The Motivational Adda

 Invictus: Full Poem Explanation, Summary, Theme, Poetic Devices and Related Questions:- Out of the night that covers me Black as the pit from pole to pole. I thanks whatever god may be, For my unconquerable soul In the fell clutch of circumstance I have not winced nor cried aloud. Under the bludgeonings of chance  My head is bloody but unbowed Beyond this place of wrath and tears Looms but the horror of the shade And yet the menace of the years Finds, and shall find, me unafraid It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll I am the master of my fate I am the captain of my soul. - William Ernst Henley Overview and Background: Invictus poem was one of the works that William Henley did when he was in the hospital; the poem was composed during his isolation due to early and life-threatening battles with tuberculosis. Henley publishes many poems in different collections, including "In Hospital," written between 1878 and 1875, and "A book of v...

Little Things: Poem Little Drop of water Little grains of sand Makes the mighty ocean And the pleasant land So the little moments, Humble though they be, Make the mighty ages Of eternity. Thus our little errors, Lead the soul away From the path of virtue Far in sin to stray. Little Deeds of Kindness Little words of love, Help to make earth happy, Like the heaven above.   - J.A.F. Carney Explanation: Theme and Overview: The poem "Little Things" written by "Julia A.F. Carney" is a simple poem written in four stanzas. Although the poem seems to be simple, the message it conveys in quite big. In the poem, the poetess asserts the values and importance of all those things which are small for us, and we generally don't give much importance to them. Poetess also wants to say those small things are much more important than many big things and without giving much importance to them we just wait for something big. And these small things also affect our lives to a lar...

Know the Summary, Theme, Analysis, Literary devices and related Questions and Answers of the poem:   The Laburnum Top:- Analysis The poem The   Laburnum Top is a free verse poem written in 15 lines. In the first stanza of the poem, the poet used literary devices like alliteration ( September sunlight ) , consonance ( consonant 'S' is prominent in the second line )  and assonance ( vowel 'I' is prominent in the first line ) . In the second stanza of the poem, the poet used literary devices simile ( sleek as a lizard ) , metaphor ( as a machine ) , alliteration ( the thickness and tree trembles ) . Now coming to the ending of the poem, the poet used poetic devices like the metaphor ( It is the engine of her family ) . And throughout the poem, the poet also used onomatopoeia many times in the poem like chirrup, chittering, trillings, whistle-chirrup whisperings . Summary In the poem, The poet portrays his experience of what he witnesses about the Laburnum tree . T...

 Easter Morning A stone at dawn, Coldwater in the basin These walls' rough plaster imageless After the hammering of so much insistence, On the need for naming after the travesties, that passed as faces. Grace: the unction of sheer nonexistence, Upwelling in this hyacinthine freshet, of the unnamed the faceless. - Amy Clampitt More Links: Quotes:  https://themotivationaladda.blogspot.com/search/label/Quotes Story:  https://themotivationaladda.blogspot.com/search/label/Story Jane Austen:  https://themotivationaladda.blogspot.com/search/label/Jane%20Austen

 Servants They come of Peasant stock Truant from an insufficient plot Lights are shut off after dinner But the city blur enters Picks modulations on the skin The dark around them. Is brown links body to body Or is dispelled And the hard fingers Glow as the smoke is inhaled And the lighted end of tobacco Becomes an orange spot Other hands are wide Or shut, it does not matters One way or other They sit without thoughts Mouth slightly open, recovering From the day, and the eyes Globe into the dim Bur are not informed because Never have travelled beyond this silence They sit like animals. I mean no offence. I have seen Animals resting in their stall The oil flame reflected in their eyes Large beads that though protruding Actually rest Behind the regular grind Of the jaws. - Gieve Patel Explanation The poem depicts the picture of servants who were farmers someday. Nevertheless, now they are discarded from their plot, and they are now helpless. And now the peasants are leaving their plot...

We are Seven Analysis: Summary The poem  "We Are Seven"  by William Wordsworth is a conversational poem between the speaker and a little child. The poem portrays the theme of life and death to the innocence of the child who is unaware of the death of their siblings and still thought that they are seven. The poet is astonished after seeing the innocence of the child. The poet also wants to illustrate here that the passage of time brings complexity to us. At young ages, we all used to be innocent and unaware of the overloads of life problems. In the poem, the minor child is oblivious to the fact that their siblings are dead. She still sings and talks to them for the reason as if they all are still alive. Whenever does the speaker ask the child- How many they all are? She replies with great innocence that "We Are Seven!". When the speaker asks where they all live? She answers that- Two of them are in a town named  Conway , and two of them at sea, next two lie beneath t...

Sonnet 65: Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea, But sad mortality o'er-sways their power, How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea, Whose action is no longer than a flower? O, how shall summer's honey breath hold out Against the wreckful siege of battering days, When rocks impregnable are not so stout, Nor gates of steel so strong, but Time decays? O fearful meditation! where, alack, Shall time's best jewel from times chest lie hid? Or what strong hand can hold his swift foot back? Or who his spoil of beauty can forbid? O, none, unless this miracle have might, That is black ink mt love may still shine bright. - William Shakespeare Theme: Sonnet 65 is the continuation of sonnet 64, in these sonnets, Shakespeare depicted the endless ravage of time on love and life. For him, Time is the ultimate destroyer, it destroys everything that anyone thinks is endless. The clutches of time are destructive, it des...

