Tuesday 23 January 2018

Gerard Genette's "Structuralism and literary criticism"

Here I'm giving my answer of the given task. The link of the task is given below...
http://dilipbarad.blogspot.in/2015/03/structuralism-and-literary-criticism.html


Being a structuralist critic, how would you analyse literary text or TV serial or film? You can select any image or TV serial or film or literary text or advertisement and apply structuralist method.



Structuralism In Genette’s words, ‘if the writer questions the universe, the critic questions literature, that is to say, the universe of signs. But what was a sign for the writer (the work) becomes meaning for the critic (since it is the object of the critical discourse), and in another way what was meaning for the writer (his view of the world) becomes a sign for the critic, as the theme and symbol of a certain literary nature’.



Here I’m doing structuralism of the advertisement of Vodafone. In this ad they are not speaking any particular word it mostly based on symbols.





The ad starts with the symbol of Vodafone on the screen and one dog which is also a symbol of Vodafone. Here they use the dog to show their towers of network. You can also see that at first that dog is relaxing but suddenly he stand up and start running. Now if you notice the background it shows the hilly area and there is village so we can read it as that there is village between hilly areas and mostly there is no one who use Vodafone but suddenly a boy comes who later shows in the ad he uses Vodafone network and all towers(dog) are alert and they start their work. It is also wants to show that wherever you are Vodafone is everywhere.







After that you can see in this three images, in first image there is only a small hole from where the dog makes their way, then in second image there is woods which are like obstacles and the dogs are jumping over that then they shows stairs, in short they wants to say that they will provide their network by passing every obstacles came in between their way.



 After that as per shown in this image all Vodafone dogs are running and there is also one other dog who is not from Vodafone. Now as Vodafone shows their towers by dogs then the other dog here also suggest the tower of someone else’s company. They wants to show that there is only one tower of other company in rural or hilly areas where as Vodafone has many towers in that area and they all are running means working. In short they wants to say that Vodafone has very strong network.





After that there is image that all dogs are near one boy which shows that that boy is using Vodafone and all dogs are staring at the boy which in a way wants to show that there is full network. They all are near the user of Vodafone and as per shown in second image the Vodafone user is satisfy with Vodafone service.

The dog which Vodafone use for their symbol is called Pug. The pug dog known for being sociable and gentle companion dogs but here I don’t see them as anything else but towers of Vodafone network because in the very beginning Vodafone shows their symbol with red line so I interpret all the sings in particular way.

Structural analysis of two poems



My Love is like to ice, and I to fire:
How comes it then that this her cold so great
Is not dissolved through my so hot desire,
But harder grows the more I her entreat?
Or how comes it that my exceeding heat
Is not allayed by her heart-frozen cold,
But that I burn much more in boiling sweat,
And feel my flames augmented manifold?
What more miraculous thing may be told,
That fire, which all things melts, should harden ice,
And ice, which is congeal’d with senseless cold,
Should kindle fire by wonderful device?
Such is the power of love in gentle mind,
That it can alter all the course of kind.
By Edmund Spenser

Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I’ve tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.
By Robert Frost

The poem by Edmund Spenser “Ice and fire” is about his beloved. He says that his love is like fire and his beloved is like ice which means that poet’s beloved is ignore the love of poet. In the poem by Robert Frost “fire and ice” Frost talking about the end of the world that weather it will end on fire or ice then he says that both have ability to destroy world.

As we first see the word like fire and ice, the first thing came in our mind is that fire is something bad and ice is something good but here in this both poem though they both have different theme but then even both poet shows that fire is good and ice is suggest something bad. Edmund Spenser says that his love is like fire but his beloved is like ice who ignore every effort of poet and Frost also compare his passionate desires with fire and hatred with ice. So I found that both privileged fire on ice.

Thank you.

Friday 12 January 2018

Northrp Frye's Archetypal criticism

Here is my answer of the given task. The link of the task is as below...
http://dilipbarad.blogspot.in/2014/12/northrop-frye-archetypes-of-literature.html
1) What is archetypal criticism? What does the archetypal critic do?

As per dictionary meaning “Archetype” means a skeleton or a particular structure or pattern of something specific and  In literary criticism the term archetype denotes recurrent narratives designs, patterns of action, character-types, themes, and images which are identifiable in a wide variety of works of literature, as well as in myths, dreams, and even social rituals. The work of Archetypal critic is to find a particular pattern in literature and as per their research literature follows the cycle of birth and death and re-birth it also follows the natural cycle, seasons and also solar cycle. So from this type of research the archetypal critic does their work.

