Eliza Griswold ( born February 9, 1973 ) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist and poet. Griswold is currently a contributing writer to The New Yorker and a Distinguished Writer in Residence at New York University. She is the author of Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America, a 2018 New York Times Notable Book and a Times Critics’ Pick, for which she won the Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction and the Ridenhour Book Prize in 2019. Griswold was a fellow at the New America Foundation from 2008 to 2010 and won a 2010 Rome Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She is a former Nieman Fellow, a current Berggruen Fellow at Harvard Divinity School, and has been published in The New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine, and the New York Times Magazine. ( From Wikipedia’s Article) Steeds ( War Horses ) of Armageddon Against the Red background : ( Catastrophically destructive battle : like WW I & Ii , Final battle between the kings at end of the world : describedin New Testament ) Golden Chariot of Sun and 2 Horse Vector illustration, artwork Torched Eucalyptus groves : Massive Fire.Hills bursting in to flames: WoolseyFire inMalibu off Kanan Road “the people’s blood boiled through the skin. Ethiopia, land of burnt faces” ( Eliza Griswold )Bible age strong power speed jewish male fighter equine arm 2 stallion combat armor guard attack caesar white dust scene. Jew battl carry black hand drawn biblic story israel God retro sketch myth art : “In a boy’s rage , For a name , the myth of race begins.”( Eliza Griswold )
Ovid on Climate Change BY ELIZA GRISWOLD Bastard, the other boys teased him, till Phaethon unleashed the steeds of Armageddon. He couldn’t hold their reins. Driving the sun too close to earth, the boy withered rivers, torched Eucalyptus groves, until the hills burst into flame, and the people’s blood boiled through the skin. Ethiopia, land of burnt faces. In a boy’s rage for a name, the myth of race begins.
“Ovid On Climate Change”, By A Contemporary Poet Eliza Griswold is About how planet Earth is being affected by climate change, summoning the risingtemperatures of equatorial and sub-Saharan Africa. In Greek Mythology , Pheathon , a son of Helios ( identified with ancient Roman Sol ; He drove the Chariot of an ancient God – Sun , each day across the sky. ) ; killed whiletrying to drive his father’sChariot across the sky every morningand came too close to Earth. The sun, as suggested by Griswold , has got out of control and is burning the Planet Earth. : : : : The PROSE Given HERE In BELOW From poetryfoundation.org elucidate th mystery lucidlysurrounding the Climate Change. : : : : PROSE FROM POETRY MAGAZINE Q&A: Eliza Griswold BY ELIZA GRISWOLD Could you talk a little about the Ovid myth to which “Ovid on Climate Change” is alluding?
In his Metamorphoses, Ovid tells the story of a boy named Phaeton who is teased by other boys for being fatherless, a bastard. His mother, Clymene, tells Phaeton that his father is Apollo, the sun god. To be certain that his mother isn’t lying, Phaeton travels to visit Apollo’s palace, where the sun god swears by the river Styx that he will grant his son any wish in order to prove his love for him. Phaeton asks to drive his father’s chariot of the sun, which is driven by fiery horses so dangerous that Zeus himself won’t drive it. Fearing for his son’s life and the fate of the world, Apollo tries to convince Phaeton to ask for anything else, but Phaeton refuses.
So off goes Phaeton, who is quickly overpowered by the horses’ galloping force. He loses control of the chariot, which veers too far from the earth, causing a freeze; then it veers too close, drying up rivers, scorching the earth, burning cities, and causing the Ethiopians’ blood to boil through their skin, turning it black. In Greek, Ethiopia means “land of the burnt faces.” This myth is the source of the name. Eventually, in order to save the earth, Zeus had to knock Phaeton off the chariot and to his death. For days, Apollo, in mourning, left the world in darkness.
Some people consider climate change to be a liberal politician’s myth. By referencing classical mythology, does the poem support that perspective?
No. It certainly doesn’t intend to. Honestly, I think climate change deniers are very rare these days; even the world’s largest oil company, ExxonMobil, has grudgingly admitted that climate change is real.
The last sentence, “In a boy’s rage/for a name, the myth of race begins,” packs a lot of interesting but also potentially volatile suggestions. What is the poem claiming about race right here?
The poem turns to race because Ovid’s telling of the myth turns to race. Because I frequently work as a journalist in Africa, I am curious about the roots of the continent’s country names. Often they are left over from days before independence and reveal quite a lot about the power dynamics of imperialism. Like Ethiopia, Sudan means “land of the Blacks” in Arabic.
Imaginative metaphor seems crucial to “Ruins.” Yet in the case of the dead man in the Congo, the poem states, “The dead man looked like this. No, that.” Why the refusal of metaphoric description right here?
Because the dead man was real and so was the fact that he was missing an ear, which had been removed, probably by whoever killed him — either to be worn as a totem or to be eaten. With images like that, I’ve found metaphor to be unhelpful on the page, and also in my head, where images recur over which I have little control.
