THIS IS GOING TO HURT JUST A LITTLE BIT

  THIS IS GOING TO HURT JUST A
                    LITTLE BIT

This is Going to Hurt Just a Little Bit’ by Ogden Nash is a humorous poem filled with exaggerations, puns and metaphors. It is a hilarious description of the whole experience of sitting in a dental chair which causes the poet great agony.The poet considers sitting in the dentist’s chair the worst torture a man can undergo. Some tortures are physical and some are mental. But the only torture that combines both is dental. Whoever you are, you lose all your calm, cheerfulness and dignity when you sit in the dentist’s chair with your mouth wide open and your jaw digging into your chest.

To bring out the horror of dental treatment, the poet makes a few comparisons that are outrageously hilarious and exaggerated. He compares his mouth being worked on to a road being repaired. All his nerves are being irked on by the noise and he feels that the dentist is using stone crushers, concrete mixers, drills, and steam rollers. He also compares a dentist to a bear, because the dentist mauls and suffocates him like a bear suffocating its prey. Moreover, he feels that the dentist is approaching him with a crowbar.

According to the poet the use of mirrors for dental treatment is the most terrifying thing about it. He fears that the lateral inversion in the mirror may cause the doctor to confuse the right side for the left.

After the treatment the patient sighs in relief to hear that it was all. But then, the dentist coats the mouth with something that resembles the polish used on a horse’s hoof. The last nail on the coffin is when the dentist tells him to come back in three months.

In the end, the poet feels that having to visit the dentist again and again is the most vicious circle that fate sends him. He feels that he can never get out of it. The paradox is that he wants his teeth in good condition only to keep the dentist away. He hopes it is only for once, but it becomes a cyclical process.

The comic effect of the poem is achieved through exaggerations. Sitting in the dentist’s chair is viewed as something that may change the course of one’s life. The tension makes you scratch your palm with your fingernails so hard that even your lifeline may get altered. Puns and wordplay abound in the poem. It is evident in word pairs such as mental-dental, polished-demolished, hope-hopen, etc.

Doctors always say, “This is going to hurt just a little bit” to soothe their patients before some painful treatment. Nevertheless, the patient knows that it is going to be painful. The title of the poem takes a humorous turn when the readers realize that Nash may be actually telling the same to the dentist. He warns the dentist that the poem may hurt him a little bit, but when the ‘treatment’ is finished, the dentist realizes that he has been delivered a fatal blow.

RICE

                           RICE

The poem "Rice" written by chemmanam chacko and traslated by Prof.Ayyappa

Paniker is a superb satire.The poem filled with sarcasm.Society has changed and

Chemmanam chacko(1926)

changed. The agricultural land, kerala changed from food crop  cultivation. The youth goes to gulf countries. There will be atleast one person who working at abroad. They send money to their relatives.
Some farmres stopped farming and others started cultivating cash crops.In this poem the son of a rice farmer goes to north lndia for research on toys with husk.When he returns there is no husk.Everywhere filled with rubber.People control machine for making rubber sheets.Poet gives the picture of chief minister flying to the centre to request for more food grains.The son with an intense desire  to eat 'athikara'rice.
A number of malayalam words  are used in the poem.It consist irregular stanza."Rise" is a prose poem in simplest style.The varanganal canal, athikara rice, modan,vellaran(rice varieties)noise of shouting as oxen draw the plouph in the field,his father's handloom dhoti stained with yellow mud are became memories.Palm thatched houses are gone.Field is planted with arecanut palms and along the canal there were dealwood trees.
The glitter of money tempting the farmers.The government give rice to those who have no paddy fields.The market ruling us.Kerala becoming a consumer state.People want to catch the fish without wetting the fingers.
In this poem the quote by Rabindranath Tagore became relevent.He said that "The highest education is that which merely gives us information,but makes our life in harmony with all existence".

STAMMER

•                  STAMMER

• Stanza 1

The poet begins the poem by simple words that a stammer is no handicap. It is a mode of speech. There is no hidden meaning in these lines. The poet says that stammering is not a defect or imperfection but a way by which we express our ideas to others.

