the text, the fifth stanza is a continuation of the fourth stanza he sees himself following the flight of flamingos over the plains where tamarind was grown. He recalls the caffeine huts and the ocean through his subconscious.

At night he heard that lion roar

And the hyena scream,

And the river-horse, as he crushed the reeds

Besides some hidden stream;

And it passed, like a glorious roll of drums,

Through the triumph of his dream. 

In the sixth stanza he dreams sequentially of the lion's roar and hyena's scream and pictures himself crushing the reeds, listening to the river horse making a sound like a glorious roll of drums it passes his dream is triumphant as it successfully gives him a sense of freedom and happiness.

The forests, with their myraid tongues,

Shouted of liberty;

And the blast of the desert cried aloud,

With a voice so wild and free,

That he started in his sleep and smile

At their tempestuous glee.

The forests and deserts in the seventh stanza are personified with the quality of shouting and crying respectively for liberty and freedom. Forests are given the quality of having a human tongue which suggests a ' personification' figure of speech in the stanza. And the slave smiles in his dreams on his 'tempestuous glee' - characterized by violent emotions or actions.

He did not feel the driver's whip,

Nor the burning heat of day;

For death had illumined the land of sleep,

And his lifeless body lay

A worn-out fetter, that the soul

The last stanza of the poem describes how the slave was lost in his dream that he could not feel the driver's whip nor he felt the burning sun lying on the ground. A 'worn-out fetter' - the soul was thrown out of the body, and the lifeless still body was lying on the land of sleep. And with the width of meeting his family, he lost his life.

The poem is describing the situation of the people faced by Negros when the Britishers were ruling over them. The poem is about the period before the civil war when Negros were under slavery. The poem is an emotional poem in-sighting us the slave. This world is created by God with equal rights but humans started ruling over other humans and started dominating. Humanity is being destroyed. 

Poem: Light

                                                 LIGHT

                    The poem the light is written by a British poet and translator F.W.Bourdillon. He is also known as bibliophile and scholar. he was born on 22 march 1852 in Runcorn, united kingdom and died on 13 January 1921 in Midhurst, United Kingdom. Francis William bourdillon is popular for his short poems. He is famous for his single short poem Light: night has a thousands eyes. He also published many collections like among the 'flowers and other poems', 'minuscula: lyric of nature, art and nature'. He also published novels and translated books. 

                    The poem light is of two stanzas of total eight lines. The poem is perfect example of Personification. the rhyme of poem is a-b-a-b. The poem is based on love. different elements of nature is used to symbolize love. poem says as we cannot survive without sun similarly we cannot survive without love in the world.

                    The theme of  poem is love, love is force of nature, most profound emotion the human experiences. Love can be towards anyone animals, family, nature, friends, work, partner etc.  love encompasses strong and positive emotional and mental states. The best technique to evaluate love is happiness. Happiness is directly proportional to love. Love is a condition of mind brought by serenity of soul, it is state of peace. Light of love is power for human being.

'The night has a thousand eyes,

and the day but one;

yet the light of the bright world dies

with the dying sun.'

                    In the first stanza poet describes about the stars as the thousand eyes of the night and about the sun as only eye of the day. Day have only one star yet the whole world dies sinks in darkness when the sun dies. In this stanza stars, sun and world are personified by giving human qualities. stars are compared with eyes and world and sun is given quality of dying. Where the word dying is associated with humans. Thus here poet uses personification figure of speech. 

'The mind has a thousand eyes,

and the heart but one;

yet the light of whole life dies 

when love is done.'

                    The second stanza says that the mind have thousand thoughts, it never remains empty without thoughts. While, heart thinks only in one direction. Last two lines of the poem yet the light of whole life dies when love is done. It states even mind have more thoughts when heart falls in love it stops the mind and its thousand eyes are of no use. One falls in love the life dies, thoughts stops and only heart beats. Last in two lines whole life dies also shows that once a person falls in love he sees nothing else then love which destroys his/her life or when the beloved leaves you alone you loose your own-self

                    The poem concludes that the entire human life depends on love. life is dark without love. Thus, by using personification the poet draws attention of the reader towards the love and loved ones in life.            