This practice was fairly common in the war in Eastern Congo some years ago. Consuming human flesh became a means to consume an enemy’s power. When I was reporting on this, I became concerned that by writing about contemporary cannibalism, I would be contributing to stupid old stereotypes about Africa as some kind of cannibal land. In researching the history, I found a couple of interesting facts. First, Christopher Columbus coined the term “cannibal” when he was writing about a certain ethnic group, probably the Caribes, who, a rival group told him, ate their enemies. Columbus used this tale as an argument for converting the rest of the world to Christianity. Also, during the colonial period, many Africans believed that the white colonists were cannibals because so many Africans never returned from working for them in the copper and gold mines. Because the colonists ate canned food, the one common African understanding was that the whites were chopping up the Africans into little pieces and sending them home in cans.
This is, in part, a poem about travel. Do you find a poet like Elizabeth Bishop to be helpful when you’re thinking through issues around travel in poetry? Or perhaps some other poet?
I love Elizabeth Bishop, but she’s too good a poet to be very helpful to me. I have been looking at her books lately, though, in terms of structure, to see how she moves from place to place to construct a book that is more than the sum of its individual poems. The other day, while looking at Geography III, I was wondering, why III? I tried to find I and II, but then a friend said that they are implied poems. Her books North & South and Questions of Travel embody those poems. I loved learning that, and it made perfect sense to the way I hope that I approach things with a wry twist. I find both James Fenton and Ryszard Kapuściński helpful in writing poems about observed horror. Both contain a kind of fury that I recognize, but that fury is useless if it comes off as scolding or moralistic. “Ruins” surprised me because I didn’t know how full of rage I was from some of the things that I’d seen until I wrote it. That’s why I kept the line, “Waking means being angry.”
The speaker does seem angry—and wounded, too. Anything you’d like to add about that?
Ha! Life is wounding. For all of us in different ways, I’d imagine. This speaker is trying to come to terms with how not to carry displaced rage into situations where it doesn’t belong; how to take that rage and integrate it into life so that it becomes generosity, wisdom, even love, rather than rage that helps no one. If you want the context of the poem, here it is: I’d just finished some rough work in the field and found myself at the American Academy in Rome for a year, which is one of the most remarkably beautiful places I’ve ever seen. It was a wonderful place to heal, but it was also at sharp odds with where I’d just been and what I’d seen. The incongruity was a bit tough at times to handle.
The nun in turquoise sneakers is an irresistible image. Where did it come from?
It came from a nun in turquoise sneakers who was facing a very long climb up a flight of stairs in the Roman neighborhood of Trastevere.
Are these actual Libyan proverbs in “Libyan Proverbs”?
Yes, they are actual Libyan proverbs, and they come from a little book I bought in a hotel gift shop in Tripoli, which was next to a book about Muammar Qaddafi called Is Qaddafi a Feminist? On the cover was a picture of Qaddafi flanked by his famous female bodyguards. These were the days before Qaddafi fell, and so books in Tripoli were propaganda. There was no free press.
These are mostly presented as a series of proverbs, or aphorisms, without commentary. Is there any implied critique of them—or, conversely, approval?
Do you mean of the things they say? Like do I endorse the fact that men who wear trousers made of dried grass shouldn’t sit by open flames? No, I don’t mean to critique or endorse them on an individual level like that.
“My belly before my children” is a surprising notion, especially for American readers in this day and age. It’s also highlighted since it appears last in the poem. Could you say more about this line and its placement?
I found this proverb to be very powerful, and to be a reflection on the nature of power under Qaddafi in Libya and tyrants elsewhere. The idea is that I feed myself before I feed my child. Or I take my country’s oil, get rich and fat, and leave my citizens to starve.
The poem almost moves into narrative in the four lines beginning “He howled before going mad,” before again reverting to proverb. What is go- ing on right here in the poem?
“He howled before going mad” is a proverb. I take it to mean, Pay Attention. That before something goes wrong, there is an indication that it’s going to do so. The poem is a narrative, I hope, but not nec- essarily one driven by an individual tale: this is the story of the nature of abusive power.
“Where the turban moves, there moves/the territory”: these lines are very evocative in both sound and sense. Could you say more about them?
The turban is a symbol of the leader’s strength. In this poem, these lines reflect Qaddafi’s brittle omnipotence and the eventual collapse of his regime.