• Stanza 2

In the next stanza, the poet says that a stammer is the silence that falls between the word and its meaningi.e. the silence which comes in when we think about the meaning of the word before speaking it is also a stammer.

  

Similarly, lameness is also the silence that falls between the word and the deed meaning that refraining from doing something which we intend to do is also stammer.

• Stanza 3

In stanza 3 the poet raises a rhetorical question. He wonders whether the stammer precedes language or succeed it i.e. did stammer originated before the language come into existence or after that.

Next, he asks whether stammer is only a dialect or a language itself and such questions make even linguists stammer. Hence, it is quite confusing for the linguists as well to know about the origin and the nature of stammer.

• Stanza 4

In this stanza, the poet tells about the importance of stammering. According to him each time we stammer we are offering a sacrifice to the God of Meanings.

God of Meanings here refer to the Language which is a collection of words. The poet says that stammering is quite important because it is by stammering that we add new words and meanings to the language and this is a kind of sacrifice given by us.

Hence, language is made up of imperfection like humans. The imperfection in speaking the words, interpreting and using it is what enriches the language.

• Stanza 5

The poet says that when a whole people stammer stammer becomes their mother tongue: as it is with us now. The phrase simply means that the whole humanity on the earth stammers i.e. using the words and interpreting their meanings in their own ways.

And hence stammering is not an imperfection but the language or the mother tongue. He gives the examples of how people use the words today to justify his argument.

• Stanza 6

In the final stanza, the poet questions the perfection of God. According to him, God too must have stammered when He created Man andthat is why all the words of man carry different meanings i.e. every word means different to different people and each person interprets and uses the words in their own ways.

Even his utterance of the prayers is full of stammering like the poetry. Here the poet conveys three important messages. First God stammers and is hence imperfect. This is why humans are imperfect.

Second humans stammer in prayers and thus prayers are also full of imperfections and finally, poetry is also full of imperfection. This is why it means different to different people.

If poetry were perfect, it would not have the charm and beauty which it currently has. Hence the whole universe is imperfect and imperfection is the very basis of existence and thus we should not consider stammer as an imperfection but an integral part of our life without which we cannot exist.

Stammer Poem Figure of Speech

1. Simile: “just as lameness is the silence”, “whole people stammer stammer becomes their mother tongue: as it is with us now”, “he utters from his prayers to his commands stammers, like poetry.
2. Repetition: The word Stammer is repeated several times in the poem.
3. Metaphor: The word Stammer is a metaphor which refers to the imperfection we have on the earth and it is this imperfection which makes us exist.

ANY WOMEN

            ANY WOMEN

Summary of Any Woman: The poem opens by introducing the central metaphor of the house. The mother says that she is the pillars of the house. She is the keystone of the arch without which the roof and wall would fall and the house would be ruined.

A mother is not only the foundation of the household; she is the ‘vita lux et amor’ – the life, light, and love that fill a house. Like the sun which warms the earth, she is the fire upon the hearth. The children warm their hands at her. Without her the house would be cold and lifeless and the children would not thrive.

The mother is also like a twist or a knot in the ring that holds the different strands together. She holds the children together in the sacred ring of love. Without the knot of love many a child could go a-wandering and get lost.

Finally, the poet describes the countless chores a mother performs every day in the house which may make her children wonder whether she has a thousand hands. She decorates the house, gets the table ready for dinner, spins the curtains, and makes their bed. Here she is also compared to a mother bird who builds the nest, feeds the nestlings and makes their bed with her own soft feathers. She walls out the wind and snow and protects them from all danger. The poem ends with the mother’s prayer to Jesus to keep her alive till the children grow.

MENDING WALL

               MENDING WALL

            

Written in 1914, Mending Wall is a poem in blank verse that remains relevant for these uncertain times. It involves two rural neighbors who one spring day meet to walk along the wall that separates their properties and repair it where needed.