Poem: La Belle Dame sans Merci

LA BELLA DAM SANS MERCI

What are poems?

Poems are the best form of literature. It is a piece of writing arranged in short lines in a musical manner and rhythm. Poems comprise of few lines, few lines of poem give great moral of life. poems express one's thoughts and feeling in the best expressive way and are the best way to convey emotion or ideas to the reader's or listener's mind. We get three words Poesy (the creation), poet (the creator), and poem ( the created) from the Greek verbs. Different forms of poetry are Ballads, sonnets, Doha, and rhyming completely. Poems are the oldest, ancient form of literature.

Through poems, the hearts can be won soon. Fredric P. Saboteur said, " I have won many female relations with this valid resource."

The great poets of English literature are William Shakespeare, William Wordsworth, John Keats, Emily Dickinson, D.H. Lawrence, Rabindranath Tagore, Henry Longfellow, and many more.

About the poet of the poem LA BELLE DAME SANS MERCI.

John Keats - Romantic poet

John Keats was born on 31 October 1795 in London he was an English Romantic poet. He was one of the main figures of the second generation of Romantic poets, despite his works having been in publication for only four years before his death. He died at the young age of 25 suffering from tuberculosis on 23 February 1821 in Rome.

Although his poems were not generally well received by critics during his lifetime, his reputation grew after his death, and by the end of the 19th century, he had become one of the most beloved of all English poets. The poetry of Keats is characterized by sensual imagery, most notably in the series of odes. This is typical of romantic poets, as they aimed to accentuate extreme emotion through an emphasis on natural imagery. Today his poems and letters are some of the most popular and most analyzed in English literature.

Some of the most acclaimed works by Keats are “Ode to a Nightingale”, "Sleep and Poetry", and the famous sonnet "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer".

About the poem LA BELLE DAME SANS MERCI.

Summary:

The speaker of the poem comes across a "knight at arms" alone, and apparently dying, in a field somewhere. He asks him what's going on, and the knight's answer takes up the rest of the poem. The knight says that he met a beautiful fairy lady in the fields. He started hanging out with her, making flower garlands for her, letting her ride on his horse, and generally flirting like knights do. Finally, she invited him back to her fairy cave. Sweet, thought the knight. But after they were through smooching, she "lulled" him to sleep, and he had a nightmare about all the knights and kings and princes that the woman had previously seduced – they were all dead. And then he woke up, alone, on the side of a hill somewhere.

O what can ail thee, knight-at-arms,

Alone and palely loitering?

The sedge has withered from the lake,

And no birds sing.

In the first stanza, the speaker questions the knight who is 'alone and palely loitering.' What's the pain to the knight that he looks ill. The edge of the lake is withered and there are no birds singing this indicates it is the time of evening or autumn or the early winter that birds are migrated.

O what can ail thee, knight-at-arms,

So haggard and so woe-begone?

The squirrel’s granary is full,

And the harvest’s done.

The knight at arm doesn't answer the question immediately, in the second stanza poet repeats the question. The second stanza gives two more adjectives to knight in pain 'haggard', and 'woe-begone'.

Last two lines of the stanza the squirrel's granary is full and the harvesting in the field is complete shows that it is sure late autumn.

I see a lily on thy brow,

With anguish moist and fever-dew,

And on thy cheeks a fading rose

Fast withereth too.

The third stanza is giving the physical appearance of a knight in pain. The speaker in the third stanza is still addressing the knight, 'lily of thy brow' signifies the knight is depressed or is in tension. his face is as pale as a lily. The words 'moist' and the 'fever drops' obviously prove that the knight is sick. In the last two lines of the stanza the face of the knight is compared with the fading rose it says how the color of the knight is fading away due to pain and depression.