2) What is Frye trying to prove by giving an analogyof 'physics to nature' and 'criticism to literature'?

By giving an analogy of ‘physics to nature’ and ‘criticism to literature’ Frye in a way trying to say that as the student of physics studied nature but they didn’t say that they are studying nature they say they are studying physics same way the students of literature are studied the criticism of literature, they are not studied literature because literature is not like science it can not be taught but the criticism of literature can be taught so here Frye trying to prove that what we studied is not literature but criticism of literature.

3) Show your views of criticism as an organised body of knowledge, mention relation of literature with history and philosophy.

As Northrop Frye says that we are not studying literature but we studying the criticism of literature and after that he says that criticism is an organized body of knowledge because everything which we are doing in criticism has scientific pattern and to support this idea he says that philosophy and history both are the pillars of literature and by doing criticism we also studied events of history and ideas of philosophy. So in this way philosophy and history both have connected to the literature.



4) Briefly explain inductive method with illustration of shakespeare's Hamlet's grave digger's scene.

Inductive method is like moving towards from specific to general observation. Like from the grave digging scene of ‘Hamlet’ we move towards some general observations like the scene of graveyard always shows that something bad will going to happen or the death will happen, second is everyone is mortal whether it is servant or king, then we can see that when work become regular it will no more affect such as to others like digging grave for someone is sad but diggers are singing a song. The conversation between both diggers shows the real situation of that age like corruption and blind faith for someone who did suicide. So this is inductive method that from a particular scene we are moving towards some general observations.

5) Briefly explain deductive method with reference to an analogy to music, painting, rhythm and pattern. Give examples of the outcome of deductive method.

Deductive method is something in which we are observing general things first and then from that observation we are moving towards something specific. In music we have rhythm and it takes time to understand and in painting it has patterns which can be understand in one glance. Music travel in time and painting is in spatial. Literature has both like when we start read something it takes time to complete and appreciate like music but when we complete reading we can see the whole picture of that book or anything which we read in front of our eyes like painting, so from this deductive method we come to know that literature moves in time and also it is spatial.

6) Refer to the Indian seasonal grid if you can please read small Gujarati or Hindi or English poem from the archetypal approach ad apply Indian seasonal grid in the interpretation.

                                                               (Indian seasonal grid)

Here I found one Hindi poem on all Indian seasons which has particular archetype which we can see from the poem. The poem is as below…

सूरज तपता धरती जलती।
गरम हवा ज़ोरों से चलती।
तन से बहुत पसीना बहता,
हाथ सभी के पंखा रहता।

आ रे बादल! काल्रे बादल!
गरमी दूर भगा रे बादल!
रिमझिम बूँदें बरसा बादल!
झम-झम पानी बरसा बादल!

लो घनघोर घटाएँ छाईं,
टप-टप-टप-टप बूँदें आईं।
बिजली चमक रही अब चम-चम,
लगा बरसने पानी झम-झम!

लेकर अपने साथ दिवाली,
सरदी आई बड़ी निराली।
शाम सवेरे सरदी लगती,
पर स्वेटर से है वह भगती।

सर्दी जाती, गरमी आती,
रंग रंग के फूल खिलाती।
रंग-रँगीली होली आती,
सबके मन उमंग भर जाती।

रात और दिन हुए बराबर,
सोते लोग निकलकर बाहर।
सरदी बिलकुल नहीं सताती,
सरदी जाती गरमी आती।

Here we can see the difference in archetypal season of west and in indian seasonal grid like for west summer is time of romance while in indian season summer is consider as very harsh season, for west winter or rainy season is harsh while in india these both season consider as good for romance and harvesting and love. This all things we can see in this poem like here summer is consider as harsh while winter and rain is consider as good.

Thank you.


Wednesday 10 January 2018

The Medium

Don’t think I am a fool
My mind is a working tool
I can see the trap
And being you a crap
Use my vehicle to reach your goal
I am not your escaping hole
You are lucky to have my healthy silence
I used to kill people by my deadly silence
My life is not open invitation to you
You are not allowed to peep through
Angle face but devil you
Its better to say adieu.