To New York By Leopold Seder senghor

To New York   

 By Leopold Seder senghor

About the poet

           

   Léopold Sédar Senghor (9 October 1906 – 20 December 2001) was a Senegalese poet, politician, and cultural theorist who for two decades served as the first president of Senegal (1960–80). Ideologically an African socialist, he was associated with the Négritude movement. He was the founder of the Senegalese Democratic Bloc party.

               Senghor was the first African elected as a member of the Académie française. He is regarded by many as one of the most important African intellectuals of the 20th century.

Poem

New York! At first I was bewildered by your beauty,
Those huge, long-legged, golden girls.
So shy, at first, before your blue metallic eyes and icy smile,
So shy. And full of despair at the end of skyscraper streets
Raising my owl eyes at the eclipse of the sun.
Your light is sulphurous against the pale towers
Whose heads strike lightning into the sky,
Skyscrapers defying storms with their steel shoulders
And weathered skin of stone.
But two weeks on the naked sidewalks of Manhattan—
At the end of the third week the fever
Overtakes you with a jaguar’s leap
Two weeks without well water or pasture all birds of the air
Fall suddenly dead under the high, sooty terraces.
No laugh from a growing child, his hand in my cool hand.
No mother’s breast, but nylon legs. Legs and breasts
Without smell or sweat. No tender word, and no lips,
Only artificial hearts paid for in cold cash
And not one book offering wisdom.
The painter’s palette yields only coral crystals.
Sleepless nights, O nights of Manhattan!
Stirring with delusions while car horns blare the empty hours
And murky streams carry away hygenic loving
Like rivers overflowing with the corpses of babies.

                                         II
Now is the time of signs and reckoning, New York!
Now is the time of manna and hyssop.
You have only to listen to God’s trombones, to your heart
Beating to the rhythm of blood, your blood.
I saw Harlem teeming with sounds and ritual colors
And outrageous smells—
At teatime in the home of the drugstore-deliveryman
I saw the festival of Night begin at the retreat of day.
And I proclaim Night more truthful than the day.
It is the pure hour when God brings forth
Life immemorial in the streets,
All the amphibious elements shinning like suns.
Harlem, Harlem! Now I’ve seen Harlem, Harlem!
A green breeze of corn rising from the pavements
Plowed by the Dan dancers’ bare feet,
Hips rippling like silk and spearhead breasts,
Ballets of water lilies and fabulous masks
And mangoes of love rolling from the low houses
To the feet of police horses.
And along sidewalks I saw streams of white rum
And streams of black milk in the blue haze of cigars.
And at night I saw cotton flowers snow down
From the sky and the angels’ wings and sorcerers’ plumes.
Listen, New York! O listen to your bass male voice,
Your vibrant oboe voice, the muted anguish of your tears
Falling in great clots of blood,
Listen to the distant beating of your nocturnal heart,
The tom-tom’s rhythm and blood, tom-tom blood and tom-tom.

                                      III
New York! I say New York, let black blood flow into your blood.
Let it wash the rust from your steel joints, like an oil of life
Let it give your bridges the curve of hips and supple vines.
Now the ancient age returns, unity is restored,
The reconciliation of the Lion and Bull and Tree
Idea links to action, the ear to the heart, sign to meaning.
See your rivers stirring with musk alligators
And sea cows with mirage eyes. No need to invent the Sirens.
Just open your eyes to the April rainbow
And your eyes, especially your ears, to God
Who in one burst of saxophone laughter
Created heaven and earth in six days,
And on the seventh slept a deep Negro sleep.

Poetry Analysis: Leopold Sedar Senghor’s “New York”

                        New York is the commercial capital of America. Therefore it stands an emblem of financial stability and exponential growth. The poet Leopold Sedar Senghor exclaims that at first the beauty of New York held him spell-bound as it was superficial. It was limited to physicality of the “great long-legged golden girls.” The poet appears to be timid at the first sight of the City of Skyscrapers. Firstly, owing to his inferiority complex as the city held him in awe. Secondly, he could not confront the “blue metallic eyes”.

