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Saturday 9 December 2017

Tollund man critical appreciation points

[12/9, 8:25 PM] Pu Naila Aun: The tolluns man
A poem with ritual and political back ground
The bog people used to sacrifice there men to goddess of fertility
These were ritual ,religioys sacrifices so here the poem opens with few sentimental desires to go and visite the place by poet where the dead body of the man was preserved after been aquired or digged up from bog land
Brief adescription about the deadbody  for istance his last meal would be some grains or seed which were in a hard form in his stomach
He was naked except a cap  a noose and a belt
Here the story of his death being reveald by the noose a rope tide around his neck to hang him it might be the way to sacrifice someone for goddess
And then in the next quatrain poet describes the situation which probably faced by the man who was sacrificed and the goddes the she would have held him so tight , or embraced him and took him down in the marsh slush , so his body  juices made the whole land fertile
[12/9, 8:30 PM] Pu Naila Aun: The area which was used in the past for such sacrifices has been so much digged by the diggers that it looks like a honeycomb
As honey comb looks with so many holes in it , same the land looks coz people go there for digging  and hope to find some thing precious and during their work they find the body of a sacrificed man which is now have been put in the museum at Aarhus  Denmark
[12/9, 8:38 PM] Pu Naila Aun: As the tollund man was sacrificed to make all the otjer people happy and to end the sufferings of otjers so the people of north Ireland were sacrificeing the lives for there motherland
Here the poet tried to delineate his contemporary age
The age where he is present and the situation is so beatufully described the plight of the people ,acctually it happend in 1968 when a conflict arised among catholic or the nationalist and the other were puritans loyalist
So it took almost 30 long years to end up
Here our poet is describing the conflict and the people died during this period r highly appriciated by seamus coz he himself belonged to the catholics but he never participated
Here he is giving the depictions about the age
[12/9, 8:47 PM] Pu Naila Aun: First he tells us the story of bog culture , theur perception s about the land but his acctual aim is to ensure the reader that blood is always necessary to restore the fertility of motherland
Bog people dod that in their way in the past ,but now a days term r changed , and the sacrifices remaind the same
Tje people were sacrificed for ritual fulfilments but today its for some other reasons or may be they too r killed for the sectarian battle?
[12/9, 8:47 PM] Pu Naila Aun: Yup he was a writer but most of his work included in our syllabus gives us vived explaination of his noationalism or patriotism
[12/9, 8:48 PM] Pu Amaya Noor: Double loyalty he belong to Ireland and from his childhood observe the military exercise in the field.
From England he got all fame ...
Have sympathy for Ireland people but he can't protest as a Irish..in his poetry he depicts the effect  and  Violence on the Irish people..

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