2. Objectives
• Identify poetic devices and
sense images in poetry
• Gain better understanding
of human nature and
values through poetry
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4. Omar Khayyam
• (1048-1122)
• A Persian Mathematician, Philosopher, Astronomer and
poet.
• Reason why he wrote this masterpiece:
• His love of wine (a drink which drove sorrow from the
heart, as he composed his poetry) and his hedonism so
publicly demonstrated in his poetry was audacious for his
time.
•NISMDOHE
6. Edward FitzGerald
• (1809-1883)
• Translator
• An English poet and writer
• Made five editions of Omar Khayyam’s Rubaiyat
• First published in 1859
7. • Polygamy is
legal in Iran,
and men
can marry
up to four
wives. Once
married, a
girl can no
longer go to
high school.
• The married
age of girls
is currently
13, up from
9 years old
after the
Revolution.
Boy may
marry at 15,
the legal
age Iranians
can vote.
II. Culture of the Country
•MAGYLOPY
• If a girl in
Iran is
sexually
abused or
harassed,
blame
typically
falls on the
girl’s
mother, for
not
protecting
her
daughter,
much more
than on the
offender.
• They
believe in
AFTERLIFE
.
9. • Feast days involves drinking alcohol.
• We both consider heaven and hell.
• In Muslim culture they practice Polygamy.
• If we read the bible or reflect it with HIS presence we
would attain honor and happiness.
II. Comparison to Philippine Culture:
10. • History:
• Origin of the Species
• Natural Selection
III. Connection to the other Disciplines:
•EOPM
11. • 1. Human
ups and
downs
• 2. Failure
• 3. Success
• 4. Life
• 5. Death
IV. Features of this poem:
• Terms:
• 1.
Hedonism -
excessive
pleasure
• 2.
Cessation -
termination
• 3. Ethics
morality -
mora
philosophy
•OITNANIMTRE
12. A
masterpiece:
• The poet is obsessed in
finding his creator.
• Hedonism is
demonstrated in his
poetry which was
daring for his time.
13. • Normal: sometimes we
win and sometimes we
fail.
• Trying to find out the
source of unhappiness.
• But, we should learn to be
happy with what we have.
Humans ups and downs
14. • A proverb goes that “failure is
the pillar of success”. When
even we fail to achieve
something, we become
depressed and sad.
• But we should not turn back
from the struggling field of life
rather we need to learn from
our mistakes.
• Because if there is no failure
in life we may not be able to
feel the real gust of success.
Failure
15. • Success in an alluring
thing to all.
• Everyone wants to gain
success in life.
• A religious and honest life
leading can bring the real
success in our life.
Success
•CCSSSUE
16. • Success in an alluring
thing to all.
• Everyone wants to gain
success in life.
• A religious and honest life
leading can bring the real
success in our life.
Success
17. • Is a matter to be terminated.
So need to enjoy our life with
the fullest sense. We must
take the view of life honestly.
We need to enjoy the cup of
life sip by sip. When life
offers something to us we
should grab it. According to
the poet - “ take life and get
life”. We may not have any
second chance in our life.
Life
18. • “Yesterday This Day’s
Madness did prepare;
• Tomorrow’s Silence,
Triumph, or Despair:
• Drink! For you know not
whence you came, nor
why:
• Drink! For you know not
why you go, nor where.”
• (Verse no: 74)
Life
•EFIL
19. WINE
• Symbolizes the water of life.
• “And if the wine you drink, the Lip
you press;
• End in what All begins and ends
in Yes;
• Think then you are today what
yesterday you were;
• Tomorrow you shall not be less.”
• 43rd rubai
20. WINE
• Literary wine means alcohol but
the poet uses wine here as the
water of life which can take away
from their sorrowful memories. It
helps to forget people about their
misdeeds and failure of life. In the
verse number 6 the poet talks
about “Red wine”. In the 12th
verse he tells that a jug of wine, a
loaf of bread and his beloved
beside him can make his earthly
surrounding a paradise. Verse
22,26,45 are also about wine.
Wine is the chariot of life.
