Diary Writing - Writing skill Task

# At - Department of English,MKBU. 

# To improve our writing skill

# Diary Writing 

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Motivational Speech by Himal Pandya

# Attended Motivational Lecture
# By Himal Pandya
# At Department of English ,MKBU.
# Topic : " Zindgi Na Milegi Dobara"

           For the real delight of life  one should cultivate the habit of living the life with the concept of " Sakshi Bhav ."  ( click on it )

      Most of the time students gets frustrated from the continuous thinking of career and in this process they forgets to live the life. And that time motivational speech helps a lot. 

      Fortunately today we all students got chance of hearing the exceptional speech from Himal Pandya Sir. In the beginning of the speech he talked about YOLO. 

                    You Only Live Once

           So as per the abbreviation again you will be not as fortunate as you are now so live the life. 

           These are the main point which we should keep in mind. 

     We have all the senses so there is no need of complaints. Think about those who have not these kinds of senses. Sir explained this thing with the  examples of seven wonders. 

        There are so many peoples in the world who have not hands or legs but yet they lives their lives happily. For example Nick Vujicic. It's all about self worth. Another example is of Michelangelo. Finds unnecessary things from your self and removes  it. Sir has also gave the example of Tolstoy who says that make recreation and increase the value. And also he refers to the Herbert Hoover.

        He himself also survive from the suffering of heart disease. Overall it was very enthusiastic day. And at last I would like to thanks the Sir who has invested his precious time with the students.

                                                          Thank you 

         

Modernism - Modernist Poems

Activity : Identify the " Modernist " symbols, imagery and metaphors from the poems. 

What is Modernism ? : " Any of various movements in art, architecture, literature etc. Generally characterized by a Deliberate break with classical and traditional forms of methods of expression ." 

         People started their own views in the world. Rational thinking seemed increasing. Two wars effects seemed but anti war theme also came. The new term Avant Garde also introduced. Mainly development seemed in the technology, science and in politics. 

Characteristics of the Modernism : 

- Individual perspective came in the existence. 

- Development in  Science and politics .

-  Stream of consciousness seemed. 

- Experiments became necessary. 

- More question  seemed open ending. 

- Loss of faith. 

- Chaos also takes place. 

- Passion for humanity. 

- Marxist influence. 

- Art for life's sake. 

      10 Very Short Modernist Poems

 

Activity : Identify the " Modernist " symbols, imagery and metaphors from the poems. 

 1) T.E. Hulme 's The Embankment : 

Once, in finesse of fiddles found I ecstasy,
In a flash of gold heels on the hard pavement.
Now see I
That warmth’s the very stuff of poesy.
Oh, God, make small
The old star-eaten blanket of the sky,
That I may fold it round me and in comfort lie.

• This poem is about falling of man.  How lust leads man towards the decayed. Because of these kinds of addiction his life is now became totally dull and now the question arises of existence. So the hopeless man prays to the God to give the shelter of sky. Or we can interpret that may be he wants to die or tries to hide himself. 

#Embankment - For the hopeless people 

#Gold Heels - Desire, Prostitution 

# Blanket of the sky -  Shelter, hide himself 

2) Joseph Campbell 's  Darkness :

Darkness.
I stop to watch a star shine in the boghole –
A star no longer, but a silver ribbon of light.
I look at it, and pass on.

• This poem's title it self suggests the depression of somebody. And as a result of it speaker don't likes to see the stars. We can interpret that this sky now gives the  feeling of boghole. But he likes the light.

# Darkness - Dullness ,Evilness 

# Boghole - Which can not sustains the weight because of the softness. 

# Silver Ribbon  - Mental illness

3) Edward Storer 's Image :

Forsaken lovers,

Burning to a chaste white moon,

Upon strange pyres of loneliness and drought.

• This poem seems like an image. The image of sorrow, everything looks like vanished. The situation is became like Moon - deserted land. Somebody is on pyre and due to the lake of love everyone  has paid the price. 

# Moon - As a deserted land 

# Pyre - death, drought, loneliness 

4) Ezra Pound 's 

In a Station of the Metro :

THE apparition of these faces in the crowd;
Petals on a wet, black bough.

•   This poem also based on imagism. As title suggests the image of Metro Station. The situation is looking crowded. People just disappears in the crowd as apparition.  Everyone is rushing. Faces are compared with the petal of the bough. But speaker uses the black and wet bough, means the situation is of after the rain when branches becomes black.

