I feel like an intelligent ape after reading Rabindranath Tagore’s
written stories. All his stories somehow links me to the modern society. World has
changed but the people of this world remained the same. They have not amended their thoughts. I
was out of thoughts for two days. Could not find any words or things to write. So
I planned to read few things. I started with Tagore’s stories which makes the
rust in my brain disintegrate. ‘একটি ক্ষুদ্র পুরাতন গল্প’ is a very intellectual story and, therefore, I could not understand what
the writer was trying to preach. He gave few comparisons between two birds but
what little I understood was that he was trying to explain a contradiction
between two living styles of human beings. One type lives in a harsh world and
another one lives in a soft world. But at the end they are all same; they fight
for their existence.
The story ‘খাতা’ seemed more attention-grabbing
to me. It was all about a little girl who loved to write. But her dream of
learning got shattered when her father made her to marry a guy, who much older
than her, at an age of nine. Her husband snatched her writing copy from her
when he discovered that she writes in the absence of him. She was never allowed
to write again.Though the
practice of child marriage is an old thing but it still occurs in our society. Mostly
the poor families are the victims of it. Girls get bestowed to their husbands
as they become a burden to their own family. They are sworn that they will be
given the opportunity to study at their in-laws house. But very soon they realize
that they were married not for love but as an unpaid maid who will do the house
works. And most of the times conceiving a baby at a very young age worsens the condition.
Girls are
often not given the liberty to live a life of their dreams. They are not
allowed to chase their goals. A handful families recognizes the importance of
education. All women cannot be like Gauri from the novel “The Lowland’ who
leaves everything behind to live her life. Women of our society don’t leave like
Gauri because they are afraid of losing everything they have got but in reality
they don’t realize that they haven’t earned anything in their life except disrepute.
This does not mean that women should leave their children and go for her own
life. It is possible to maintain a family and to do what they like. Only the
men of our society has to change.
John Keats was trying to express his
feelings to a bird in the ‘Ode to a Nightingale’. It is a very tough one for me
to understand but what I can infer is that the writer is tired of this world. He
wants to get lost in the darkness where he will be on his own. He wants fly
like the bird with it in to the dark jungles. And want to sit on a tree with it
in isolation. He is tired of being happy in others happiness. It makes his life
more miserable. The people of this world has no importance to him. But the
nature is something he feels unavoidable. He finds the life of the Nightingale more
inquisitive than his own life.
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