And what shall their tired eyes see?
A scattered slovenly dream'
A shattered heavenly scheme:
And what shall their broken hearts feel?
Crush of an embracing gloom;
Press of an advancing doom'
And what shall their spent lives glean?
Whirlwinds of badness and madness'
Whirlpools of Death's final sadness;----------poem by SRI SRI, THE GREATEST POET OF TELUGU LANGUAGE. (POEM'S TITLE " THE DEFEATED". translated by srisri into english.
2007-06-30 07:26:58 · 8 answers · asked by geyamala 7 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Poetry
I like it, I see a beaten old man, whose life is almost over and in his life's battle he found defeat and wonders what it was for? like a world war veteran who thought he would fight the war to end all wars
2007-06-30 07:32:34 · answer #1 · answered by worldstiti 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The poem sounds gloomy and the person sounds defeated. The person sees death as an ending. I think such a gloomy outlook comes from a grandiose notion of our own importance.
our planet a grain of sand in the universe of time
how can our span be measured or our size
standing on this grain?
C.V.
2007-06-30 08:19:20 · answer #2 · answered by cavassi 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
At first, I was thinking, "You wrote this it's magnificent" then you gave the author. Thank you for sharing this. I loved it. I'll have to look up more of Sri Sri's work.
2007-06-30 07:37:05 · answer #3 · answered by Todd 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Makes me feel depressed and it reminds me of hoplessnes.
2007-06-30 07:34:47 · answer #4 · answered by Taylor G 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
sounds good
2007-06-30 07:31:52 · answer #5 · answered by free_mark53 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
its all right
2007-06-30 07:34:01 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
it is good
2007-06-30 07:35:11 · answer #7 · answered by jdog 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Crap.
2007-06-30 07:33:02 · answer #8 · answered by Hussein Obama 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