Discussio of questions 12

Juno and ceres together blessed the newly engaged couple with honour, long life, happiness, riches, marriage blessings, unending joys.

Juno bestows her blessin on the couple, wishing them wealth and honour.

Ceres blesses them with wishes of prosperity. He also gives them the blessing, wishing them natural prosperity and plenty. Ceres is the roman goddess, she gives the blessing for the same reason as Juno, the fact that the marriage is gone through because of true love. She blessed them with abundant crops of the Earth and their barns and stores be never empty.

In William Shakespeare's romantic comedy, The Tempest, Prospero organises a masque for blessing the newly engaged couple, Ferdinand and Miranda. In the same, the spirits dressed up as Juno and Ceres come to bless the newly engaged couple.

Juno,the Queen of Gods blesses the couple with honour, riches and wishes that their marriage continues for a long time. She also wishes that "hourly joy increases" for the couple. She wishes that they have fair issues and heirs to the throne.

Ceres, the goddess of the earth and the patroness of agriculture blesses the couple with bounty. She wishes that there is abundance of crops in their kingdom and their barns and garners never go empty. She also says that their vines should be growing in great volumes and plants should bow down with the weight of fruits on them. Ceres further wishes at Spring comes to their kingdom at the end of the harvest season. She wishes that scarcity and want should never come to them. Winter should never come to their kingdom.

Both of them bless the couple with abundance and fertility, making their marriage a success.

Sirsha Gupta

Juno blessed the newly engaged couple with honour, riches,a happy married life, long life and much happiness and hours of joy be ever upon them and they should give birth to legitimate children who can be the heirs of the throne.

Ceres blessed the couple that they may have abundant crops of the earth, their barns and stores be never empty, their vines have clusters of grapes, plants bearing the weight of fruit, may spring come to them at the latest by the very end of harvest time because winter is full of hardships where there is no agriculture and scarcity only prevails and spring is the time of planting and cultivating new crops and may scarcity and want never come to them

In the play, "The Tempest" written by William Shakespeare, Ceres blesses the newly married couple, Miranda and Ferdinand with plenty of Earth's produce so that their barns would never be empty. He blesses them with vines laden with plenty of grapes and soon after the harvest season they will have "Spring" so that they would never experience the harshness of "Winter".

Juno blesses the couple with honour, riches, fair issues and ever-increasing happiness through out their life.

-Rajita Sadhukhan.

Juno blesses the newly engaged couple with a prosperous marriage, legitimate child,honour ,glory and long years of happily married life.

Ceres blesses the newly engaged couple with abundance of agriculture production which will never end with a fair weather. After each harvesting time in autumn, spring should be far away to avoid the cold ,barren winter. The "barns and garners never empty".

Shibangi Saha

Juno and Ceres together bless the couple, with Juno wishing them honor and riches, and Ceres wishing them natural prosperity and plenty. The spectacle awes Ferdinand and he says that he would like to live on the island forever, with Prospero as his father and Miranda as his wife.

How do Ceres and Juno bless the newly engaged couple?

2. What role does Ariel play in the final Act?

3. Do you think the end of the play is suitable for a Romantic Comedy? Give reasons for your answer.

1.How does Prospero prove, “the rarer action is in /virtue than in vengeance in the

final act of The Tempest?

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2. Give examples from the text to show Prospero's transformation in Act 5.

(the themes of revenge and reconciliation - After teaching a lesson to his enemies, he realises the importance of reconciliation.)

1. Prospero forgives his enemies....elaborate

he gives up his magic books and wand and renounces magic

He has no control over the spirits

asks Ariel to bring the enemies to him and he revokes the magic spell on them

he requests Alonso to forget the past

he also initiates the reunion between the father and son

Forgives Antonio and Sebastian in spite of their heinous crime and claims Milan back from Antonio

Caliban is forgiven for his conspiracy against his life..no severe punishment given to him

Comment on the ending line of the story.

Why do you think B. Wordsworth negated the story he earlier told the boy?

- he negated the story of the boy poet and the girl poet as well as that of the greatest poem

- he failed as a poet

-didn't want the boy to go through the same agony

- it is tragic that the belief he lived by all his life had to be forsaken at the end

- his voice broke at the end

- he knew there was no place for a poet in this world

- wanted to protect the boy from the same rejection

What according to you is the cause of this unusual friendship?

-yearned for companionship

-both shared common misery

- the boy had no one to look up to...came from an unhappy family with an angry mother..regularly beaten up...B Wordsworth exposed him to a poetic perspective of the world

-B Wordsworth too was lonely..rejected by the world

-both found a companion in each other.

How was B Wordsworth's house different?

..one room hut... trees surrounded the hut...centre of the lot..it is as if the house was in the middle of the wild...not in the city at all.. the big concrete houses in the street were not visible...it was a perfect setting for a poet who has been rejected by the world and who prefers seclusion

Referring closely to the short story, B. Wordsworth relate two important lessons

that the young narrator learnt from his friend, B. Wordsworth. How were these

lessons relevant?

1. he learns to build perspective...in comparison to the huge universe his problems are insignificant..beaten up by his mother he goes to B.Wordsworth who asks him to watch the stars, slowly the boy forgets his troubles

2.he learnt to look at the world like a poet..observed nature a lot

3. pin sinks...he was taught to learn from his experience in life

4. to enjoy life..do everything as if it was done for the first time..life becomes more exciting...an ordinary experience can be changed to extraordinay

What according to you may have been the cause of this unusual friendship?

1. Referring closely to the poem, We are the Music Makers, refer to any two

examples given by the poet which identify poets and singers as “movers and

shakers.”

Answers:

1.movers and shakers are those who has the power to transform. The artists of all kind are being addressed as movers and shakers.

2.change the society by their poems or composing songs...build up the cities and shape and fashion the glory of the empire through their stories.

3. through their songs or poems, they can give man liberty to dream at pleasure and gather the strength to conquer a crown.

4. The artists may not be actively working for the change but their creation has the power to change the old order and usher the new

3. " For....to birth"

In light of the above line, explain the role of the artists.

1. they can both create and destroy

2. each age has its own dream... the artists live those dreams and bring them to reality ...

3. however, with time those dreams change and new dreams are born

4. the artists have the power in them to destroy what they have created, deconstruct the existing form to build a new world, and a better and worthy future

5. ultimately it is art that conquers time and becomes immortal

6. the poet seems to favour the idea of Art for Life's sake..

2. Who are the "world-losers and world-forsakers"? Why are they so? How far do you agree?

1. Artists of various types

2. they live in their own creative world and are aloof --they do not chase the material pleasures of the world- they are not considered great achievers by the society --- the society doesn't hold a high regard for them so they are losers and forsakers.

3.No. they may be indifferent towards the material world but they have the power to transform it...they do not actively work but their ideas and thoughts can bring about the change by breaking the status quo.

They are not losers as they shape the glory of an empire and their work lives even after their death