Summary of 'To The Evening Star' by Blake

To The Evening Star (Summary)

                                                                                                                                                                -William Blake

‘To the evening star’ is a sonnet by a romantic poet Willam Blake (1757-1827). It is an address to Venus, the Roman goddess of love, beauty and fertility. The poet or the speaker in this poem is calling upon ‘Her’ to protect all of us against the evils of night and more importantly, inspire the oppressed force of day time.

Blake describes ‘Her’ capacity throughout the sonnet. He addresses ‘Her’ as a ‘fair-haired angel of the evening’ who can light torch of love brightly at night to remove darkness and can put on glowing crown and smile upon the evening bed of humankind. He further says that the goddess Venus makes the fine morning and scatters the silver dew on every flower that shuts its silver eyes having timely sleep. Finally, he maintains that the wolf rages and the lion glares at night in darkness which are the emblems of evils; therefore, he requests to protect all the humankind against them covering by its sacred dew as done by the warm clothes.

Blake also hints at the pastoral simplicity as he finds the goddess’ inferiority and potential impotent to protect her own creation; therefore, he shows wonder in a final line of his sonnet. The second thing that can be considered is political entrapment as the goddess holds the power to put an end to all of the daytime’s rules. (change the colour of the sky, put the flowers to sleep). And lastly, the thing under consideration is sexual desire. The speaker is looking upon any excuse and any blessing to act upon his premitive desire to mate with the opposite sex. Anyway it is highly a symbolic poem which describes the goddess, Venus’ ability and at the same time the poet asks ‘Her’ to protect us from evil.

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Sudesh Panta

Sudesh panta is an emerging gajal writer. His all gajals speak the truth with bitter reality. They are gripping and always promise for a thundorous applause. I guess the mere words are insufficient to describe. As an instance, here comes his creation:

दरिद्र छ स्वर्णमह्ल मा बसी सुधा पिए पनि
दुखी छ सुबिधा भोगी आरामसँग जिए पनि

संवेदनाशून्य भएपछी कटु हुन्छन् अनुभूति
मतलब नै राख्दैन सयौँ जीवन खिए पनि

दिंदा पाउने आनन्दको अनुभूती नभएर हुन सक्छ
अग्नी निभेको छैन अझै संसार नै लिए पनि
 

दिन गाह्रो हुँदो रैछ यहाँ लिने बानी परेपछि
सन्तुष्टी मिल्दैन होला कुबेरले सबै दिए पनि

Importance of Raksha Bandan

रक्षावन्धन वा जनैपूर्णिमाको महत्व

                                      By: Bhola Nath Bhandari

हिन्दु दर्शनअनुसार जनैलाई 'ब्रहृमासूत्र' अर्थात् ज्ञानको धागो पनि भनिन्छ । जनैका दुई शिखामध्ये एउटा शिखामा रहेका तीन डोरालाई ब्रहृमा, विष्णु र महेश्वर तथा अर्को शिखाको डोरालाई कर्म, उपासना र ज्ञानका तीन योग मानिन्छ ।यसै दिन ब्राह्मणद्वारा विधिपूर्वक मन्त्रण गरिएको यज्ञोपवित धारण गरिन्छ ।यसैगरी यसै दिन देह शुद्ध गरी देवता, सप्तऋषि तथा पितृको नाममा तिल, कुशसहित तर्पण गरिने भएकाले यस पर्वलाई 'ऋषितर्पणी'का नामले पनि चिनिन्छ । यस दिन सप्तऋषि कश्यप, अत्रि, भारद्वाज, गौतम, जमदग्नि, वशिष्ठ र विश्वामित्रलाई तर्पण दिइन्छ ।तर्राई क्षेत्रमा रक्षाबन्धनलाई दिदीबहिनी र दाजुभाइको आपसी मायाको चाडका रूपमा पनि लिइन्छ
यही दिन एघारथरीका गेडागुडी मिर्साई भिजाएर टुसा उम्रेपछि क्वाँटी बनाई खाने चलन छ । यसरी तयार गरिएको क्वाँटी खानाले शरीरमा रोग नलाग्ने, पेट सफा हुने र वर्षाका कारण चिसो भएको मौसममा शरीरमा तापसञ्चार हुने विश्वास गरिन्छ ।
जय शम्भो !!!!!!!!!!!