THE GIFT OF INDIA
SUMMARY-The poem (The Gift of India) is written by Sarojini Naidu is a tribute to the Indian solider who fought bravely and killed mercilessly in the first world war while fighting to defend the British monarch.
The poetess explains how they plundered mother India of her various wealth.But thee were only material wealth and resources like gold,cotton,food grain etc.But the British rulers snatched from her the most invaluable wealth, that is the the Indian soldiers from the breast of mother India and made them fight for the British,not for India's sake.
The Indian soldiers fought selflessly and fearlessly and sacrificed their lives during the first world war while fighting against the Germans its ailles. Their selfless sacrifice is more precious and invaluable,than any other thing in the universe.They were slaughter mercilessly in the war front and buried in the foreign land.Their dead bodies were found scattered like shells on the sea shores.The soldiers are also compared to the flowers which were cut down without any particular purpose or reasons.
In the third stanza the poet could not measure the bereavement of mother India losing her so many brave and selfless sons.But mother India's pride of the bravery of her sons is beyond any measures.
In the last stanza the poet is hopeful and her hope is that this war,this violence will come to an end one day and love and peace will be prevailing in the world again.People would forget hatred and the warmongers will be jobless.Then the bravery and the sacrifices of the Indian soldiers would be remembered for ever with honour and gratitude and,their names would be written in the pages of history with their own blood forever.
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SALVATORE
"Salvatore out and out the story of a good man".Do you agree?Give reason in support of your anser.
Life in a small,insignificant island of Ischia is slow,sedate and people their are simple in nature.Salvatore, the son of a fisher man owning vineyard as well is always happy with his diving swimming or lazing away his days.he also acted as nursemaid to his two younger brothers.He shouted to them to come inshore when they ventured out too far.
Life in Ischia is simple but difficult.provisions for livelihood are brought with the little money received from the sale of fish from the sea.Grapes from vineyards also provide the islanders a little earning to buy requisite articles for living.Salvatore faces adversities of life in different forms.The first shock he receives is from king victor Emmanuel where he received a form of rheumatism.Therefore his marriage with a beautiful girl of Ischia is postponed and latter cancelled.His smile is very sad and his eyes has the look of a dog.That has been beaten but he has never said a hard word for the girl he has loved.
On the insistence of mother ,Salvatore married Assunta. Another local girl-not so beautiful but of a little means who bears two boys children to Salvatore.
Salvatore becomes a father but Salvatore the boy sits tight in his soul and he never gives up.Life becomes rigorously pleasent for Salvatore.He becomes a fisher man.He rows to the sea with his brothers to catch fish.He works in the vineyard,makes his sons bathe in the sea.And when rheumatism gains at his bone,he lazes on the sea beach smilingly.
Thus the Salvatore sustained his untained innocence to make him happy.
Look into Salvatore's life through Maugham's eyes,and discover the goodness of his character that lapressed the author.
William sommerset Maugham was a humanist.All must all his writings have strong undertones of human sufferings from broken marriages,devasted families.poverty and colonial exploitation.Salvatore is another such story that portrays the pain and hardship of a young man who has suffered setback in his life through astounding for bearing and compaure.
Salvatore went to serve in king victor emmanuel to far off china when had never gone out of his village even once.when the war duty come he was an adolescent.He had been in romance with a local girl.The involuntary military service call tore him away from his village and from his girl.He didn't rage nor did he try to evade.He fell in line.Like any other young man with sense of responsiblity and patriotism.In for away china he as crippled by rheumatism-a deadly misfortune to befall a young man from a working call family.Again he took the misfortune in his own way when he could not spot his beloved in the shore among the crowd gathered to welcome his back he was shocked but the deadlist blow come when she told him painly that the marriage had been aborted due to his physical disability.Salvatore didn't object,didn't curse her.Unlike most jilted lovers he returned home dejected,but not the least vengeful.The wound in his heart was big but but he managed to hide it from other.He remained quiet.
After his marriage to Assunta he never looked back.He became a loving husband and a doting father.He work hard to make his family.In the midst of his to children and his wife Assunta,he found bliss and fulfillment.In more ways than one,Salvatore emerges as an ideal young man.Spite,revenge and cursing doesn't touch his heart.He remained committed to his duty.The story does leave an exceptional end,but the unevenful end imparts a rare goodness to the character of Salvatore.
