Monday, September 30, 2019

"But Patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies: "God doth not need Either man's work or his own gifts: who best Bear his mild yoke, they serve him best. His state Is kingly; thousands at his bidding speed And post o'er land and ocean without rest:"--Explain the lines

3. "But Patience, to prevent
That murmur, soon replies: "God doth not need
Either man's work or his own gifts: who best
Bear his mild yoke, they serve him best. His state
Is kingly; thousands at his bidding speed
And post o'er land and ocean without rest:"--Explain the lines

Describe the role of Patience.

OR

How does patience rescue the poet from his conflict of mind?

Answer: These lines occur in John Milton's Sonnet: 19. Here Patients has been personified. Patients has come to solve the foolish doubts of poet if God will demand from the poet the due work or duties that he has not performed when he had eyesight. Actually the poet does not know that God is infinite. Patience consoles the poet saying that our duties, offerings to god are insignificant. Also God does not want his gifts back from us. Like us, God has countless Angels, servants who also run everywhere without rest only to obey the order of God. According to the Patience, the man who bears God's order, is the best servant of God. Here the world 'yoke' is compared to the duties given by the God to us.

2. "Doth God exact day-labour, light denied?"---Explain.

Answer: This line occurs in the sonnet "On His Blindness" by John Milton. Before half of his age, the poet has become blind. Before his blindness, he had not utilised his God-gifted talent properly. Now after losing the light of eyes, the poet sadly laments that his eyesight has gone waste without doing anything worthy. He repents that he has done injustice to his talents gifted by the God and expresses his doubts whether God will demand or charge from him the due work or duties. The poet also fears that like the third servant whom his Lord put to death due to not utilising his money (Matthew 25), God may also charge a huge penalty from the poet that is more fearful, troublesome, painful to him than his blindness.

Sunday, September 29, 2019

QUESTION OF ON HIS BLINDNESS: BIBLICAL CONTEXT IN ON HIS BLINDNESS BY MILTON

1. "When I consider how my light is spent
Ere half my days in this dark world and wide,
And that one talent which is death to hide
Lodg'd with me useless, though my soul more bent
To serve therewith my Maker, and present
My true account, lest he returning chide"- Explain

OR

What are the Biblical allusions mentioned in the sonnet "On His Blindness" by John Milton?

Answer:. Poet John Milton became completely blind in 1655 and after three years, he composed this autobiographical Sonnet. Getting blind he became very sad and unhappy. According to the poet, though he had crossed half of his life, he had neither used his 'light' i.e vision's availity to do do something exceptional with his God gifted talent nor spent his those days in the service of God. Now becoming blind, the world seemed to him totally dark and wide. Through the phase "one talent which is death to hide" the poet gave an allusion of Bible (Matthew 25). There in "The Parable of Talents", a Lord gave his three servants equal talents i.e. money before going out for a trip. Two of them used money in business and gained profit for their Lord. But the third servant did not use the money. When the Lord returned he became happy with the first two of them and got furious with the third servant and put him into the mouth of death. Here the poet compares 'talents' to the 'money' of the lord mentioned in the Bible. Like third servant he had not used his money i.e. talent given to him by Lord i.e. God and it was similar to death for the poet for not using that. So the poet thought that that unused talent was totally useless to him because he was blind. The poet became worried to think of the third servant. He thought that God would chide him for not using his talents when he would present himself in front of God after His returning. And so to get rid of this problem, he wished to serve God from his soul with his stored talent within himself. He did not want to get cast into the darkness that might be more fearful and painful than the suffering of his blindness.

Text and Bengali meaning of ON HIS BLINDNESS BY JOHN MILTON

ON HIS BLINDNESS

BY

JOHN MILTON

When I consider how my light is spent

যখন আমি ভাবি কিভাবে আমি আমার দৃষ্টি শক্তি ব্যয় করলাম
Ere half my days in this dark world and wide

আমার অর্ধেক জিবনের আগেই এই বিশাল অন্ধকারময় পৃথিবীতে

And that one talent which is death to hide

এবং সেই প্রতিভা টি যেটি লুকিয়ে রাখা হল মৃত্যুর সমান
Lodged with me useless, though my soul more bent

সেই প্রতিভাটি মুল্যহীন ভাবে আমার মধ্যে রয়েছে, যদিও আমার হৃদয় চায়
To serve therewith my Maker, and present

আমার সৃষ্টি কর্তা/ ইশ্বর কে সেই প্রতিভা দিয়ে সেবা করতে এবং হাজির করতে
My true account, lest he returning chide;

আমার প্রকৃত স্বত্তা কে পাছে তিনি ফিরে এসে আমায় বকেন;
"Doth God exact day labor, light denied?"

"ঈশ্বর কি আমার অন্ধত্বের সময়ে আমার কাজের হিসাব নেবেন/(বাকি কাজের দাবী করবেন)?"
I fondly ask. But Patience, to prevent

আমি বোকার মত জিজ্ঞাসা করলাম। কিন্তু ধৈর্য প্রতিরোধ করল
That murmur, soon replies,. "God doth not need

আমার চাপা ভাবনা কে, ধৈর্য আমায় উত্তর দিল, "ইশ্বরের প্রয়োজন নেই
Either man's work or his own gifts. Who best

মানুষের কাজের অথবা তাঁর প্রদত্ত প্রতিভা/ উপহার। যে মানুষ সবচেয়ে ভালো ভাবে
Bear his mild yoke, they serve him best. His state

বহন করবে ইশ্বরের হালকা জোয়াল, তারাই হল ইশ্বরের সবচেয়ে বড় সেবক। ঈশ্বরের অবস্থান
Is kingly; thousands at his bidding speed,.

রাজার মত; তাঁর হাজার হাজার দুত/ এঙ্গেল তাঁর আদেশে দ্রুত
And post o'er land and ocean without rest;

ছোটে স্থলভাগে এবং জলভাগে বিশ্রামহীন ভাবে;

They also serve who only stand and wait.

কিন্তু যারা শুধুমাত্র দাঁড়িয়ে থাকে এবং ভগবানের আদেশের অপেক্ষা করে তারাও ভগবানের সেবক।

ALL QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ON "ON HIS BLINDNESS" BY JOHN MILTON

1. "When I consider how my light is spent
Ere half my days in this dark world and wide,
And that one talent which is death to hide
Lodg'd with me useless, though my soul more bent
To serve therewith my Maker, and present
My true account, lest he returning chide"-----Explain.

OR,

What are the Biblical allusions mentioned in the poem On His Blindness" by John Milton?
_______________________________

2. "Doth God exact day-labour, light denied?"---Explain.
_______________________________

3. " But Patience, to prevent
That murmur, soon replies,. "God doth not need
Either man's work or his own gifts. Who best Bear his mild yoke, they serve him best. His state Is kingly; thousands at his bidding speed,. And post o'er land and ocean without rest;"

----- Explain the lines.

OR,

Describe the role of Patience.

OR,
How does patience rescue the poet from his conflict of mind?
_______________________________

4. "They also serve who only stand and wait"--Explain
_______________________________

5. Justify the poem as a sonnet.
_______________________________

Tuesday, September 17, 2019

SONNET: 19:- ON HIS BLINDNESS ---BY JOHN MILTON

CONTENT: ENGH-G-LCC-2 (3RD SEM)

ENGH-G-LCC-2 (3RD SEM)