                      The adjective “metallic” has various connotations here. The term may refer to the lifelessness of the eyes. It may also allude to the nerve of steel. Furthermore, it points to the frigidity of the eyes. The phrase”frosty smile” appears to be a simile from a consumer society. The poet refers to the depth of the skyscrapers, when he should be talking about the height of the same. The line “lifting up owl eyes in the sun’s eclipse” reveals how the warmth of life is denied to them. The adjective “sulphurous” indicates pollution.

                        The skyscrapers seem to defy ‘cyclones’ as if challenging the very notion of God. The stone of the skyscrapers has weathered well against the climatic conditions. The sidewalks of Manhattan seem bald as compared to the grassy areas of nature. There are wells and pastures. All the birds seem to limit themselves to terraces. Nothing is deemed innocent here in this pretentious sophistication, pseudo-modern existence. No child’s laughter is to be heard, no mother suckling her baby. Only “legs in nylon” and “breasts with no sweat and smell.” In a consumer society, mouths are lipless due to lack of genuine expression and communication; what ultimately matters is profit and gain. Hard cash buys even love as people confine themselves to mercantilism.

                  No books are to be found that impart wisdom, as people are reluctant to part with wisdom too. The poet goes out to criticize European art asserting that the painter’s palette is filled with crystals of coral. The nights in Manhattan are characterized by insomnia. People give in to their impulsive needs. The term ‘hygienic loves’ refer to contraceptives, as they floated in the dark waters. The sanctity of love is treated as sewage.

                  The poet warns the superficial world to pay attention to the heeding of God-“signs and reckonings.” In Apoc., ii, 17, manna symbolizes the happiness of heaven. It is with hyssop that the blood of a bird offered in sacrifice is to be sprinkled for the cleansing of a man or a house affected with leprosy (Lev. 14: 4-7, 49-51).Senghor states that it was high time for manna and hyssop, the time for heavenly purity to descend on earth. The poet entreats with them to listen to the heart beating to the rhythm of one’s own blood, thereby making a distinction between the self and the conscious. The poet sees Harlem humming with sounds, solemn color and flamboyant smells. The three sensory perceptions are subject to artificial stimulations. This is the only interval to the man delivering pharmaceutical products. The pseudo-artificial products come into focus. The night holds more truth as compared to the day. The true colour of all things come to the fore .It is the purest form that sets life germinating before memory. All the amphibious elements-those pertaining to water and land are shining the suns.

                          Harlem is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Manhattan, which since the 1920s has been a major African-American residential, cultural, and business center. The term “Harlem” refers to the Amalgamation of African-American life as it was expressed, and as it stood for. Therefore the “corn springing from the pavements” represent the marriage of Africa and America, of nature and sophistication It stands for the assimilation of the ‘white rum” and “black milk.”The masks adorned are “fabulous masks” as one cannot tell apart the African from the American.”

I have seen the sky at evening snowing cotton flowers and

wings of seraphin and wizards plumes

Listen, New York listen to your brazen male voice your

vibrate oboe voice, the muted anguish of your tears

falling in great clots of blood

Listen to the far beating of your nocturnal heart,, rhythm

And blood of the drum, drum and blood and drum.

This drum stands for the spiritual pulse of African traditional life as echoed in Gabriel Okara’s “Mystic Drum.” The alternation of the words “drum” and “blood” reflect a pulse-like rhythm that emphasizes the same.

Senghor claims that unity is to be discovered in the reconciliation of the Lion, the Bull and the Tree; the wild, the domestic and the vegetative world. Eventually he comes to comprehend that there is no significant meaning to this sort of life. The end becomes the means. The meaning of the journey no longer holds significance in a fast-forward life. In fact, they do not have possess a heritage at all; therefore, there is no need “to invent the mermaids”. America is always questioned regarding a history of its own, its roots and tradition. Senghor asserts that there is no need to indulge in a culture of myth that they do not possess in the first place. The life prevalent there is based on the formula of success, in an era of competition. Life has lost its true purpose and rusted in the ‘steel articulations”. The steel articulations refer to the Industrial Revolution. Besides, it may also allude to the steel nerve of the colonizers. It connotes their rigid stanc.

e and policies. The poet wants the black blood to act as a lubricant and life-force in such a situation.