Webcam the World : : Heather McHugh : : : : Get all of it. set up the shots at every angle; run them online 24-7. Get beautiful stuff (like scenery and greenery and style) and get the ugliness (like cruelty and quackery and rue). there’s nothing unastonishing – but get that, too. We have
to save it all, now that we can, and while. Do close-ups with electron microscopes and vaster pans with planetcams. it may be getting close to our last chance – how many
millipedes or elephants are left? How many minutes for mind-blinded men? Use every lens you can – get Dubliners in fisticuffs, the last Beijinger with an abacus, the boy in Addis Abada who feeds the starving dog. And don’t forget the cows
in neck-irons, when barns begin to burn. the rollickers at clubs, the frolickers at forage – take it all, the space you need: it’s curved. Let mileage be footage, let year be light. Get goggles for the hermitage, and shades for whorage. Don’t be boggled by totality: we’re here to save the world without exception. it will serve
as its own storage. — Heather McHugh : : From reflections.yale.edu : : For Educational Purposes only : : : : : :
“Webcam The World”,A Modern Contemporary Earth Poem By Heather Mchugh is About recording the world by videoing it on a computer , ” Say about climate change and the idea of the ‘last chance’ to see some species and societies of Human settlements before its documentation disappears. : : The set shots at every angle; run them online 24-7. Get beautiful stuff ( like scenery and greenery and style ) and get the ugliness ( like cruelty and quackery and rue). Everything is fascinating – nothing failstoastonish the speaker.” : : : :
Notes for each of the lines Pending visit this post again later on to enjoy the appreciation of the poem V Jayaraj Pune India February 23 , 2023 : : : : : : : :
World : : By A R Ammons ( 1926-2001 ) : : : : Breakers at high tide shoot spray over the jetty boulders that collects in shallow chips, depressions, evening the surface to run-off level: of these possible worlds of held water, most can’t outlast the interim tideless drought, so are clear, sterile, encased with salt: one in particular, though, a hole, providing depth with little surface, keeps water through the hottest day: a slime of green algae extends into that tiny sea, and animals tiny enough to be in a world there breed and dart and breathe and die: so we are here in this plant-created oxygen, drinking this sweet rain, consuming this green. — A.R.Ammons World ( 1964 Poem )
“World”, 1964 Poem By American Poet A R Ammons ( 126 – 2001 ) is About Our Place In The Nature’s Landscape Of Mother Earth wherein the algae and tiny creatures in the Sea create for the creatures from tiny one to Humans , the Oxygen for breathing; the green food for consuming and the Sweet Rain Water for drinking, thus providing thelifesustaining essentials so that the World here so to say in broader sense breed and dart andbreathe and die. : : : :
Notes for each of the lines Pending visit this post again later on to enjoy the appreciation of the poem V Jayaraj Pune India February 22 , 2023 : : : : : : : :
Judith Wright ( May 31, 1915 – June 25, 2000 ) Australian Environmentalist , Activist for Conservation , Anti War Movements, Of Sixties in 20 Th Century, and for plights of Aborigines, The rational World of Modern Economies , and disregard for environment and Aborigin people are talked about in her writings including her Poem here, ” Eve To Her Daughters”
Eve to her Daughters : : Judith Wright : : : : : : : :
It was not I who began it. Turned out into draughty caves, hungry so often, having to work for our bread, hearing the children whining, I was nevertheless not unhappy. Where Adam went I was fairly contented to go. I adapted myself to the punishment: it was my life.
But Adam, you know ….. ! He kept on brooding over the insult, over the trick They had played on us, over the scolding. He had discovered a flaw in himself and he had to make up for it.
Outside Eden the earth was imperfect, the seasons changed, the game was fleet-footed, he had to work for our living, and he didn’t like it. He even complained of my cooking (it was hard to compete with Heaven).
So he set to work. The earth must be made a new Eden with central heating, domesticated animals, mechanical harvesters, combustion engines, escalators, refrigerators, and modern means of communication and multiplied opportunities for safe investment and higher education for Abel and Cain and the rest of the family. You can see how his pride had been hurt.
In the process he had to unravel everything, because he believed that mechanism was the whole secret – he was always mechanical-minded. He got to the very inside of the whole machine exclaiming as he went, So that is how it works! And now that I know how it works, why, I must have invented it. As for God and the Other, they cannot be demonstrated, And what cannot be demonstrated doesn’t exist. You see, he had always been jealous.
Yes, he got to the centre where nothing at all can be demonstrated. And clearly he doesn’t exist; but he refuses to accept the conclusion. You see, he was always an egotist.
It was warmer than this in the cave; There was none of this fall-out. I would suggest, for the sake of the children, that it’s time you took over.
But you are my daughters, you inherit my own faults of character; you are submissive, following Adam even beyond existence. Faults of character have their own logic and it always works out. I observed this with Abel and Cain.
Perhaps the whole elaborate fable right from the beginning is meant to demonstrate this; perhaps it’s the whole secret. Perhaps nothing exists but our faults? At least they can be demonstrated.
But it’s useless to make such a suggestion to Adam. He has turned himself into God, who is faultless, and doesn’t exist.
