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USES OF ADVERSITY
Contextual Words and Meaning
About the Poet
This poem is
written by Anonymous, as the name of the poet “Uses of Adversity” is not known
to us. But this is a Moorish poetry and poet is encouraging his fellows doe hardships,
which they are facing. This shows that the era in which this poem was written,
is an era of rebellion.
About the Poem
The poem has
connotative type of meanings. The poem is encouraging and counseling someone and
trying to change the pessimistic attitude to optimistic one. The denotative
meaning of the title and the imagery of
the poem are different. The poet uses the poet uses the techniques of symbolism
and metaphor to express his theme. The simple language and tone of poet in the
poem reflect wisdom and firm determination of the poet. The poet seems to be
the person of knowledge and intelligence. The way he relates the manuscript and
the lantern to the revolutionary struggle, is a symbolic one.
The phrase, “cutting
the reeds”, “trimming of the pen” and “wick is cut” are
metaphors, which symbolize the hardships faced in the time of struggle. The
poet through metaphors, tried to convey his message that all struggles are part
of life and these struggle make people bold.
Summary
The surface meaning
of the poem is that the writing in a hand written document, improve more if the
reed or the wooden pen, is cut perfectly. The message written will be more impressive,
if the nib of the pen is trimmed properly. Further more the lantern will burn
more bright, if the wick is cut as the shine and brightness of the light will
increase when the wick is short. The actual hidden meaning of the poem is that
all the revolutions and struggles will be successful, if the people face the hardships
and be consistent in their work. Furthermore a small number of persons can do
what that million can not do.
In this poem,
wick is cut; pen is trimmed means one has to face troubles to face success.
Learning makes a man more knowledgeable and through this a man become sharper
than a sword. Swords are the weapons of battlefields, while pen is the
strongest weapon through which people write impressive writings for their cause
and rights.
The cutting of
a wick makes wick short. Here poet wants to say that may be the opponent try to
reduce your power by reducing your companions but you should keep in mind that
a short wick gives more luster and brightness.
Important Questions And Answers
Q1: What does Anonymous means?
Ans. The word ‘Anonymous’ means that the name of poet is not known.
Q2: What is the message of the poem,
“Uses of Adversity”?
Ans. Adversity appeared to be the hard time for the people but in fact
it makes people more learned and experienced. It teaches a person how to behave
in time of difficulty. It also teaches the way of dealing with the problem,
with patient and wisdom.
Q3: How does the poet gives the message
of uses of adversity through the example ‘a pen made from dried reed’?
Ans. The poet gives an example of a pen made from a dried reed, this pen
writes more fair when its nib is cut perfectly. The poet tries to explain that
difficulties and problems actually sharpens our wit and increase our patience to
deal with them. Problems always teach us some lesson We should keep this fact
in our minds.
Q4: What two examples does the poet
give for describing the uses of Adversity?
Ans. The poet gives two examples for describing the uses of Adversity.
1.
The
pen made from dried reed, writes better when it is trimmed time to time.
2.
The
brightness of the lantern increases, if the wick is cut and shortened.
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