New York! I say New York, let the

black blood flow into your blood Cleaning the rust from your steel articulations, like an oil of life.

It is also said to be the “oil of life”. Blood is red in colour, and is therefore universal. Here the poet renders this blood unique by attributing it with the adjective “black”. But again, it acts as the “oil of life”;or sustains life that is a universal phenomenon.

“To New York’

                                        Beauty of New York : Blue eye, Golden Girl.  The poet Leopold Sedar Senghor exclaims that at first the beauty of New York held him spell-bound as it was superficial. It was limited to physicality of the “great long-legged golden girls.” The adjective “metallic” has various connotations here. The term may refer to the lifelessness of the eyes. It may also allude to the nerve of steel.

Night in New York

Sun’s eclipse

No Natural environment

                                    The line “lifting up owl eyes in the sun’s eclipse” reveals how the warmth of life is denied to them. The adjective “sulphurous” indicates pollution. The stone of the skyscrapers has weathered well against the climatic conditions.

Beauty of New York –

“New York! At first I was bewildered by your beauty,”

“No laugh from a growing child”

                                    Nothing is deemed innocent here in this pretentious sophistication, pseudo-modern existence. No child’s laughter is to be heard, no mother suckling her baby. The poet goes out to criticize European art asserting that the painter’s palette is filled with crystals of coral. The nights in Manhattan are characterized by insomnia.

“ long-legged, golden girls”

“blue metallic eyes”

“icy smile”

                      The poet warns the superficial world to pay attention to the heeding of God-“signs and reckonings.”  Senghor states that it was high time for manna and hyssop, the time for heavenly purity to descend on earth.

“Now is the time of manna and hyssop.”

                                Manna symbolizes the happiness of heaven. Hyssop that the blood of a bird offered in sacrifice is to be sprinkled for the cleansing of a man or a house affected with leprosy.  The three sensory perceptions are subject to artificial stimulations. This is the only interval to the man delivering pharmaceutical products.

Artificiality

Cultural heritage

Life without interest

Birds don’t have home

                                 Harlem is a neighbourhood in the New York City borough of Manhattan, which since the 1920s has been a major African-American residential, cultural, and business center. It stands for the assimilation of the”white rum” and “black milk. The masks adorned are “fabulous masks”

                                  The third stanza picks up the tempo, and Senghor is earnestly imploring New York to “let black blood flow into your blood..”  Senghor seeks to make New York aware of just how much of Africa’s culture is held within it. He encourages the people to “Let it give your bridges the curve of hips and supplvines. Idea links to action, the ear to the heart, sign to meaning.  Means  claims that unity is to be discovered in the reconciliation of the Lion, the Bull and the Tree.

 “your world needs sweetening, “

                                    The air will not deny you. Like a top Spin you on the navel of the storm. The end becomes the means. The meaning of the journey no longer holds significance in a fast-forward life. In fact, they do not have possess a heritage at all; therefore, there is no need “to invent the mermaids”The steel articulations refer to the Industrial Revolution. Besides, it may also allude to the steel nerve of the colonizers.

                            “New York! I say New York, let the black blood flow into your blood Cleaning the rust from your steel articulations, like an “oil of life.” He tries to purify New York, by washing away the old being the rust and the tainted ways and bringing it back to it once was. Negritude into a people who were probably very closed off, and rallies his Negro brethren to take pride in their heritage. Do not have equal position Lets black blood flow on New York

Fire and lce by Robert Frost

Fire and lce by Robert Frost

                 

Introduction of Robert Frost

                       Robert Lee Frost is one of the greatest of American poets. This great poet was born in San Francisco, california on march 26, 1874. There lay a piece of paper bearing the four following lines on Jawaharlal Nehru’s office desk after his death Robert Frost’s poem…...