“Eve To Her Daughters”, First published in The Other Half : Poems By Environmentalist Judith Wright , Sydney : Angus and Robertson, 1966 AnApocalypse Poem that is also an ‘Anti-War Poem’ and An ‘Earth Poem’, Also A ‘Feminist Poem’, is About Adam’s quest to become God-like, outlining his arrogance & About The Eve who is staying submissive and loyal despite his flaws. She is A Speaker of the poem who talks to her daughters , Of her and Adam’s Fall from Eden. : Whose fault in arogant pug head behaviour of Adam and in Submissiveness of Eve !? She has questioned. : : : :
“Eve to Her Daughters”,is a dramatic monologue which sees the Biblical Eve transported to a post-nuclear landscape where man has succeeded in destroying the Edenic paradise of the world as we know it. The word “fallout”: both the quarrel between husband and wife : Adam and Eve , and nuclear fallout fromthe war. : : : :
CAVE of TREASURE from the Book of Adam and Eve , ( brought here from Chat GPT ) : Windsor Mill Publishing : Copyright ( 2013 ) respected, Sir with a request to please allow it Here For Educational Purposes; It will be deleted if not allowed. : There are countless traditional paintings of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, depictions of them specifically living in a cave are less common in Western fine art. This concept stems from extra- canonical texts rather than the canonical Book ofGenesis. The idea of Adam and Eve residing in a cave comes from non-biblical works such as the Syriac Cave of Treasures and the Ethiopic Conflict of Adam and Eve with Satan. These texts describe God commanding the expelled first couple to live in a specific “Cave of Treasures” after leaving Eden, where they face struggles and temptations. Because this narrative is outside of the traditional biblical canon that inspired most prominent Renaissance and Old Master painters, fine art on the subject is rare. Life , 20,000 Years ago : How Humans slept in the Ice Age.
First Stanza : : “It was not I who began it. Turned out into draughty caves, hungry so often, having to work for our bread, hearing the children whining, I was nevertheless not unhappy. Where Adam went I was fairly contented to go. I adapted myself to the punishment: it was my life.”
Eve declares abut her life that it was not her “who began it.”: A remark of mulling over ( ચિંતન મનન ) the lifetime she lived with Adam when Adam was responsible for the origin of ills and evilness in the World. An end-result happened in their ill-fitting life was a living in to “draughty caves”( પવનનાં સપાટા મારતી ગૂફા ) which were not ‘airtight’,and hollowed out underground that received cold air leaked from outside where they experienced hunger and had to work for their bread. She whined about the unfair life hearing the children’s screeching noise ( તીણા / કર્કશ અવાજ / ચીસો પાડતા ઘોંઘાટ ) with tearful ( રોતલ ) face. However, Eve was “fairly content” tofollowAdam and adjusted to their punishment. Thus Eve poses in the beginning her, fairly happy and questionable submissive તાબે થયેલ / આજ્ઞાંકિત ) અભિગમ ) attitude.
Second Stanza : : “But Adam, you know ….. ! He kept on brooding over the insult, over the trick They had played on us, over the scolding. He had discovered a flaw in himself and he had to make up for it.”
About dividing line( વિભાજક રેખા ) between Adam and Eve ! A juxtaposition ( સમીપ ) that can lead to a contrast between Humans and God as well as Angels / demons. : Adam first started and continued to play a Godly figure in the Humanity ‘s insane quest ( ઉન્મત / અવિચારી ખોજ ) of changing the World in to A ‘New Eden’ but would have wandered from the correct path in which a “flaw ( અપૂર્ણતા / ખામી ) could be discovered and he had to make up for it.” : An undependable imperfections ( ન્યૂનતા ) in the object as well as in plans and activities adopted however the same should be great nonetheless. He had to be broody( ખિન્નતા ભર્યા વિચાર ) or seriously thoughtful to put everything in order or neaten up ( ઠાવકાઈથી સરસ રીતે વ્યવસ્થિત કરવા નું ) ( instead of continuously remaining resentful ( રીસ ચડાવવા ના બદલે / રોષે ભરાયાં વગર ) over the insult , trick or scolding .
Third Stanza : : ” Outside Eden the earth was imperfect, the seasons changed, the game was fleet-footed, he had to work for our living, and he didn’t like it. He even complained of my cooking (it was hard to compete with Heaven).”
About comparison of the Adam’s Earth and God’s Eden . Eden was perfect; Earth , imperfect because of change of seasons, Adam’s aversive feeling of hard working for living and his admonition about cooking by Eve found dissatisfactory by complaintive Adam. : “( It was hard to compete with Heaven).” said Eve.
Fourth Stanza : : ” So he set to work. The earth must be made a new Eden with central heating, domesticated animals, mechanical harvesters, combustion engines, escalators, refrigerators, and modern means of communication and multiplied opportunities for safe investment and higher education for Abel and Cain and the rest of the family. You can see how his pride had been hurt.”
About Adam’s Efforts in making New Eden.: ” So he ( Adam ) set to work , With cental heating, domesticated animals, mechanical harvesters, combustion engines, escalators, refrigerators, and modern means of communication and multiplied opportunities for safe investment and higher education for Abel and Cain and the rest of the family.” : Since then Humanity has never stopped for working without any rest and has brought All Kinds Of Comforts in All realms of life with praiseworthy glory. The Long Story of Mankind ‘s Success. : : : : : : The Third and Fourth Stanzas are About connecting Genesis / Biblical Past to the Modern -day Worldand explains how Adam’s pride was hurt because of constant vexationચીડ / ખીજવાટ / સંતાપ ) at their expelling from the Garden of Eden and the hardships to face everyday since their living in a Cave of Treasure.
