Analysis of the poem : Break, Break , Break by Alfred Lord Tennyson

● Break, Break, Break : Alfred Lord Tennyson

● Poem :

Break, break, break,

On thy cold grey stones, O Sea!

And I would that my tongue could utter

The thoughts that arise in me.

O well for the fisherman's boy,

That he shouts with his sister at play!

O well for the sailor lad,

That he sings in his boat on the bay!

And the stately ships go on

To their haven under the hill;

But O for the touch of a vanish'd hand,

And the sound of a voice that is still!

Break, break, break,

At the foot of thy crags, O Sea!

But the tender grace of a day that is dead,

Will never come back to me.

● Analysis of the poem : 

 This poem is written by Alfred Lord Tennison. It is written in 1835 and publish in 1842 .The poem describes the feeling of loss and realisation that there is something beyond the cycle of Life and Death. He is standing on sandy sea shore and writing this poem. This poem carries the emotional impact of person reflecting on loss of someone he cared for. So this poem is wrote after the death of his friend Arthur Hallam .

         The poem has four stanzas of four lines. In the first stanza sea is battering the stones. The poet appears frustrated that sea can keep and making noice while he is unable to utter his thoughts. Sea 's loud roar and it's energy is something that he lacks. So the repetition of break aptly  conveys ceaseless motion of waves each wave reminding him what he lacks.

       In the second stanza poet expresses distance between himself and the happy people playing and singing where they are. The possesses joy fulfillment, whether together or alone but he doesn't. He gives example of brother and sister have each other ,  the sailor has his boat and the poet is alone. They have a reason to be happy .

    In the next stanza he talks about stately ships moving to their haven under the hill. So ship moving towards its destination Either to port or over the horizon But the poet however has no Plan about his life and he misses his Friend. So they seems content with destination But the mounded grave is no pleasant heaven in contrast. That end means end of activity. There is no more voice to hear. Again poet is caught up in his internal thoughts. The critic H.Sopher also interpreats the contrast in his stanza like : The Satelines of the ship contrast with poet 's emotional imbalance , the ship moves forward to an attainable goal while the poet looks back to vanished hand and voice that is still .

      In the last stanza poet talks about waves that they come again and again and hitting a wall of rock each time and return But for him there is no return of the dead just the recurring pain of loss. So the poet looks at the sea again and addresses to it once more by this time he realise that even if he manages express his grief the grace of his friend will never come back to him to wish to express is itself no solution to the problem .

            Poet 's realisation of fruitlessness of action and sea 's action is seemingly fruitless too because of it is all afford it can't go beyond the rocks than the poet restore the past So both the sea and speaker continue with their useless but repeated actions so the scene evokes a sense of inevitability and hopelessness.

          So this poem is progress towards Immorality of friendship. The poem starts with remembrance and sorrow of his friend who is dead so poet has pain of lossing his friendship but in the later part or in the last stanza poet realise the immortality of their friendship. So he realise that friendship is beyond the cycle of Life and Death. 

Thinking activity on Derrida and Deconstruction

Here is my task or thinking activity on Derrida and Deconstruction as a part of my academic study. To open the task link click Here.

1) What do you understand by 'Deconstruction'? (Remember: if you think you understand Deconstruction, you don't.)

Ans : 

           The term itself very difficult to understand because there is not any definition given by Derrida . As we use to understand the thing from definition and it becomes easy way for us to understand and this thing make this term difficult to understand.

     " Deconstruction is not destructive activity but inquiry into the foundation and causes of intellectual system. " 

       
    Derrida strongly believe that to define something is to make to boundaries around it. Deconstruction can be taken as a  process of inquiring the origin amd consrtuction of the text. Deconstruction do not destroy of any text but its questions it . So one can get to the idea of existence of the text .

   Deconstruction is not word and not belive in dictionary meaning as dictionary gives only another word or we can say it decentralised only another word for one word or we we can say it decentralised from center.

2) Read an ad or TV serial or Film or literary text as post-structuralist critic. Be brief, precise and to the point.

1) Drashyam movie : 

    In this film shows the binary oppositions of Power - Knowledge,  Middle class - High class , Family - Law, Morality - Immorality,   Man - Woman , Society - Family .

This film itself deconstruction the mentality that believes by police officer ( Tabu) that  illiterate person is never  smart or intelligent to  escape from his crime. But the later part of the movie  deconstructed this idea that  Vijay ( protagonist ) is too much intelligent beyond her thinking. He get knowledge from watching films. He saves his family from this crime.

           In this movie shows the conflict between power and knowledge or conflict between woman and man.As usually Man become superior by saving his family from crime.

        When the lady officer ( Tabu)  comes to know that her son making video of girl after knowing the reality about her son she never think  that her son has doing something wrong.she also never think twice about that girl who going through this difficult time  and as a women she should not be so cruel towards the girl. In this film also shows the mentality of society that women 's pride is so much important for family. When something goes wrong with girl society ultimately blame the girl and her family and never accept them. Because after knowing the reality people  blame the girl more than boy. In this film also shows this thing.This thing become  responsible for  girl to killing that boy.

     

2) Advertisement of Favikvik : Todo nahi Jodo:

 This advertise is about favikwik . In this advertise we can see the binary oppositions of India - Pakistan, Patrioticism - Humanity, Enemy - Humanity , To Breaking - To binding. This advertise telling the message of unity believe in binding not Breaking but it not focus on the boder between two nation this thing itself break this main theme of this advertisement that the nation already devided into two parts and that two solder represting that own nation.