Ajit Kaliya

"La Belle Dame sans Merci" is a poem by John Keats. Title is in French whose English meaning is that the beautiful lady without mercy. The poem starts with a knight,  who is isolated and very sad. He seems near death. knight is in a pathetic physical and emotional state. Then he starts to tell what did happen to him? In his journey encountered a beautiful fairy in the woods with whom he felt in love with. This mysterious fairy lady has long hair and light foot. He started courting her, making her garlands and letting her ride his horse. The knight forgets all about his duties as a knight and spends his entire day in the company of this fairy lady. The fairy invites him to her cave where she offers him food. The knight was lulled into a sleep. In his sleep, he sees all the knights and men the fairy seduced and that they were all dead. The knight then woke up alone, finding himself abandoned by the fairy lady. The knight is totally devastated by the disappearance of the fai...

'The Old Woman' is simple and short poem by Joseph Campbell where he compares old woman with different things and describes her. The poem has three stanzas. .In  the first stanza , the poet compares the old lady with the white candle. White colour is symbol of peace and candle is symbol of light. The old woman is like white candle. She is in peace and she gives other people light by his experiences. She is able to show right path who need that. In the second  stanza, the poet compares the old lady with the spent radiance of the winter's sun. It refers old woman's long life. But now she is old like winter's sun, but she has gathered a wide experience of life. Poet writes, "A woman with her travail done" In last stanza, the poet compares the old woman with the water under the ruined mill. The water is still under the ruined mill and by comparing this poet writes about the old lady that her all sons has gone, they do not live with her. But she has all the...

'The Great Dictator' is a political satire on Adolf Hitler released in 1940. Though there is no name of Hitler, by dictator's hatered for Jews and sending Jews to concentration camp clearly suggests it is satire on Hitler. This film also directed, produced, written and starting by Charlie Chaplin. He has played double role and this is his first real talkie. It was controversial and also very popular. Film starts with war. One Jews barber during war saves one officer. After that story takes place twenty years later. That barber had lost his memory and he runs away from hospital to his home in Ghetto. Tomainia country has dictator named Adenoid Hynkel. His face is same as that barber. This matter plays very important role in the end. Jews people tortured by storm troopers. After many events in the end Hynkel captures when hunting ducks because soldiers believe him barber and barber, dressed like Hynkel and Schultz go for addressing large crowd of people. Barber as Hynkel gi...

As the title says, 'The Modern Times' gives picture of modern era negatively. The film is produced, directed, written and starting by Charlie Chaplin, released in 1936. Genre of the film is satirical comedy. Chaplin has successfully picturised real situations of the age with comedy. Modern era was time of industrialisation, of machinery and because of this so many people were jobless and so poverty was so much. Which called the great depression. From the first scene, Chaplin starts to give his idea that human life has became mechanical. Chaplin appears as factory worker. Factory owner keeps watch on everyone and controls them. Even after work Chaplin remains in a state that he fit the bolts everywhere. This suggests that man's life has become so much mechanical that he forgets real life. He loses his job for misbehaviour and sends to jail. After that his journey of meeting poor girl, finding and losing job, going to jail, their dreams, their struggles continues till the ...

Modernist literature is quite difficult to understand and when it comes to the poetry, it even becomes more difficult. Though meaning of the words can be understood, meaning of the poem is difficult to understand. These ten poems demands thinking and their shortness makes us to think more. In first poem 'The Embankment', there maybe characteristic of universal mutability. Poet says that once he had found ecstasy in finesse of fiddles, but now hard pavement is stuff off poesy. It also suggests change of subject.   Poet also asks God to make blanket of the sky so he can wrap it and sleep. Because the world is home and our home is not permanent home. Once speaker was rich but now he is on pavement. In the second poem 'Darkness' we can find characteristics like pessimism and escapism. Poet stops to find shining star in the bog hole. But he finds silver ribbon of light instead. He looks at it and moves on. He maybe pessimistic that he did not satisfy by silver ribb...