Fifth Stanza : : In the process he had to unravel everything, because he believed that mechanism was the whole secret – he was always mechanical-minded. He got to the very inside of the whole machine exclaiming as he went, So that is how it works! And now that I know how it works, why, I must have invented it. As for God and the Other, they cannot be demonstrated, And what cannot be demonstrated doesn’t exist. You see, he had always been jealous.
About unraveling / ઉકેલલાવનારી ગૂંચ કાઢનાર( removing everything possibly from their tangled state of living a life with hardships ) , the unique crucial and demonstrable technical mechanism for inventing the machines that would aid in the Human Development and Comforts. : : : : : : : : “he was always mechanical-minded.” ( line 30 ) “He got to the very inside of the whole machine.” … “He started understanding how the machine works and then made more and more machines.” “As for God and the Other, they cannot be demonstrated, ( line 35 ) And “what cannot be demonstrated doesn’t exist.”: : The chase and an effort to overtakeGodlyProvidencein the aforesaid competition in making New Eden on the earth and searching for required knowledge to establish an uplifted Human Societywere the History of the Patriarchal society wherein Adam -like figure or a Grandfather -like figure always commanded as they were older or higher in rank. : : ” You see, he had always been jealous.” : Said Eve. Adam was self centred and always thought of himself. He didn’t bother of Eve and didn’t consider the needs of others. He was always watchful of creating Eden on the Earthand therefore was always in competition with Godly Providence in the Eden which posed him looked jealous. This was explained in the Sixth Stanza as Herein below. : : : :
Sixth Stanza : : Yes, he got to the centre where nothing at all can be demonstrated. And clearly he doesn’t exist; but he refuses to accept the conclusion. You see, he was always an egotist.” : : : :
Seventh Stanza : : “It was warmer than this in the cave; There was none of this fall-out. I would suggest, for the sake of the children, that it’s time you took over.”
Eighth Stanza : : “But you are my daughters, you inherit my own faults of character; you are submissive, following Adam even beyond existence. Faults of character have their own logic and it always works out. I observed this with Abel and Cain.” : : : : : : About Eves conversation now started from here. Eve said that in the cave, they had none of these fallouts that they now have, and life was simpler. Her daughters would inherit her flaws because they too tend to follow in the footsteps of their respective Adams they would meet and would be expected with submissive behaviour. Through Eve’s daughters Abel and Cain the generational inheritance of gender role , inherited traits, and the cycles in society could be explored. It should be for women to take over the world since the men might be failing due to their egotistical characteristics of having an inflated ideas of superiority over women and their own importance and and limitations of such manly behaviour.
Ninth Stanza : : ” Perhaps the whole elaborate fable right from the beginning is meant to demonstrate this; perhaps it’s the whole secret. Perhaps nothing exists but our faults? At least they can be demonstrated.”
Tenth Stanza : : “But it’s useless to make such a suggestion to Adam. He has turned himself into God, who is faultless, and doesn’t exist.”
AboutEve’s long thoughtful observations and calm intent consideration. The thinking that the entire fable has been presented to prove their faults and only their faults can be proven. Are the human faults could be an essence of existence or the core secret of life? Such suggestion and finding would perhaps be inevitably futile to Adam -like figures who have already proclaimed Godlike and posed himself beyond flaws. Adam would deny the existence of his own imperfections and the limitations of patriarchate nature of societal norms and tracing through the male line.
Judith Wright’sEarth Poem, ” Eve’s Daughters” depictsman’s destructive nature and the Earth in pursuit of God-like perfection in Eden. In his arrogance, man has yet not proved himself as the creator, What he strives to create for Earth to be a paradise ultimately not desirable. Wright’s poem is Eve’s manifesto to Feminists Not To be “Submissive” to Adam. The Scientific Advancements and the Mechanisation of Society would be far from The Human Faith and A Wider Target Requiring Caution !
A post-apocalyptic Eve warns her daughters about the dangers of male arrogance, scientific hubris, and submission. The poem critiques modern society by reinterpreting the biblical story, portraying Eve as a figure of wisdom who blames Adam for their fall and encourages her daughters to seek balance beyond male-driven scientific and materialist advancement.
