My days among the days are past is a beautiful work by Robert Southey, the poet of an era called romantic peoriod, described as the golden period period in the history of poem. He is one of those handful of poets honoured as, poet letreturs of great Britain. In this text he describes his relationship with books.
The speaker depicts how close he is to the books and how interrelated these books are to him because whereever his eyes runs they catch a glimpse of people who are no more in existence. To him they are never failing friends as the always show a good path for him and never mislead him which is the main reason that the speaker is so fond of the books that the conveerse with them everyday.
The speaker of auther more adds that he feels delighted in trouble because soon the troubles will trun to relief with the company of those dead minds. This gives him a feeling of gratitude towards them because he is totally in debted by them. He lives the past with them interacting with them loving their virtues and disapprasing their faults, he takes part in their happy and sad situations and takes lessons from their teaching with a humble mind.
He is so related to them that he hopes to be with watching his name written with their names and travel in the future with their company. He wants to leave his name. So that it could be written with the names of those dead people and the through all eternity.
Therefore,with all the reference the poet provides a clear vision that the persons who are dead are living their life through their books providing inspiration to whole humanity. Thus his previous idea considering them dead is of no meaning because they are not dead to him now. So, he entitles text as 'My days among the dead are past'.
The speaker depicts how close he is to the books and how interrelated these books are to him because whereever his eyes runs they catch a glimpse of people who are no more in existence. To him they are never failing friends as the always show a good path for him and never mislead him which is the main reason that the speaker is so fond of the books that the conveerse with them everyday.
The speaker of auther more adds that he feels delighted in trouble because soon the troubles will trun to relief with the company of those dead minds. This gives him a feeling of gratitude towards them because he is totally in debted by them. He lives the past with them interacting with them loving their virtues and disapprasing their faults, he takes part in their happy and sad situations and takes lessons from their teaching with a humble mind.
He is so related to them that he hopes to be with watching his name written with their names and travel in the future with their company. He wants to leave his name. So that it could be written with the names of those dead people and the through all eternity.
Therefore,with all the reference the poet provides a clear vision that the persons who are dead are living their life through their books providing inspiration to whole humanity. Thus his previous idea considering them dead is of no meaning because they are not dead to him now. So, he entitles text as 'My days among the dead are past'.
Mamta, you might have captured the gist of this epic by Robert Southey, but the write-up is replete with errors in grammar and spelling. It could very definitely stand some good editing and perhaps a re-write. Incidentally, I learnt this poem in my seventh or eighth grade English class at a Jesuit school in India. As I remember, it was titled very apropos as "Scholars. " The line "Their virtues love, their faults condemn" also denotes that the author does not just have all praise for his predecessors, but is a critic of their lives and works as well. Incidentally, whole" humanity" would sound a lot better if changed to "all of humanity." I hope you do not find my comments presumptuous and take them in the spirit in which they are offered
ReplyDeleteInstead of appreciating her effort at appreciating poetry you are trying to dissect her grammar syntax and idiom. You are not only presumptuous but an arrant fault digger.
ReplyDeleteInstead of appreciating her effort at appreciating poetry you are trying to dissect her grammar syntax and idiom. You are not only presumptuous but an arrant fault digger.
ReplyDeleteis there any characteristics of romanticism in this poem?
ReplyDeleteis there any characteristics of romanticism in this poem?
ReplyDeleteI too studied the poem in my English text book...
ReplyDeleteremember vividly the poetic tone and passion of my teacherwhile teaching it...'the Dead' -the metaphor books, or even Persons- does not seem edifying -if they are to be glorified , why call them Dead-an un=poetic word !
Bal Anand