I met a lady in the meads,

Full beautiful—a faery’s child,

Her hair was long, her foot was light,

And her eyes were wild.

Suddenly in stanza four, the knight answers the unnamed speaker. He reports that he met a beautiful lady in the meadows, she was a fairy- 'faery's child' princess from heaven. He describes the physical appearance of the lady he met. She had beautiful long hair, the knight described his graceful movement and her eyes were wild. she attracted the knight and made him fall for her.

I made a garland for her head,

And bracelets too, and fragrant zone;

She looked at me as she did love,

And made sweet moan

The fifth stanza shows the love moments between the knight and the lady. The knight makes the 'garland'- a flower wreath for the lady's head and 'bracelets' too which enhances the natural perfume. Lady with love in her eyes and moaning showed that she was feeling in love with the knight with every passing movement.

I set her on my pacing steed,

And nothing else saw all day long,

For sidelong would she bend, and sing

A faery’s song.

Stanza sixth is a continuation of stanza fifth the knight takes the fairy lady for a a ride on his horse -'pacing steed' doing nothing whole day. they enjoy each other's company and the fairy lady sings the fairy song for knight.

She found me roots of relish sweet,

And honey wild, and manna-dew,

And sure in language strange she said—

‘I love thee true’.

Fairy lady to show up her love for knight brought him some relish sweets - 'honey wild and manna dew.' The fairy lady tells the knight that she loves him, but she says it "in language strange." He doesn't say what language it is, or how he's able to understand her. Maybe he's just hearing what he wants to hear, or maybe her magical influence has enabled him to understand her "language strange."

She took me to her Elfin grot,

And there she wept and sighed full sore,

And there I shut her wild wild eyes

With kisses four.

In the eighth stanza the fairy lady takes the knight to her 'Elfin grot' a sort of magical place knight associates with fairy creatures such as elves. Suddenly reaching the cave the fairy lady bursts into tears cries out loud- 'sighed full sore'. The knight tries to soothe with his kisses that shut her “wild wild eyes”—words that suggest he has fallen in love with a creature that he cannot possess.

And there she lullèd me asleep,

And there I dreamed—Ah! woe betide!—

The latest dream I ever dreamt

On the cold hill side.

By the ninth stanza the knight comes to the present duration he further describes his horrible dream which made him loitering alone on the sedge. the fairy lady 'lulled' him to sleep and he dreamt, the memory of dream exclaimed him 'ah! woe betide!' which explained lot grief and sorrow. It was the last and the latest dream he dreamt on the cold hillside.

I saw pale kings and princes too,

Pale warriors, death-pale were they all;

They cried—‘La Belle Dame sans Merci

Thee hath in thrall!’

In the tenth stanza of poem the knight describes his dreams, the knight sees kings, princes and warriors they all were in 'death pale' the fact is the word pale is repeated thrice in the the stanza. The pale warriors, kings and princes were crying out loud ' LA BELLE DAME SANS MERCI.' Finally we reach to the title of the poem in tenth stanza; the title is in french translating it it is " a beautiful lady without mercy (pity). kings, warriors and princess cried out 'in thrall' with power.

I saw their starved lips in the gloam,

With horrid warning gapèd wide,

And I awoke and found me here,

On the cold hill’s side.

The knight continues to describe the pale warriors from his dream – in the 'gloam,' or dusk, all he can make out are their 'lips.' Their mouths are 'starved' and hungry-looking, and their mouths are all open as they cry out their warning to the knight. suddenly, the kinght wakes up from the dream finds himself on the cold hillside, feeling the deathlike cold of his dream and looking like the sad figure.

And this is why I sojourn here,

Alone and palely loitering,

Though the sedge is withered from the lake,

And no birds sing.

In stanza twelve, the knight notes that his experience with the lady is why he remains in this bleak (bare) setting, alone and feeling that he has lost the love of this beautiful figure that haunts and blights not only his life but also the world in which he finds himself. And the first stanza of the poem is repeated with the answer.