White bearded God created the first humans : Adam and Eve , in the Garden of Eden filled with beautiful flowers, tall trees, and friendly animals.. God gave them one rule: not to eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. They would obey God’s rule. : A sly serpent tempted Eve to eat the forbidden fruit, telling her that if she ate the fruit from the Tree of Knowledge, she would become wise, just like God. Eve ate the fruit and gave it to Adam, who also ate it, leading to their disobedience. Suddenly, Adam and Eve felt very different. They realized that they were both naked and felt ashamed. God saw that they were hiding and asked why they were afraid. : This act, known as the “fall of man,” resulted in them being expelled from the Garden of Eden and brought consequences like hardship, pain, and death to humanity. God banished them from Eden, introducing hardship and mortality to the world, but also promising a future Redeemer, forming the basis for the Christian doctrine of Original Sin. Before Adam and Eve left paradise, God placed a special angel with a flaming sword at the entrance to the Garden of Eden. This angel was left to guard the Tree of Life, which had the power to grant eternal life. : Even though Adam and Eve could never return to the Garden of Eden, God’s love and protection would always be with them. Their story teaches us that breaking the rules has consequences .Yet it reminds us that even when we make mistakes, we know that God’s love will always be there to help and guide us. : Their children, the first of whom were Cain and Abel whose story is presented as the origin of humanity and the source of sin and death. Adam and Eve realising their nakedness after they ate the fruit forbidden by God.
Eve is traditionally blamed for the “fall”. But Judith Wright’s Eve is not to blame, but rather a victim of Adam’s desire to “unravel everything” and become God-like. This shifts the responsibility for the world’s destruction away from Eve and onto male ego and scientific hubris( overbearing pride and presumption ) that might lead him to take risky decisions which ultimately harm the people of all nationality of the World.
The poem uses the biblical “fall” and the resulting “fallout” as a metaphor for modern environmental and social destruction caused by scientific advancement. Eve’s conversation is a warning to her daughters to not be submissive to men who have become so engrossed in mechanical, rational thought that they believe they have invented everything and that anything that cannot be “demonstrated” doesn’t exist.
Eve encourages her daughters to take over and help men see that God can still exist in a world driven by science. The poem suggests that while women may have inherited their own “faults” from Eve, they must be the ones to lead the way in finding a more balanced and spiritual (!?) existence, one that doesn’t disregard the intangible and the spiritual in favor of tangible, demonstrable facts.
The poem uses Adam as a metonym for modern Western society ( પશ્વિમ નો વિપર્યય ) especially Australia, which Wright suggests has become prideful in its belief that its ideals and methods are superior. By extending the story of the fall to a modern, post-nuclear landscape, Wright directly criticizes the “Western foundations” that have led to destruction and environmental disregard. One may lead the same thoughtful observations in view of India.
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A submissive woman being spanked on her bare buttocks by a dominant man. Illustration by N. Carman (1931)
Female submission or femsub is an activity or relationship in which a woman submits to the direction of a partner or has her body used for the ( sexual pleasure ) of her partner. Submissiveness in healthy relationships is mutual with empowering choice. ( Both partners respect, uplift, and serve each other; A woman uses strength and wisdom for influence. : it’s not about one person being superior whereas in unhealthy ones, it’s a symptom of control and imbalance. ) An Unhealthy submissiveness means forced compliance, silencing needs, and vulnerability, often rooted in fear or coercion, leading to one-sided sacrifice and potential exploitation where a partner’s happiness is prioritised by both. Healthy Submissiveness means Empowerment : It is strength under control, a wise choice to yield, not weakness, allowing influence through gentleness and peace. Both partners respect, uplift, and serve each other. A woman trusts her partner to lead, finding security in his strength, allowing her to explore vulnerability. An importance is recognised in communicating needs, and willing compromise, not just silence or suffering.An Unhealthy Submissivenessof Forced Compliance ( lacking genuine choice ) leads to decision-making dominance by one partner And it Involves sacrificing personal needs, values, and thoughts due to fear or pressure. All these lead a woman to more vulnerable to exploitation, as she may ignore discomfort or danger. Key Distinctions & Perspectives . submissiveness is a learned behavior from societal norms ( like Victorian ideals ) or In some religious views, it’s seen as a spiritual choice to honor a husband, requiring trust in God and yielding authority. At times, the women find fulfillment in yielding, seeking a strong partner to provide structure, safety, and direction. Biblical submission in marriage is a wife with the strength of character making a choice not to overtly resist her husband’s will. She can disagree with him or she can express her opinion. : A Submissive woman remaining still won’t look at her partner especially when being stared at. The Gestures can go so far as to include kneeling or bowing. In Bible, Sarah , Abraham’s wife has been iconized as the example of a godly, submissive wife, especially in the face of abusive behavior. Abigail’s actions in 1 Samuel 25, we see that her motivation was to show respect and submission to her husband while also fulfilling the role ; more about harmony, compromise, or even a deep sense of care. Many times, She submits for the same reason a man submits: attraction, love, desire.
The poem uses a free verse, storytelling effect to convey its message clearly. It moves fluidly through the narrative, highlighting Adam’s prideful and egoistic character in a way that invites the reader to reflect on their own social and cultural context. Let us know Dear Reader Your Perspectives in this.. . : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : Eve to Her Daughters By Judith Wright : : Earth Poems : Poem Analysis and Appreciation Presented By V Jayaraj Pune India February 21 , 2023 : : Updated November 30, 2025 : : On Achieving the Fifth Anniversaryof his Art Blog Madhu Malti.