# Apparition - Ghost, Imagery 

# Petals - Flowers, Faces 

# Wet, black bough - After the Rain

5) H .D.  Hilda Doolittle 's  The Pool : 

Are you alive? I touch you.  You quiver like a sea-fish.  I cover you with my net.  What are you—banded one? • In this poem we finds some questions. Which represents the modernism. Imagery also we finds in the work. We can interpret that speaker has visited the pool or pond . It means as a discovery because later on he finds something.....? Again it's looks like fish not a fish. So normally The pool gives meaning of rottenness but here it gives positive message.  # Imagery  # Only questions  6) Richard Aldington 's Insouciance :

IN and out of the dreary trenches,
Trudging cheerily under the stars,
I make for myself little poems
Delicate as a flock of doves.
They fly away like white-winged doves.

• It looks like a poem of Soldier. Because they have not at all fear of death. Title also suggest that thing. In the dreary trenches soldiers might feels boring. And speaker writes poem and it is kind like doves. And one day death will come and they all will gone as white winged doves.

# Imagination 

# Dreary Trenches 

# Flock of doves 

# White winged dove 

7) T. S Eliot 's  Morning at the Window : 

They are rattling breakfast plates in basement kitchens, 

And along the trampled edges of the street 

I am aware of the damp souls of housemaids 

Sprouting despondently at area gates. 
 
The brown waves of fog toss up to me        

 
Twisted faces from the bottom of the street, 

And tear from a passer-by with muddy skirts 

An aimless smile that hovers in the air 

And vanishes along the level of the roofs

• As title suggests it seems that Speaker is watching out side from the window at the morning. And he sees the poor condition of the people who lives on the pavement.  These  poor people is  not getting enough food . And children are playing in mud. They have not good clothes. 

# Basement 

#  Trampled edges 

# Damp Soul

# Twisted Faces 

# Muddy Skirts 

# An Aimless smile 

8) William Carlos Williams ' s  The Red Wheelbarrow : 

so much depends
upon

a red wheel
barrow

glazed with rain
water

beside the white
chickens.

• Poem is of imagination. The red wheelbarrow which is used in the farming. But after raining it becomes more shiny. It gives a rural image Also. White chickens comes near to the wheelbarrow to see its beauty. 

     It becomes so difficult to understand this poem because it depends upon us how we think. 

# Red wheelbarrow 

# White chicken 

9 ) Wallace Stevens' s Anecdote of  the Jar :

I placed a jar in Tennessee,   

And round it was, upon a hill.   

It made the slovenly wilderness   

Surround that hill.

The wilderness rose up to it,

And sprawled around, no longer wild.   

The jar was round upon the ground   

And tall and of a port in air.

It took dominion everywhere.   

The jar was gray and bare.

It did not give of bird or bush,   

Like nothing else in Tennessee.

• This poem is also of imagination. Speaker puts a Jar on the hill. Which represents how an art crests  it's place in nature. But yet it has not as much as power of re creation as nature has. 

#  Jar - Art 

# Bush - Recreation, Wilderness 

10) E.  E. Cummings 's I : 

l(a... (a leaf falls on loneliness)

l(a

le
af
fa
ll

s)
one
l

iness

• It is an innovative poem with imagination. A few lines but gives the feeling of loneliness. How a single leaf falls on the ground. Which gives the effects of loneliness. 

# Leaf 

# Loneliness 

                                                   Thank you 

Bhavnagar Gadhyasabha Jayantbhai Pathak - Smriti Din

# Attended 
    Shri Jayantibhai Pathak - Smriti Din
# At Shamaldas College ,Bhavnagar. 
# Bhavnagar " Gadhyasabha" 
# Harish Mahuvakar's books releasing/ discharge 1- " Try English "
                   2- " Le, Tu Pan Jo Ne...! " ( Essay Collection)  
#  Ajay Oza's books releasing / discharge              1- " Once again " ( Gujarati stories /collection )             2- " Kirdar " ( Hindi stories / collection) 

      What we see in today's time is that humanities is some how getting missing from the society. It is the literature which gives the lessons for the better civilization.

          In the beginning of the event  Dr. Dilip Barad talked about the novel " Train to Pakistan "  which is written by Khushwant Singh. And he has tried to give explanation from various angle. 

  • How nation's center decides the border of that village.

  •  Train which represents the machinery world. And he tried to connect with the people. 

  •  As in Trains, there are different classes same way it shows the class of society. 

   •  He gives the reference of the book "Civilization and its discontents " by Sigmund Freud. 

    •  He referred the word conquer in the context of encroachment. 

     •  Tryst with Destiny and Tryst with Train.

            What we get from the talk is that with the help of the novel's character he tried to give the message of non violence. It is necessary too because nowadays " we can see in India how mob lynching is taking place. 

            After that Prabodh Shukla shared his experience of his past. And he told that " What child sees it will never get  rub from the mind. According to him to remember something means development of truth .

