Sunil Kumar - nostalgic feeling.I READ THIS IN CLASS IX. OUR PRINCIPAL MR K. KUMAR EXPLAINED THIS SIMPLE POEM. RIGHT FROM THE THE WORD PULLEY.ITS USE . WHY IT IS THE TITLE OF THIS POEM. HATS OFF TO THAT TEACHER. AND ALSO THE WRITER OF THIS POEM
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- From guest Muhammad Zubair Khattak (contact)
The poem is the exquisite expression of conferment of beauties, bounties, blessings, honour, and pleasure upon his creatures.He, The Almighty according to the poet, has at last put a stop to the luxuries, because He thought that my loving man will be fallen in love with the enchantments of The master and will forget about The master. That is why God, because of His great love for his creature suffered His man with insomnia and restlessness, so that he may turn back to his God. Thanks a lot, Muhammad Zubair khattak, karak.
- From guest Ramchandra (contact)
This is my best poem..i had learned this poem at the time of my H.S.C
- From guest Sarah Khayal (contact)
George Herbert as a major religious poet who spent the rest of his life in working as a priest in the church, he reflects his religious doctrines via his poetry as we've seen last time when we read his celebrated poem "The Collar". When I read the first line of Herbert's The Pulley, I believed that we are again in front of another religious poem for him which may be deal with god's creation of man and man's relation with god , but at the same i wondered how could the title of the poem, which is "The Pulley" be related to the poem. When I read this title, i was in need to look for its meaning in the dictionary becuase it's very clear, as the pulley simply means "the wheel", which is a tool for holding or raising up heavy things. I feel that the title is a kind of conceit , but i really don't know what it indicates. While reading the peom, i noticed that Herbert is using words, such as "When, so , For, Yet, If , May. etc" it could be an indication for his arguments . Another thing which aslo attracted me is the use of the word "Rest" as he uses it three times, one time in the second stanza, another time in the third stanza and also in the last stanza, but my question is "does the word REST in every stanza hold the same meaning, or its meaning defers from one stanza to another. Something I want to add, it could be far away from the poem but i don't know why it came into my mind when I read the word "restlessness" in thelast stanza, i see that the idea of restlessness is associated with the lack of sleep, which is an idea that was involved in the minds of many Renaissance witers. Many of Shakespear's play include refernces to sleep or the lack of it as a punishment for sins committed. Like what happened in Macbeth and Othelo who were tormented by the lack of sleep. In conclusion, Unlike Donne, Herbert depends less heavily on conceits and extrem metaphors and his ideas seem also distinguished. Although the poet is using some kind of simple language and easy words, the subject matter of the poem is not very clear to me, it may because there is a religioud background for it. Thank you, Sarah Khayal
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