21. WINE
• “So when that Angel of the darker
Drink;
• At last shall find you by the river-
brink;
• And, offering his cup, invite your
Soul;
• Fourth to your Lips to quaff you
shall not shrink.”
• Verse no: 43
22. • Means the end of life. It is the
cessation of all biological
functions that sustain a living
organism. Before death comes
to our life we need to pray for
mercy to the almighty God who
created us. After our death
according to our works it will be
decided whether we will go to
heaven or to hell.
Death
•THEAD
23. • “As under cover of
departing Day;
• Slunk hunger-stricken
Ramazan away;
• Once more within the
Potter’s house alone;
• I stood, surrounded by the
Shapes of Clay.”
• Verse no: 82
Death
24. • Is a belief which means gaining
pleasure is the most important
thing in life. It is a way of living
and behaving in life that means
we get as much pleasure out of
life as possible. Ethical
hedonism is the idea that all
people have the right to do
everything in their power to
achieve the greatest amount of
pleasure possible to them. In
this poem, the poet message is
that we should take the
happiness of our life sip by sip.
Hedonism
25. • It is the fact or process of
ending or being brought to an
end. The termination of
something. According to the
poet, life is a short span of time
and it is a matter to be
terminated. So, in due time we
need to taste the nectar of life.
Cessation
26. • Moral principles that govern a
person behavior or the
conducting of an activity. Ethics
or moral philosophy is a branch
of philosophy that
systematizing, defending and
recommending concepts of
right and wrong conduct. In this
poem, the poet’s view is that
people should focus on the
moral aspect of life which can
pave the way of moral life.
Ethics Morality
27. • CARPE DIEM - means to seize the
day or capturing the moment and
make the best use of it because it will
never return. In this poem, verse
number 3,7,9,21,24,53 all are about
carpe diem. The poet wants to show
or prove that, we don’t know about
the future. So, in the present life, we
should focus on it. We should enjoy
every moment of life in a right way. It
is not wise to waste time in
unnecessary works.
V. Themes of the Poem
• CARPE DIEM
“Waste not your Hour, nor in the vain
pursuit;
Of This and That endeavor and
dispute;
Better be jocund with the fruitful
Grape;
Than sadden after none, or bitter,
Fruit.”
Verse no: 54
28. • NIHILISM - is the concept of
nothingness. There is no definite
chances of seeing tomorrow of our
life. We are actually nothing. In the
verse number 56. The poet mentions
“is” and “is-not” which is related with
the term “to be” or “not to be”. There
is no guaranty of our future and
tomorrow. At the end of the day we
may come to realize that we are
nothing.
V. Themes of the Poem
NIHILISM
“Said one among them Surely not in
vain;
My substance of the common Earth
was ta’en;
And to this Figure molded, to be
broke;
Or trampled back to shapeless Earth
again”.
Verse no: 84
29. • Persian POETRY
• Form of “rubai” (quatrains)
• Alliteration - repetition of initial sounds in
neighboring words
• 1. Awake! For Morning in the Bowl of Night
• 2. Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to
Flight:
• 3. And Lo! The Hunters of the East has
caught
• 4. The Sultan’s Turret in a Noose of Light
VI. Genre & Figure of Speech
Repetition -use of the same word(s) more
than once in close proximity within a verse.
25th rubai
• 1. Ah, make the most of what we yet may
spend;
• 2. Before we too into the Dust descend;
• 3. Dust into Dust, and under Dust to lie;
• 4. Sans Wine, sans Song, sans Singer, and
sans End!
30. • Extreme Contrast - dramatic juxtaposition of diametric opposites
• 8th rubai
• 1. Whether at Naishapur or Babylon,
• 2. Whether the Cup with sweet or bitter run,
• 3. The Wine of Life keeps oozing drop by drop,
• 4. The Leaves of Life keep falling one by one.
VI. Genre & Figure of Speech
31. Summary
• There are Gods accepted rules and regulations by choice,
we are going through a path either successor or failure.
Both require celebration. Getting drunk on a good path
make us certain about our future. We need to be righteous,
conserve our time efficiently and make ourselves do what
should be done. On the contrary, getting wasted on the
wrong path attracts temptation to create sin. Life is a gift of
God to us that’s why it will not be wise to abuse it.
