Now go and live in a place, pg 591
Brandon, Alyshia, Jonathan
Being scorned from love can bring about a pain like no other. Ghalib’s pain is expressed in his poem Now go and live in a place, where he more or less excommunicates love. Also based on the tone of the poem, this line projects a sense of anger and resentment. This can also be perceived by how someone may read aloud this poem. The speaker is speaking to another individual and orders that person to be on their own. From the poem line, you get a feeling that the person on the other end is not welcome in their home no longer. A house is something that is structured and provokes a feeling of togetherness, with respect to a family for instance. From this line, you can tell that a structure is broken, as well as a bond between two people. This is a contrast to both family and togetherness. The speaker also demands that the other person build something without a “gate” or a “wall.” A gate or a wall provides protection, and in this sense, the person speaking wishes that the other become hurt, exposing a weakness. In addition to being left hurt in some way, he wishes isolation upon the individual with the words, “with no neighbour to keep you company.” Analysis of this line, clearly projects anger and resentment.
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b.lo // Oct 23rd 2015 at 11:50 pm
It’s hard for me to imagine a life without any love. Even though many people are used to being alone or living alone, there is still a need for a certain amount of positive attention that we need to receive in order to survive. Ghalib’s pain is perfectly relatable and it’s great how the connection is made with family and home. Creation of warmth first starts from family, but without the help of family, there’s no place left internally to learn how to love.
al158379 // Oct 24th 2015 at 4:52 am
I really like your interpretation of this poem. It sounds as though the pain of love was too much to handle for the author and he just decided to forego love as a whole. This is something common for many people to do because love is hard and in order to not feel pain they decided to not feel at all. This bitterness can be projected onto others who might come to forego love as well. The author is telling the person to build the wall so he can keep out emotions to protect himself from the pain.
e.rospide // Oct 24th 2015 at 10:46 am
I really like your interpretation of the isolation that spoken about in this poem at the end. The author does come from a place of hate at the end of the poem. He wants whomever he’s addressing this poem to feel alone. To live in place where no one will remember you. I Also believe, that the person whom he’s addressing this poem to is forcing this isolation upon themselves. From the title “Now go and live in a place”, I think the individual wants to be alone, he’s just giving them “advice” in the most sarcastic way. Basically, If yo want to be alone, FINE!
e.rospide // Oct 24th 2015 at 10:47 am
I really like your interpretation of the isolation that spoken about in this poem at the end. The author does come from a place of hate at the end of the poem. He wants whomever he’s addressing this poem to feel alone. To live in place where no one will remember you. I Also believe, that the person whom he’s addressing this poem to is forcing this isolation upon themselves. From the title “Now go and live in a place”, I think the individual wants to be alone, he’s just giving them “advice” in the most sarcastic way. Basically, If you want to be alone, FINE!
NATALIA MALAVER // Oct 24th 2015 at 12:00 pm
I feel like we could all relate to this feeling. When one is depressed we dont like to speak with anyone or even eat. It doesn’t even have to be love, but just being upset with some aspects of life could really affect our well-being.
JMERLE // Oct 24th 2015 at 1:12 pm
Brandon, Alyshia, Jonathan ,
You make some very nice observations, but please note the problems with the paragraph form:
First, your topic sentence is clear (if the first sentence is, in fact, your topic sentence) but for the next few sentences you speak rather generally about the poem, and bring up other possible topics. Remember, in one paragraph, only develop one topic in one topic sentence, and stay with that topic for the entire paragraph. Also, I’m not exactly sure which, exactly, is the quotation you’re focusing on. It’s probably not that viable of a choice to choose the title. It seems you might want to choose the last quote you use (“with no neighbor . . . “) but if this is the case, you need to mention it much earlier. Look again at the paragraph form I gave you, okay?
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