Introduction of poem

     Fire : Desire , Pain

     lce : Indifference , Hate

                 This short poem of Robert frost enterprise his own thinking about how probably the Earth would be destroyed.  The Indian oriental myth and the western myth both suggest that there would be the end of this earth. The Indian oriental myth suggests that the earth would be destroyed of because of water and the western Christian myth suggest that the earth would be destroyed because of fire. This we find in the first stanza of poem.

     Some say the world will end in Fire,

     Some say in lce.

                  Some people are of the opinion that the earth would be destroyed because of fire while some others think that the earth would be destroyed because of ice-water.

                The present poem shows the poets thinking about it. This poem is about the fate of the world. What will happen? Some people saying that world destroy in fire while some people are saying that world destroy in ice or because of ice. It is our thoughts we never known how it will ends? But it is just point to think about it.

   Reference:-

http://www.internal.org/Robert_Frost/Fire_and_Ice

             

          

One night @ the call center

One night @ the call center

This blog is My part of classrom activity on One night @ the call center by Chetan Bhagat. To show the worksheet of given task Click here

                 

1) What sort of effect of Globalization is found in on@tcc?

 What is Globalization ?

 “ Globalization is a process of interaction and integration among the people, companies, and governments of different nations, a process driven by international trade and investment and aided by information technology”

                       The title of the novel it self tells about the effect of globalization in call center. Chetan bhagat wants to give message to the Indian that who working in call center they just get good salary but it not give it opportunity to do something else or for their skills and creativity.

                        We find globalization in this novel through the title itself CALL CENTER because it also represents that now world became smaller one. We can connect with each other with the electric devices. It also true that we all loss our connectivity with ourselves. So we face different types of problems which are writer shows in his novel.

                      

2) Comment on Narrative structure of the Novel. Compare with that of life of pi.

                    Chetan Bhagat also use the narrative structure and the make prologue and epilogue Prologue means staring of book and epilogue means ending of book. His narrative style  is vey interasting because Kanhpur to Dilhi travelling, and then beautiful lady come  and then  she say story about one night in call center and her one condition that Bhagat write book about this story and Bhagat agree and then she say story and then last she go without introduced herself that is more  interasting in novel and narrative structure.

              We also connect with this novel with the movie Life of Pie. In the movie we find that Pie’s mother is religious person and we find that his father believe in reality and thinking about the reality of life. In the novel all characters are believe in modernity and when they face difficult situation they remember the God. So we accept that when we put in difficult situation we one or another way help us to God. So we can’t deny it.

                     

3) What is popular literature? Is on@tcc literature? illustrate.

            Popular Literature and ON@TCC:The writer of the 21st century mainly deals with the theme related to the problems of the society that people like to read about the novels. In the same way Chetan Bhagat always talks about in his novels the contemporary problems. Because throughout the literature writer can shares the wrong things which is surrounding to us and it became popular literature for the readers. In this novel we see the problems of Radhika and Isha.

4) How far can this Novel be Categorized as Cyberpunk ?

             Cyberpunk is relates with technology. It is also genre of scientific fiction. In this novel, we find much use of technology like…. Microsoft word, E- mail, F.M. and the call center itself remains for technology. But here in this novel Chetan Bhagat has smartly represented the ‘bug virus’ to threat foreigners. It also taken as plot mover.

Education, Technology and ELT

Education, Technology and ELT 

Hello reader,  

This blog is part of my classroom activity of unite three language laboratory.

Here is blog link of given task.

Video – 1: Changing Education paradigms – Sir Ken Robinson

                                In this video Sir Ken Robinson is talk about the public education system. He criticized and not in side of public education system.

                             Globalization tries to disintegrate, the wall between culture and Nations and national identity convert into Global identity .This observation Ken Robinson say that globalization will force us to teach several things, in the more open way and people should be ready to accept ideas coming from worldwide. In different capacities which kind of a openness narrowness  should not have in all those things .

                          Ken Robinson says, the best of learning happen with grow. when we look  or when we judge isolation.