This deceptively simple tale written in a ballad style, featuring short lines and romantic longings, evokes the human yearning for an eternal, imperishable love, a bond that outlasts death and that conquers mortality. To lose the lady is tantamount to a kind of death for the knight. Thus, John Keats uses the medieval setting as a kind of allegory, a symbolic representation of what love represents. To the lover, the beloved is a fairy creature usually associated with perfection and with the desire to do good and to protect the loved one.

Meanings:

ail- pain

thee- you

pale- without energy

sedge- a grass- like plant

haggard- looking exhausted and unwell

woe begone- sad or miserable in appearance

anguish- mental or physical pain

withereth- become dry

meads- meadows

garland- a wreath of flowers and leaves, worn on the head or hung as a decoration

pacing steed- horse

elfin- having to do with elves

grot- cave

lulled- calm or send to sleep

hath- have

thrall- power

gloam- dusk

gaped- become wide open

sojourn- a temporary stay

Night out on bhavnagar beaches

NIGHT OUT AT BHAVNAGAR BEACHES.....

Our life is all about new experience and recently i had a new, adventurous and beautiful experience. I visited a night camp, it was on the beaches of  Bhavnagar. It was organised by sun adventures organisation. we often visit to beach with friends or family or relatives but this was something different, I got new experience of spending whole night with nothing but only just water all sides.

This night camp was organised on 23rd April 2016 night. Firstly we  had to gather at B.M.Commerce school ground at Ghogha circle, Bhavnagar at 6:30 PM. We had to take light bedding and dinner with us. I was so much excited for this camp that every passing minute was hard to wait. The best part of this camp was now, for what camp gave us thriller experience, that was we were going to beach in a truck, which many of us have never experienced at all. I enjoyed that truck ride it was amazing. we went in three trucks.

We started with the beach of Ghogha, Bhavnagar. We were having approximately 7 volunteers and 2 sir for our safety. After reaching there were were given guidance about not to go near beach in dark, to walk in single line and all. Then we all had dinner, we were many friends together and made  few new friends. It was like 32 types of pakwans in dinner. Different different taste with everyone.

Now, we were going to start walking. But before that we were shown few stars and constellations. We everyday look at sky, many of us all have little knowledge about universe. We studied in science that  we can see Jupiter planet with naked eyes. But gazing at sky we never tried to notice that? Even i m one of them. We were shown shaptrishi constellation, kite shaped constellation etc. We were also shown Jupiter planet  and Dhruv star.

Then we started walking form Ghogha. I was feeling that it would be the first time i was feeling to nature. It was amazing walking on sand in the moonlight admiring beautiful stars. Walking walking walking we reached to Kuda beach. We had rest there for half hour. Then again we started walking towards our destination which was Koliyak beach.

In starting we were full of energy so walking was just enjoyed but after leaving Kuda legs started paining and were tired. Then to we enjoyed a lot.

Then finally we reached Koliyak Bhavnagar beach. Koliyak is famous for temple Nishkalank in the ocean.

At Koliyak we reached near 2:00 AM. there was a temple, at terrace of that temple we were given rest whole night. We were asked to sleep if one wishes but my friends and me were awake whole night and had fun whole night.

It was wonderful to hear voice of waves of oceans colliding with land, it was as if waves are giggling. At early morning sweet chirping of birds, rising sun with orange sky it was the feeling as if i was in the lap of nature.

At 6:00 AM in the Sunday morning we were at the edge to complete our camp we all got collected at beach. We had a group photo and then again went to our thriller ride, truck. To return back to Bhavnagar. 

While coming we all were not able to control our eyes from getting close. During that time only had a aim to awake. We were divided in three trucks. At this time it was a battle going on between trucks. When trucks were over attacking each other all threw water on each other but slowly when shortage of water started we started throwing buttermilk and curd on each-other. It was so enjoyable.

I enjoyed a lot and am excitedly waiting for next years camp.