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Name: - chintavan bhungani
Course: - M.A. English
Semester: - 3
Batch: - 2015-2017
Enrolment no: - PG15101006
Submitted to: - Smt. S.B.Gardi Dept. of English MKBU
Email id: - cnbhungani7484@gmail.com
Paper no: - 10 the american literature
Topic: - 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, discuss the philosophical meaning of the
poem.
ANS.
Introduction:-
Robert Lee Frost
was an American poet. His work was initially published in England before it was
published in America. He is highly regarded for his realistic depictions of
rural life and his command of American colloquial speech. The present poem is
one of best known poems –it reminded and inspired Nehru –service of humanity
and countrymen.
Robert Frost
(1874-1963), a poet of rare Pulitzer-Prize fame, who was hailed though
belatedly in 1961, by President John F. Kennedy as “an unofficial poet Laureate
of America”, is, the most widely read American poet in his own country as well
as abroad. Like the English Romantic poet, Wordsworth, Frost was a poet of
Nature, man and Human Life, but unlike Wordsworth Frost’s treatment of nature,
man and human life was altogether different from the treatment of the pioneer
of the English romantic tradition. It is the difference between the two that
establishes Frost as a unique poet of American experience.
Frost has been
called “A Poet of Nature”, “Poet of Paradoxes”, “Poet of Darkness”, “Poet of
Romanticism”, “Poet of Tensions”, “Poet of Barriers”, “Poet of Contraries”, and
above all “a modern poet”.
The present poem
of Robert frost can be considered as it poem of karma yoga or a person’s sense
of duty. No doubt the literally meaning of this poem is very simple but the
applied meaning is significant. Robert frost himself at a particular stage in
life worked as a farmer and it has been said that he could not gate expected
price of the products which he had gone to sell in the market. While coming
back in a wave of disbacked the present poem was composed.
The poet knows
whose woods they are and the owner lives in the village. He want mind if the
poet stops that for some time to enjoy the beauty of that place but when he
makes a pose there his horse considers it strange, uneven because there is no
farm house of is stable. The Morse realizes that it is and uneven pose because
that is the darkest evening of the year and the lake is also frozen the same
horse gives a shake to its harness bee to remind the poet that their pose there
is an uneven. The only other sound except of that bee is the whistling sound
because of blowing of the wind.
The poet is
reminded that the woods have got enough beauty they are lovely, deep and dark
but the poet has got many promises to keep before I sleep there he has miles to
go on and on.
The implied meaning of the poem is more appealing and
convincing. The poet knows whose woods they are but that person is not and
individual that owner is god almighty who watches everything. The presence of
horse also demands and interpretation it is not merely in this poem as an
animal but the inner craving of an individual which does not allow that person
to be in the company of nature. The horses reminding to the poet is a sign of
how man is occupied with material life which does not allow man to be with
nature.
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 last stanza of the poem in which the
poet describes the woods are lovely dark and deep has a note of Disperse it.
The word “dark” suggest poets dispatch or pessimism because he could not gate
expected price of his agricultural products. The sleep is not a common sleep in
the last two lines of the poem. Its stands for death and here this poem becomes
a poem of karma yoga. A man may a came across beautiful sights, places and
individuals but man must not make that the final stage, man should go on and on
doing is beauties and karmas. The day man stops performing his duty and karma.
It is a day of his death though that person may leave biologically. The lesson
of the poem is importance of karma in life and duty is more important than
beauty.
·
Rhyme
scheme of this poem :- a-a-b-a
·
Here
poem shows a simple meaning but its dark meaning is about life, death, sorrow
and journey. The simple lyric can be read/interpreted in various other ways
also. It reminds him that his journey has a purpose and ‘miles to go before’ he
escapes into dreamy world of snowy woods.
It
is not merely what poet once experience on one evening. it expresses the
conflict which everyone has felt, between the demands of practical life with
its obligations to others and the poignant desire to escape into land of
daydream/enjoyment. No overt symbolism. But this experience of poet symbolizes
experiences common to all. One has to fulfill certain duties; there are
promises to be fulfilled before one ‘sleep’.
The duties may of this world or the other
world. Promises may be those which are made to fellow being or to the supreme
being. Snow woods and beautiful evening is temptation-it may lead to loss of
consciousness. This loss of consciousness leads to normal death.
Ø Conclusion:-
At
the end we can say that ‘sleep’ is ‘reward’ one receives. ‘Sleep’ can also to
read to as ‘Nirvana’- Moksha. The ultimate release from the journey of life
–death –life. But still the soul has ‘miles to go before it achieves this blissful
state of sleep. Thus, the life is a journey; soul is mounted on the horse/
horse carriage. The traveler is tempted to deviate from his path. The worldly
pleasure attract soul .but the consciousness (bell) wakes or guards him and reminds
him of his journey and promises –but I have promises to keep/and miles to go
before I sleep. . Frost’s hired
man is a victim of the impact of industrialization on contemporary America. He
is exploited by others not only in the cities but even in the countryside.
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