Video 2  :- Sugata Mitra: School in the Cloud - SOLE                                                                    My wish is to help design the future of learning by supporting children all over the world to tap into their innate sense of wonder.                          This video is all about Ted talk build school in cloud, very famous Ted Talk. Sugata Mitra, he is Successful research work is “ Hole in The wall” he was working in Delhi university. He teacher of physics and Technology and started experimenting near the slums in Delhi.                          Help me build the School in the Cloud, a learning lab in India, where children can embark on intellectual adventures by engaging and connecting with information and mentoring online. I also invite you, wherever you are, to create your own miniature child-driven learning environments and share your discoveries.  Video 3 :- Sugata Mitra:- Future of Learning                                                     Sugata Mitra says that now, we have to calculator which can arithmetic things why do we burden our brains . Future of learning ideas SOLE self organized learning environment.                                     He gives the meaning of SOLE, means Self Organised Learning Environment. In this video he talks about self learning. He had experiment on various remote areas and with the children from there. He organized self learning lab. Childern can improve their English. School in cloud means the children learn from internet  and from every where. They improve their habits of self learning. Sugata Mitra. Video 4 :  Use of Video in Education                                                                             In this video Salman Khan talk about the use of videos in education. Now a days technology is very helpful in education and also in self learning. Through the videos studens can learn the things in a very easy and simple way.                                      There are lots of ideas about technology videos flipped learning blended learning this way integration. Bill Gates ask several questions of Salman model of courses near about video games . He  taken from video games as soon as we do something we get. And then we cross level then there is Bache . video 5 :- Marc Prensky: Digital Natives, Dgital Immigrants                                                        In this video Marc Prenscky talk about Digital Natives and Digital Immigrants. The present time is the time of technology. So, the new generation is growing up with technology and also take education through self learning with technology  rather than traditional way of teaching.                                      20th century today's students k through college represent the first generations to grow up with this new technology they spent their entire lives surrounded by and using computers,  video games digital music players video cams , cell phones and all the other toys, ……                                     In Future for  Digital natives there is no need to learn tables or multiples and calculation, they learn only how to install calculator. So, we can say that if digital immigrants wants to teach IE to digital natives, they have to change their methodology of traditional teaching and they have to learn new methodology of teaching with new technology. Video 6 :- David Crystal: The effect of new Technologies on English                                                                             David Crystal Talks about effect of new technologies on English, Biggest Challenge for English Teachers in the times of internet and also talk about texting is good for English language.                                     David Crystal, talking about how new technologies have an effect on English today. There are new varieties of English, such as newspapers, then the development of the telephone people thought that the telephone was going to the a disaster as they didn't think people were going to communicate face to face anymore. video 7 :- David Crystal: The Biggest Challenge for English teachers in the times of Internet                                      The biggest challenge without a doubt is to keep pace with language change no question that is the difficulty always has been a difficulty with teaching but it's particularly a difficulty now given that language is changing so fast it's changing for two reasons one reason the internet which is indeed fostering new varieties and new experiences faster than ever before you know in the old days if you invented a new word it could take a generation before the rest of the world knew about that new word if you invent a new word today and put it on Facebook everybody knows about it within 24 hours less.                                   Two most important jobs in the world the most difficult jobs in the world are not brain surgery and nuclear physics and so on they're easy no the big jobs are …...First of all translating and interpreting and secondly language teaching. In the old days, in English language teaching, things seemed very calm and simple. Binary concepts organized our thinking. Here are three, British vs. American English, speech vs. writing, prescriptive vs. descriptive. Video :8  David Crystal : Texting is " Good" for English Language                                                                                          David crystal in this talk about his theory that “Taxing is good for the English language “ We knew about language was much clearer.                                                First point is that it's kids that do it now so but it's something like three billion mobile phones in the world at the moment half the world’s population has got a mobile phone at the moment yeah some thirds of those people text.                                          Teachers have to be alert. Texting is good for language, but some are disagree for his ideas. David Crystal looking positively towards that. So, in short David crystal wants to say that more you use technology, like computers and mobiles, more your literacy grows.