          In the last Vipulbhai Purohit talked about Harishbhai' s essay collection and mainly it refers the author's journey around the domestic and wild life of the state. And My dear Jayu also talked on  Ajaybhai Oza's work and suggested that there is no need of alankara in the work but there must should be balance between thinking and feeling because literature requires balance. 

          Overall it was fruitful session to attend. But it reminds me  that one should praise the poem not poet. 

                                                          Thank you 

        

The Waste Land - By T. S. Eliot

                     

   " The Waste Land " is a modern epic poem written by T. S. Eliot. This poem is divided into the five parts which represents the sexual perversion and spiritual degradation but yet in the end it gives the message of hope for the betterment of future.

                         Thinking Activity 

   1- What are your views on the following image after reading 'The Waste Land'? Do you think that Eliot is regressive as compared to Nietzche's views? or Has Eliot achieved universality of thought by recalling mytho-historical answer to the contemporary malaise?

•  According to me Friedrich Nietzsche's noble idea of Ubermensch is more significant than the ideas  of Eliot. And Eliot's ideas are seems regressive. In today's time if someone is suggesting you to take the help of religion or of religious activities for the moral living than it will not leads you towards the real morality. Because what we find is that those people who are involved in this kinds of things they themselves are immoral. If we see the history than we finds that they all were the great followers of the God but yet the sexual perversion we can finds there also. So we can say that, that idea is not working. And one more thing is that there is nothing like miracle which can help us it is up to our own self how we defines the real concept of spirituality. Where as Nietzsche's idea gives spirituality. Because if we are doing good for others, trust in our self, self control, than there is no need of anything else . In history also we finds that kinds of figures who had great self trust and self control and habit of helping others  like Krishana, Rama, Buddha. Which makes life happy and easier. 

  2-  Prior to the speech, Gustaf Hellström of the Swedish Academy made these remarks: 

        What are your views regarding these comments? Is it true that giving free vent to the repressed 'primitive instinct' lead us to happy and satisfied life? or do you agree with Eliot's view that 'salvation of man lies in the preservation of the cultural tradition'?

 •  Here I am not agree with the concept of Freud. Because giving free vent to the repressed primitive instinct will automatically leads towards the anarchy. For transitioning happiness we should not create disorganization in the society. Where as here Eliot seems more powerful than Freud because if we lives our lives with some discipline or with organization than life becomes more  easier. 

  3 - Write about allusions to the Indian thoughts in 'The Waste Land'. (Where, How and Why are the Indian thoughts referred?)

  • In the poem we finds so many references of the Indian thoughts. 

      = Fire Sermon :  The third part of the poem itself gives the idea of Buddha's sermon. In which he preaches about liberation from the suffering. 

    = River Ganga and Himalayas : Here Eliot uses the reference of River Ganga in the context of purification. And Himalayas as a peace of mind and also for the spirituality .

       

      Ganga was sunken, and the limp leaves

        Waited for rain, while the black clouds

         Gathered far distant, over Himavant.

       The jungle crouched, humped in silence.

                  Then spoke the thunder

      = Thunder : Here Eliot uses the reference of Upanishads through the akashvani Prajapati gives the solutions for all the problems. 

       

      = Three Da : Datta - Devote oneself for noble deeds . Dayadhvam - Sympathies for others. Damyata - Self control, which will give the solution .

     

      = Shantih  - Eliot uses this mantra in the context of : after all the understanding peace will be there and this peace comes after agony which takes us towards the new hope. 

       • Eliot uses this all the Indian references because the situation of his country is became like barren land. Where as these spiritual ideas of India seems more powerful and people also lives the free life without any plunge. So we can say that  to make his own land again fertile Eliot has used these ideas. 

                                                           Thank you. 

     

Rangoli Competition - 2018

# Participated in Rangoli Competition
# Organized by - Art and Creativity  Committee
# At Department of English, MKBU.

# Topic - Guru Purnima 

# As a group - Vipul, Ravji, Sagar 

   

          According to me everyone has a quality of art. If you have not given any topic than it becomes more easier for the contestants but this time they have given one topic and we have to make Rangoli according to it.  After pondering over the topic we just went with this Rangoli and we have tried to not take help of artificial colors. And also we have not follow the traditional way of making the Rangoli. 

# Theme :

   •  Teacher  / Guru -  Who cultivates the habit of scientific temper in students. As in the Rangoli  we have tried to show the process of full moon.

    •  Teacher gives the freedom of using the technology. But also teaches the difference between freedom and dissipation. So in Rangoli we have tried to show the What's App ,FB, Blogger, Google Plus and teacher connects this all apps with the edutainment. 

  • Teacher must should be healthy from mind. So you can see the hands of teacher in the position of gyan mudra.

    •   According to this teacher if you come  up with the questions than it will be considered as a present.  So you can see the hands which are rendering the questions. 

