Full
Fathom Five Thy Father Lies
William Shakespeare
“Full
Fathom Five Thy Father Lies” is
beautiful song taken from William Shakespeare's play The Tempest, Act I Scene II. The Spirit Ariel sings the song to
Ferdinand, a prince of Naples, who mistakenly thinks that his father is drowned
into the sea.
Ariel is a spirit who is a very comic
and miraculous character. He flies up invisibly and plays music and song. In
the given poem, he gives sympathy to Ferdinand, the prince of Naples, who is
very sad on the death of his father. The Spirit Ariel tries to make the death
meaningful with his melodious description. The Spirit Ariel says that
Ferdinand’s father has been drowned into the sea. His body has been lying 30
feet below at the bottom of the sea. His bones have been changed into corals
and eyes into pearls due to sea – change process. Nothings of his parts of the
body have been destroyed. But his whole body has changed the sea into something
valuable and strange. The sea nymphs are hourly ringing the death bell
producing song ‘Ding-dong’. At last, the Spirit Ariel asks Ferdinand to listen
the sound of the bell.
Thus, William Shakespeare through the
song of Spirit Ariel talks about immortality of life. He means to say than life
does not die but changes to other forms. So, the death of Ferdinand’s father is
meaningful. Death is nothing but just a medium of changing life from one form
to another. Life after death is permanent whereas life itself is ephemeral.
Essay on “life and art”
It seems to be difficult to define
‘life’ and ‘art’. Life is mysterious and art is the imitation (copy) of life.
So life and art are interrelated parts. Life creates art and art provides
delight to life. Without any interest in art is a dead life, so art and life
are inseparable.
Art is related to creation and life is
related to experience of happiness, sadness, laughter, tears, joy, certainties
and uncertainties. But art brings success in life.
Life is transitory. It changes in
different phrases in course of time. A small baby of yesterday becomes a young
man today and old tomorrow. Eventually, he disappears from the world resting on
the lap of death. Life comes across different sweet and sour events. Life is
mixture of tears and smiles. Pain and pleasure are the friends of life. In
other words, life is full of emotions, feelings, ideas and sentiments.
Hurried Trip to Avoid a Bad Star
Lilla, M & Barry, C. Bishop
The people of Karnali zone depend economically upon the lowland regions to the south, especially Nepalgunj. Most of the people are farmers. But their farm product is not sufficient to them because it can’t support them. So they have to sell and buy things for their day to day livelihood. According to the writers, the people of Karnali carry different local products such as herbs, sweaters, baskets, blankets and so on to Nepalgunj to sell them there. Some people take Silajit with them and sell it Nepalgunj. After selling their products, they return with cotton cloths, jewelry, pots, spice and distillery equipment to Karnali. Some people go to the lowland regions to get government and private jobs. However, mostly people are uneducated and superstitious. People of Karnali, moreover, combine their farming with trading. They have been struggling for their livelihood.
People of Karnali are conservative and they follow the good star when they leave their homes. Similarly, they are not aware of ecological and environmental degradation. The skeletal looking SAL trees indicate about the exploitation of nature. It shows that they are indifferently cutting down the trees and they are not worried about the jungle and their own future. They are only solving the present problem. It seems that they are not conscious of their future. They don’t know the fatal consequences of the degradation of nature. Actually they are hopeless because they must solve their present problem.
Essay on “Youth & Age"
Life is a journey from womb to tomb. A person has to cross different phases of life where if he lives a full life. A child of yesterday becomes a young today and old tomorrow. Eventually he or she disappears from the world and lives in his permanent home, the grave. So youth and old age are two sides of life. They are completely different but inseparable just like two sides of paper.
Youth is the most interesting and important phase of human life. A person becomes physically healthy and mentally sound in the phase. He or she becomes courageous to do any adventurous (risky) work. Youth is energetic and romantic too, young people keep interest in love and politics. Most of them don’t care about past and future but try to make the present perfect. They spend much time with friends in entertainment and creative activities too. If they make the best use of this phase, they can make their future bright. We find some young people misusing their time of youth and damaging their future.
Old age is rather miserable phase of human life. A person becomes physically weak and mentally forgetful. He or she spends much time at home remembering the happy days of his/her youth. He or she expects help from young people to do any work. He or she keeps interest not in romantic love but in family, love and religion. He or she wants to visit temples and so many other holy places. He or she likes to tell young people the story of young people according to his or her own experiences. However, unlike joyous youth, old age is bitter and painful. So, old people are very much passive, dull and pessimistic.
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