Reflective Blog on the learning of E.A. Poe's Stories by Dr. Jay Mehta

Reflective Blog on the learning of E.A. Poe's Stories by Dr. Jay Mehta

"Literature is like axe for frozen ice with in you ".

In our department of English we had guest lecture by Dr. Jay Mehta during 19th to 22th September. He is lecturer at R. C. Technical collage at Ahemdabad. He is not guest but part of Department Family. He also studied under the guidance of Dr.Dilip Barad sir. So because of this he is very attached with department. These three days were very much memorable for us. He is very specialised into his subject. He knows very well how to engaged students with the subject. So as part of that he gave us pre thinking task to give answer of some questions which is realeted our life experience  also it reflects our psychological state of our mind.

Here is the link of given task :  To open the task link Click Here. 

His teaching style is unique from others because he gave us pre thinking activity so from it our mind becomes ready for study and understand the basic concept.  Also he connect poe's stories with movies like Bruce almighta Liar Liar , Gazi Attack , Wednesday, Inseption , Omkara , Makbul, Header , Aks ,  Pyasa , Water etc. So this way he connect the features of poe 's stories with movies.

  Also he introduced psychological decease like Hallucination , Catalepsy , Neurosis , Psychosis etc. He  very well connected these psychological terms with Poe's stories. Also sir has great collection of guzzles  and poems. He often recited poems and Guzzle. In his class no one feel board but attend his lectures interestingly.  

In three days we studied Poe 's short stories. Poe 's Stories are full of elements of horror and terror. We studied six stories of him. 

1) The Tell Tale Heart

2) The Black Cat

3) The Fall of the House of Usher

4) The Cask of Amontillado

5) The Purloined Letter

6) The Gold Bug

So his lecture were combination of elements of Horror and Terror ,Gujrati / Hindi Guzzle and poems ,  Movies and Psychological terms. So it were very fruitful sessions for us. He also used the original quotes when he starts his lectures. Here I wants to put one of  quote which he wrote on the board when he start his lecture.  

" No mortal can keep a secret in his , lips are silent, he characters with his fingertips, Betrayal oozes out of him from every pore " 

                                               - Dr. Sigmund Freud 

So this way our sessions start with different quotes related to the subject. 

On the fourth day we have special sessions of Gujrati and Hindi poems and Guzzles by Dr Jay Mehta sir. In this session he recited many Guzzle and poems. He told everyone who are interested into writing Poems and Guzzle to keep writing and also he told to listen the tone of recitation of  Guzzle and Poems. Because tone is very important in recitation of any poems and guzzles. He has also told to read Guzzle of Gulzar, Galib, Rahish Maniyara, Mukesh Joshi, Dr. Rahat Indori ,  Khushvantkumar, Hemant Faraz , Annirudh chavda and many more.

So these  sessions were very fruitful and memorable for us. I would like to thank you our  Head of department  Dr Dilip Barad sir for inviting Dr. Jay Mehta sir.