Feminism in Home burial with the example of the movie Talash

Topic: Feminism in Home burial with example of the movie ‘Talash’

Name of the paper: American Literature

Roll no: 07

Prepared by: Dipti Vaghela

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~ Introduction of Robert Frost

        He was born on 26^th march, 1874. He was poet and playwright. He was an American poet. He wrote many poems as under,

        ~ Stopping by woods

        ~ Design

        ~ The Gift outright

        ~ Mending Wall

        ~ Fire and Ice

        ~ The Home burial, etc.

        Thus these are some poems which written by Frost. So let’s know in detail about the poem ‘Home burial’.

~ Introduction of the poem ‘Home burial’

        In this poem, poet use free dialogue rather than rhyming scheme. He describe the dialogue between rural husband and wife whose child has recently died. We can find three tragedies in this poem as under,

 

        Somebody think that it is a poem about the love of mother to her child. A mother gives a child and takes with great care of it; but unfortunately after some days he dies. So the lady has lost her all hopes. Gradually she become very excited and sorrowful but her husband is very normal. He buries his child and does all activities very easily. He does not face any problem. According to him it the Natural and we have to accept it. So he is easy and normal but his wife can’t agree with him. And then crises come out in their relations. She can’t endure these things and so she takes preparation to leave home. But her husband tries his best to stop her departure. At last the wife leaves the house.

~ What is Feminism?

In feminism we found that women should have economic, political and social equality with men. Term feminism is refers to political movement and right to vote for woman. We found that not only woman but anyone can be feminists like men and women, girl and boy. This term also can be called as a feminist movement. This movement and feminists are demand men and women all are equal without any kind of boundary. Feminists appeal for equality and freedom for women. The feminist critic wants to explain gape the gender gap, men are superior to women. We found huge gender gap among man and woman. This movement is known women’s liberation movement, and woman’s right to vote.

The first feminist book was ‘A vindication of the right of women’ by Mary Wollstonecraft. The term feminism is adopted world widely and socially also. Feminism is “The theory of the political, economic, and social equality of the sexes. And another one is organized activity on behalf of women’s rights and interest. This term was first used in 1895.” (According to Merriam-Webster Dictionary) At some point feminism have not any ‘fundamental definition’, it is in very wilder sense. It draws attention to women’s issues in men mad society. In short reading of any kind of book with perspective of women is known as feministic reading of the book. (feminism in to the light house)

Now let’s we apply it in the poem ‘Home burial’

~ Feminism in the poem ‘Home burial’

        In this poem we can see the crises between husband and wife. And in between those dialogues we can see that how woman suppressed. Where is the house of woman? This point raise in this poem. Because of that quarrel why only wife leave that house why not man?  So we can say this point reflect here in this poem. First her husband tries to convince her by emotions but when he failed at that time he force to his wife. As under some lines from the poem,

‘If-you-do!’ She was opening the door

        Wider.

‘Where do you mean to go? First tell me

        That.

I’ll follow and bring you back by force. I

        Will-’ (Home Burial by Robert Frost: The poetry foundation)

 

So, from these last lines we can say that it is open ended poem. We can’t say that she leave her home. Because it is not mentioned here so we can’t say anything. We just imagine that perhaps this will happened, may be not sure. So we can say that we can find some feministic elements in this poem. Now let’s understand some other examples from society and movie.

~ Examples from movies

        This type of crises we can find in the movie ‘Talash’ as under,

        In this movie we can find this type of crises happened between husband and wife. And they fight because of the death of their child. But different is that in the poem we can see open ended. While in the movie end is different than the poem. In the end of the movie couple live happily while in the poem it is not mentioned. So we can say that the end of the both is different but crises are same in both (movie and poem).

~ Conclusion:

        Thus after all I want to say that the condition of woman remain same in our society. Whether it is in society, movie or poem. Everywhere we can see this type of suffering by women in the mail domain society. But point is that why woman accept it because it is like conditioning of mind which happened by birth in the mind of girl child. If we want to stop it so starting from self rather than any other person. So if first we accept it then we can say to other. There is one quote given by Nana bhai Bhatt as under,

        ‘Apane nay apanu kam bole’

It means work speaks lauder than words. So we have to practicle it.

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Works Cited

feminism in to the light house. 31 December 1969. 2015 <http:/www.megaessays.com/viewpaper/18497.html>.

Home Burial by Robert Frost: The poetry foundation. n.d. <http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/238120>.

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