Why couldnot the poet's beloved feel the passing of time? (A slumber didmy spirit seal)
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Answer:
A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal
OBJECTIVES
To make students understand the reality of life and death.
To realize students harsh realities of life.
Develop literary taste among students and let them enjoy philosophical sort of poems.
Enrich new words or vocabulary of students.
To enable students connect poem with real life.
NEW WORDS
Slumber:
Sleep.
Sometimes slumber is a good medicine against worries of life.
Diurnal:
Daily.
Life and death is diurnal course of nature.
KEY POINTS
This poem is about the death of a loved one.
Poet’s feeling about his beloved when he thinks about her death.
Poet is satisfied about his beloved’s condition after her death.
His beloved has no human fear as she is unaffected of pain, sorrow or worries of life.
She is senseless and has become a part of nature. Time has no effect upon her.
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SUMMARY
This poem is about the death of a loved one and poet’s feeling about his beloved when he thinks about her death. Poem also describes his imagination about his beloved after death. This poem is a kind of elegy. In this poem, the poet seems to be immortalizing her death by saying that she had no human fears. Now earthly years were no longer a matter of concern for her because they cannot make her older now.
In the second stanza he is describing her dead body. She is not able to perform any of the physical movement or activity now. In the last two lines the poet describes that she is now under the surface of the earth revolving along with it on its path. He tells us that like other stones, rocks and trees, she also revolves with the earth now.
Answer:
A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal
OBJECTIVES
To make students understand the reality of life and death.
To realize students harsh realities of life.
Develop literary taste among students and let them enjoy philosophical sort of poems.
Enrich new words or vocabulary of students.
To enable students connect poem with real life.
NEW WORDS
Slumber:
Sleep.
Sometimes slumber is a good medicine against worries of life.
Diurnal:
Daily.
Life and death is diurnal course of nature.
KEY POINTS
This poem is about the death of a loved one.
Poet’s feeling about his beloved when he thinks about her death.
Poet is satisfied about his beloved’s condition after her death.
His beloved has no human fear as she is unaffected of pain, sorrow or worries of life.
She is senseless and has become a part of nature. Time has no effect upon her.
video
SUMMARY
This poem is about the death of a loved one and poet’s feeling about his beloved when he thinks about her death. Poem also describes his imagination about his beloved after death. This poem is a kind of elegy. In this poem, the poet seems to be immortalizing her death by saying that she had no human fears. Now earthly years were no longer a matter of concern for her because they cannot make her older now.
In the second stanza he is describing her dead body. She is not able to perform any of the physical movement or activity now. In the last two lines the poet describes that she is now under the surface of the earth revolving along with it on its path. He tells us that like other stones, rocks and trees, she also revolves with the earth now.