Fire and Ice BY ROBERT FROST 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.
“Fire and Ice”, A short 9 Lines Poem By Robert Frost is About the End Of World holding a favouring Fire for one time destruction and in case of twice , by ice in sufficient quantity , great for destruction. fire suggests rage, war, passion; ice suggests cold indifference and passivity. We will try to show how meaningfully these imaginaries could enact to the events of destruction of the world and perhaps of the perishable Earth. : : : : Pending visit this post again later on to enjoy the appreciation of the poem V Jayaraj Pune India February 20 , 2023. : : : : : :
Voices Of Earth : : by Archibald Lampman : : We have not heard the music of the spheres, The song of star to star, but there are sounds More deep than human joy and human tears, That Nature uses in her common rounds; 4 The fall of streams, the cry of winds that strain 5 The oak, the roaring of the sea’s surge, might 6 Of thunder breaking afar off, or rain7 That falls by minutes in the summer night.8 These are the voices of earth’s secret soul, 9 Uttering the mystery from which she came. To him who hears them grief beyond control, 11 Or joy inscrutable without a name, 12 Wakes in his heart thoughts bedded there, impearled, 13 Before the birth and making of the world. 14
— Archibald Lampman
“Voices Of Earth”, A 14 lines Earth Poem By Canada’s Keats ArchibaldLampman( 1861-99 ) is About “The voices of ‘earth’s secret soul, Uttering the mystery from which she came.” ( lines 9 & 10 ) state this observation as seen and deeply thought about , the enumeration of which have been itemized in the lines 1 To 8 of the poem. : : We have not heard the music of the spheres, 1 The song of star to star, but there are sounds 2 More deep than human joy and human tears,3 That Nature uses in her common rounds; 4 The fall of streams, the cry of winds that strain 5 The oak, the roaring of the sea’s surge, might 6 Of thunder breaking afar off, or rain 7 That falls by minutes in the summer night. 8 “The Song Of Star To Star”is the music of the spheres,” which we have not heard” ( lines 1 & 2 ) : : The Speaker admits.
The Physics started with the Scientific studies of celestial bodies and the Universe as Whole from the historic time that predates the last two millennium; and called it Uranology Or Astronomy. Prior to this it was belived thatthe planets and the fixed stars were making music , for which the thinkers thought about deep worshipping; and imagined God’s perfection that was copied by the stars as it appeared to them. What they knew was joy and tears experienced by them . So they imagined that the musical Sound which they did not hear was much more deeper than their possible experiences in joys and tears that “Nature” before them ₹uses in her common rounds.” ( line 4 ) : :
Further Notes Pending visit this post again later on to enjoy the appreciation of the poem V Jayaraj Pune India February 19 , 2023 : : : : : : : :
Mother of all the high-strung poets and singers departed, Mother of all the grass that weaves over their graves the glory of the field, Mother of all the manifold forms of life, deep-bosomed, patient, impassive, Silent brooder and nurse of lyrical joys and sorrows! Out of thee, yea, surely out of the fertile depth below thy breast, Issued in some strange way, thou lying motionless, voiceless, All these songs of nature, rhythmical, passionate, yearning, Coming in music from earth, but not unto earth returning.
Dust are the blood-red hearts that beat in time to these measures, Thou hast taken them back to thyself, secretly, irresistibly Drawing the crimson currents of life down, down, down Deep into thy bosom again, as a river is lost in the sand. But the souls of the singers have entered into the songs that revealed them, – Passionate songs, immortal songs of joy and grief and love and longing: Floating from heart to heart of thy children, they echo above thee: Do they not utter thy heart, the voices of those that love thee?
Long hadst thou lain like a queen transformed by some old enchantment Into an alien shape, mysterious, beautiful, speechless, Knowing not who thou wert, till the touch of thy Lord and Lover Working within thee awakened the man-child to breathe thy secret. All of thy flowers and birds and forests and flowing waters Are but enchanted forms to embody the life of the spirit; Thou thyself, earth-mother, in mountain and meadow and ocean, Holdest the poem of God, eternal thought and emotion.