Father To Son I do not understand this child Though we have lived together now In the same house for years, I know Nothing of him, so try to build  Up a relationship from how He was when small. Yet have I killed The seed I spent or sown it where The land is his and none of mine? We speak like strangers, there's no sign  Of understanding in the air. This child is built to my design  Yet what he loves I cannot share. Silence surrounds us. I would have Him prodigal, returning to His father's house, the home he knew, Rather than see him make and move His world. I would forgive him too, Shaping from sorrow a new love. Father and son, we both must live On the same globe and the same land He speaks: I cannot understand Myself, why anger grows from grief. We each put out an empty hand, Longing for something to forgive. Summary: The poem ' Father To Son ' describes the relationship of a father with his son, which appears not so good in the poem. In the poem, the poet is disappoi...

Answers I KEEP MY ANSWERS SMALL AND KEEP THEM NEAR BIG QUESTIONS BRUISED MY MIND BUT STILL, I LET SMALL ANSWERS BE A BULWARK TO MY FEAR THE HUGE ATTRACTION- "I KEEP FROM THE LIGHT" SMALL THINGS I HANDLED AND CARESSED AND LOVED,  I LET, THE STARS ASSUME THE WHOLE OF THE NIGHT BUT THE BIG ANSWERS CLAMOURED TO BE MOVED INTO MY LIFE. THEIR GREAT AUDACITY SHOUTED TO BE ACKNOWLEDGED AND BELIEVED EVEN WHEN ALL SMALL ANSWERS BUILD UP TO PROTECTION OF MY SPIRIT I SHALL HEAR BIG ANSWERS STRIVING FOR THEIR OVERTHROW AND ALL GREAT CONCLUSIONS COMING NEAR - Elizabeth Jennings Summary: The Poem "Answers" describes how the poet slot the big questions and answers of life in their mind. In the poem, the poet says that she always stays good with short answers and always keeps them near. While the Big answers always hurt her, as they require more attention and thinking, they become harder to ignore and forget. Poet also says that to dodge the contest of big questions (like pain, hard...

I've a Pain in my Head I've a Pain In My Head' Said The Suffering Beckford; To Her Doctor So Dread. 'oh! What Shall I Take For't?' Said This Doctor So Dread Whose Name It Was Newnham. 'for This Pain In Your Head Ah! What Can You Do Ma'am?' Said Miss Beckford, 'suppose If You Think There's No Risk, I Take A Good Dose Of Calomel Brisk.'-- 'What A Praise Worthy Notion.' Replied Mr. Newnham. 'you Shall Have Such A Potion And So Will I Too Ma'am.' - Jane Austen Summary : The Poem "I've a Pain in My Head" written by Jane Austen is a short-story narrative type Poem written in 4 stanzas. In the poem, the action or interaction between a Doctor and a Patient is shown. Here in the poem, the patient is explaining their headache to the Doctor. The poem is written with a simple rhyme scheme and shuffled dialogues between the Doctor and Patient, which indicates their communication. To the ending of the poem, the Doct...

Childhood:- When did my childhood go? Was it the day I ceased to be eleven. Was it the time I realised that Hell And Heaven Could not be found in Geography, And therefore could not be, was that the day! When did my childhood go? Was it the time I realised that adults were not All they seemed to be, They talked of love and preached of love, But did not act so lovingly, Was that the day! When did my childhood go? Was it when I found my mind was really mine, To use whichever way I choose, producing thoughts that were not those of other people But my own and mine alone Was that the day! Where did my childhood go? It went to some forgotten  place, That is hidden in an infant's face, That's all I know. -Marcus Natten Theme: The central theme of the poem ' Childhood ' is that the poet is identifying his lost childhood. He wonders when he lost his childhood. He is also missing the innocence of his childhood. The Poet is trying to find when and where he lost his childhood, which...

A Complaint:-   There is a change—and I am poor; Your love hath been, nor long ago, A fountain at my fond heart's door, Whose only business was to flow; And flow it did; not taking heed Of its own bounty, or my need. What happy moments did I count! Blest was I then all bliss above! Now, for that consecrated fount Of murmuring, sparkling, living love, What have I? shall I dare to tell? A comfortless and hidden well. A well of love—it may be deep— I trust it is,—and never dry: What matter? if the waters sleep In silence and obscurity. —Such change, and at the very door Of my fond heart, hath made me poor. -William Wordsworth Summary And Theme: Poem 'A Complaint' is an example of romantic poetry . For an opening line of "A Complaint", it is a dark, sombre message of the grief that is yet to come – it sets the tone for the rest of 'A Complaint', and opens up the idea of this loss as being something personally shaking. 'A Complaint' speaks about a grav...

Song Of Proserpine:- Sacred Goddess, Mother Earth, Thou from whose immortal bosom Gods and men and beasts have birth, Leaf and blade, and bud and blossom, Breathe thine influence most divine On thine own child, Proserpine. If with mists of evening dew Thou dost nourish these young flowers Till they grow in scent and hue Fairest children of the Hours, Breathe thine influence most divine On thine own child, Proserpine -Percy Bysshe Shelley Summary And Theme In the Poem, Shelley is praying to the Greek Goddess Of Underworld, Proserpine . Shelley prays to Goddess and Mother Earth, who Gives Birth to every entity and wants to pray the Goddess Proserpine that your Breathe Gives Them a Life and they all are your Child. In the next lines, Poet Wants To Say That Your mist of Evening Nourish the Flowers until they grow up and scents the world. In Last Lines, the poet again wants to say that, Goddess give life and breathe to their Childs. ...