The speaker in the poem is a progressive individual who starts to question the need for such a wall in the first place. The neighbor beyond the hill is a traditionalist and has, it seems, little time for such nonsense.

'Good fences make good neighbors,' is all he will say.

We all have neighbors, we all know that walls eventually need repairing. Walls separate and keep people apart, walls deny right of passage and yet provide security. Despite the need for such a barrier, the opening line - Something there is that doesn't love a wall, - implies that the idea of a wall isn't that straightforward.

Robert Frost, in his own inimitable way, invites the reader into controversy by introducing mischief into the poem. The speaker wants to put a notion into the head of his neighbor, to ask him to explain why is it good walls make good neighbors, but in the end says nothing.

A wall may seem useful in the countryside as it could help keep livestock safe and secure and mark a definite boundary. But a wall that separates village from village, city from city, country from country, people from people, family from family - that's a completely different scenario.

Robert Frost's poem can help pinpoint such issues and bring them out into the open.

The title of the poem Mending Wall is ambiguous as the word ‘mending’ can be used as a verb and an adjective. When used as a verb, it signifies an act involving the speaker and the neighbour where they mend the wall. But when used as an adjective, “mending” implies a distinguished relationship that the speaker and his neighbour share which they are trying to mend.

Mending Wall

Something there is that doesn't love a wall,
That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it,
And spills the upper boulders in the sun;
And makes gaps even two can pass abreast.
The work of hunters is another thing:
I have come after them and made repair
Where they have left not one stone on a stone,
But they would have the rabbit out of hiding,
To please the yelping dogs. The gaps I mean,
No one has seen them made or heard them made,
But at spring mending-time we find them there.
I let my neighbour know beyond the hill;
And on a day we meet to walk the line
And set the wall between us once again.
We keep the wall between us as we go.
To each the boulders that have fallen to each.
And some are loaves and some so nearly balls
We have to use a spell to make them balance:
"Stay where you are until our backs are turned!"
We wear our fingers rough with handling them.
Oh, just another kind of out-door game,
One on a side. It comes to little more:
There where it is we do not need the wall:
He is all pine and I am apple orchard.
My apple trees will never get across
And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him.
He only says, "Good fences make good neighbours."
Spring is the mischief in me, and I wonder
If I could put a notion in his head:
"Why do they make good neighbours? Isn't it
Where there are cows? But here there are no cows.
Before I built a wall I'd ask to know
What I was walling in or walling out,
And to whom I was like to give offence.
Something there is that doesn't love a wall,
That wants it down." I could say "Elves" to him,
But it's not elves exactly, and I'd rather
He said it for himself. I see him there
Bringing a stone grasped firmly by the top
In each hand, like an old-stone savage armed.
He moves in darkness as it seems to me,
Not of woods only and the shade of trees.
He will not go behind his father's saying,
And he likes having thought of it so well
He says again, "Good fences make good neighbours."

Appreciation for any poem

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f irst  para:  "All  great  works  of literature  either  disolve  genera  or invent  one"  articulate  by  WALTER BENJAMIN  is  wrtilly  applies  to (poet 's name)poem  (poem ).The  poem  is  a  meaningful endeavour  to  expound  an ordinary  thought  in  an uncommon  auora

second  para  &third  para  :brief summary  of  the  given  poem

 4th  para  :  your  opinion  about  the given  poem

 5th  para:  poetic  devices  in  the given  poem

6th  para:(if  given  poem  have  any relation  with  the  studied  poem  in text  book  if  so  name  of  the poem  in  text  book))both  these poems  are  triumphant  attempt  at ventilating  nearly  similar sensation  through  apt  diction and  aqurate  image.A  true  union of  Wright  philosophy  proper poetic  experience  make  possible divergent  sensation.It  may  even invite  a  reader  to  slightly  incline towards  .  Coleridge's  verdic  that "poetry  seeking  to  make  not meaning  but  beauty"-


-((if  given  poem  doesn't  have  any relation  with  studied  poem  in  text book  avoid  the    colored (green)part))