— Henry Van Dyke
“Mother Earth”, An Earth Poem By Henry Van Dyke (1852-1933) is Abouttribute to the planet Earth given by a clergyman. : : The earth is beautiful creationof God in Natureandgenerous for which the Poet has praised. The earth as a mother of everything and of all humans which sustainseverythingwith itsrichness and fertility. : : : :
Notes for each of the 3 Stanzas Pending visit this post again later on to enjoy the appreciation of the poem V Jayaraj Pune India February 18 , 2023 : : : : : : : : :
EARTH, MY LIKENESS : : ( 1891 – 1892 ) Leaves Of Grass : : Walt Whitman : : : :
EARTH, my likeness, 1 Though you look so impassive, ample and spheric there, 2 I now suspect that is not all;3 I now suspect there is something fierce in you eligible to burst forth, 4 For an athlete is enamour’d of me, and I of him, 5 But toward him there is something fierce and terrible in me eligi- ble to burst forth, 6 I dare not tell it in words, not evenin thesesongs. 7
” Earth , My Likeness” , An Earth Poem By Walt Whitman ( 1819 – 1892 ) is Aboutthe longing of a heartfelt perception of mystified love marked by “something fierce and terrible which can burst forth” ; and that is commonly shared in between , between the Speaker as well as his athlet admirer who is enamoured of him , in the same way he too is of his admirer. Whitman has found this athlete from his curious observations with qualities like, “impassive” remoteness that is , rarely showing emotions ; beside “spheric”, Meaning, with fullness of a tone of voice in his wordiness ; and”ample”, that is , magnanimous ( big heartedor generous inunderstanding ) toward others. And “he suspects that is not all.” Which is then clarified by him ; that is what he says,” there is something fierce in you eligible to burst forth,” 4: : Only one of the many athletic admirers for whom he feels a similar “fierce and terrible” ‘fascinations’ and would appreciate the similar level of comparison : The poet and earth are so much closely connected that they all together inferr thesame level of noesis and warmth.Whitman writes with his fears,“I dare not tell it in words, not even in these songs.” 7 : : ” Earth, My likeness ” was Published as “Calamus” number 36 in the third (1860) edition of Leaves of Grass, which was then changed to “Earth, My Likeness” : : Thus , Whitman honestly describes his own fascinations for a person whom he likes for ample of similarities and an understanding in betweenthem. Yet, in the end line Whitman becomes suddenly concerned of describing the soft side in their likenessfor each other and in his reflected feelings he has attemptedto admit. : : : :
“Earth, My Likeness”, An Earth Poem By Walt Whitman, Information Appreciation and poem Analysis Presented by V Jayaraj Pune India February 17 , 2023 : : : : : : : :
Move Eastward, Happy Earth : : : : : : : By Alfred Lord Tennyson : : : : : : : Move eastward, happy earth, and leave Yon orange sunset waning slow: From fringes of the faded eve, O, happy planet, eastward go: Till over thy dark shoulder glow Thy silver sister world, and rise To glass herself in dewey eyes That watch me from the glen below.
Ah, bear me with thee, lightly borne, Dip forward under starry light, And move me to my marriage-morn, And round again to happy night.
— Alfred Lord Tennysonv
“Move Eastward, Happy Earth” , A Earth Poem By AlfredLord Tennyson is About the Planet Earth as well as Our Orange Sunset , Waning Sun from the fringes of the faded Evening.
Me, the earth You see my beautiful face The beautiful sky and greeneries Lovely flowers and sweet chirping birds
You dig Dig and build Your sky rise
You burn Burn my woods You cut Cut my forest
You stop Stop my flow of rivers
The exhausts of your vehicles The shoots of your industries The toxins Of your weapons Pollute My water and air My children Animals and birds Forest and flowers Die of exhaustion
I cry Cry of pain Cry of anguish Cry out of anger Boil and boil, under My crust
I heave hard Boil anger Shake and shake I want to bring down Your sky rise Crush them to ground I become angry Really angry I shake your prides Crush your vanity Raze them to ground Then I sigh of relief And become normal Once again I engage in my creation.
— Bharati Nayak
“Earthquake” An Earthquake Poem By Bharti Nayak is About an Earth’s reactions to the thoughtlessness shown by exploitations In Nature by the worldwide Population. As in her own words ,” This exploitation of Earth’s resources has been causing irreparable damage to the earth.Though man is aware of the danger heis not taking necessary corrective measure for protection of earth.” ( Bharti Nayak in poemhunter dated 29 August 2016. ) : :
The Mother Earth’s Fury and revenge has been expressed in the powerful lines , : : : : “I heave hard Boil anger Shake and shake I want to bring down Your sky rise Crush them to ground I become angry Really angry I shake your prides Crush your vanity Raze them to ground”
The devastating activities by the population include, digging and building , Stopping the flow of the rivers, cutting of the forests and burning woods ,polluting the water and Air with the exhausts of the vehicles and shooting of the industries and most unnecessarily used weapons. As a result , “children Animals and birds Forest and flowers Die of exhaustion”
Man doesn’t see “the beautiful face of earth ,The beautiful sky and greeneries , Lovely flowers and Sweet chirping birds.” Every life on the earth has its own right to live, flourish, and continue forever on this earth.The same has been jeopardized by the hazardous activities of humans. The selfish human nature put everything on this earth at risk by their ventures , adventures anddesperate menace. The earth crying of pain , anguish and anger , boils under her crust shakes and bring them an earthquake of large scale of intensity and devastating scales of destructions before it sighs of relief and becomes normal again to engage every living being in her ideas for creations. : : : :
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