     •    If you walks on the given path of Guru than initially it might be full of thrones but later on it will lead you towards the success and happiness. That you can see in the Rangoli where one path is divided into hardness with the help of thrones and softness through the beautiful flowers. 

         At the end it was a great experience for me. Because in a way it cultivates our thinking ability.  And one more thing is that to make one Rangoli you requires new thinking and fortitude which helps us in achieving goals. 

                                                   Thank you...

Welcome Function 2018

                 

#  Attended Welcome function 2018

# At - Department of English, MKBU. 

# Organized by : Sem - 3 Students 

#  Thanks to the Guest : Dr. Jay Badiyani 

          It is the noble duty of host to give Xenial welcome to the guest and  we all know that it helps a lot in building a good relationship among them. And obviously it makes someone feel better with the accommodation too. 

         So today on the  behalf of sem -3 students celebration committee had organised one welcome function for the juniors. It was a great session to attend. And  as a seniors our duty was to provide a stage to juniors and make them feel free from glossophobia. As we all know that next generation is smarter than earlier one and somehow that thing reflected in their event. 

               The  special  guest and motivational speaker was Dr. Jay Badiyani Sir who talked about some interesting things like Why you wants to live a life..? What is the meaning of the life..? According to him one should not run after money, relationship and image. It is the passion towards the work which makes life more interesting and if you work hard than this all three things will automatically come to you. And he told that do whatever you like. And also he gave the good example of Bill Gates. 

                At the end Dr Dilip Barad Sir had suggested some of the invaluable mottos .

• You are doing for your self not for others.

• Don't accept returns from others.

• We want to take everyone in the journey.

• Study is the main priority. 

• Learn to unlearn the thing which is wrong. 

• No excuses. 

• Reflective Learning. 

• Process is important, not Product. 

• You all got label of Department. Whatever you do it will reflect the image of Department.

                                              Thank you... 

                                              Courtesy.... 

               

                 

               

" Matilda" Movie Review and Thinking Activity

                                     

# Movie screening for educational purpose.

# At - Department of English, MKBU.  

    " Matilda" is a 1996 American children's fantasy comedy film. It is directed by Danny Devito

  # A significant movie to watch

• Uses comic way to criticize the characters

• Criticises the dishonesty of business man •Gives more importance to the Edutainment

• Good End - Good wins, evil loses 

• Nothing is impossible if you have a will power

  # Genius : 

                Matilda is the main character of the movie. She is a kind girl with full of cognitive power. Matilda's parents neglects her, so as a result of it she makes company with the books. ( Moby Dick by Herman Melville - click on it  ) and ( Books of Charles Dickens  click on it )  These are  the books which makes her more powerful and sharper than any other children. She always wants to go in school.  We can say that she wants to leave her house because the situation of her parents is an unethical one. We can find that during the movie she shows her despise towards her father (Harry) and also towards the Principal (Trunchbull) of the school by using her telekinetic power. In the end she uses her power and makes everything decent. And lives with her teacher ( Miss Harry). Who understands her very well and provides a great example of teacher. 

                                       

  # Brutal : 

                   Trunchbull is the principal of the 

School where Matilda is studying . But her behavior towards children is like inhuman. She always mistreats the students. She uses children to play Shot Put, Hammer Throw and Javelin Throw which shows her cruelty. But Matilda uses her power and punishes the Trunchbull. In the end she leaves the school. 

                In the classroom we finds one Motto - " If you are having fun than you are not learning." Which shows the terrible thinking of Trunchbull. 

                                       

              Thus we can say that it is a worth watching movie. Which has good technique with humor and also in the end it gives a  great message of will power too. 

                        Thinking Activity 

      

                                         

    " Who Will Cry When You Die? " It is a self help book. It is written by Robin Sharma. And I often uses to read this book.  

        This book is about personal development. There are 101 quotes in the book which tries to simplify the way of our lives. And so many captivating stories are also there  in each quote. This book also help us in releasing the stress and anxiety. 

                     It gives life lessons for individual happiness. And encourages us to live a meaningful life. Also writer uses the rational thinking too. 

 Some of the quotes from book : 

- Discover your Calling 

- Maintain your Perspective 

- Develop an honest philosophy 

- Talk to yourself 

- Learn to be Silent 

- List your Problems 

- Practice the action Habit 

- Enjoy the path, not just the Reward 

- Cure your monkey Mind

- Practice Forgiveness 

- Become a Volunteer 

- Sleep Less 

- Be an Adventurer 

- Live fully so you can die Happy 

    

         What Robinson Sharma says : When I was growing up, my father said something to me I will never forget, “Son, when you were born, you cried while the world rejoiced. Live your life in such a way that when you die the world cries while you rejoice.” We live in an age when we have forgotten what life is all about.

                                                        Thank you...