On the beach by Anne Ranasinghe
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This is a wonderful simple poem composed by Anne Ranasinghe, who was a jewish woman at birth and fled to UK to escape from Nazi persecution. She met a Sri Lankan professor there and they married and returned to Sri Lanka. AR had a tough time in her childhood days and she was naturally very much concerned about the violence, particularly of the Man's inhumanity to animals. This simple poem discusses about how a little puppy is tortured by three fun loving young boys at the beach. AR is very much moved by this dastardly insane behaviour of the three boys.
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On the beach by Anne Ranasinghe
- 2. Bhiksu University of Sri lanka, Anuradhapura. Department of Languages English Literature – Poetry Rev. Nivitigala Sumitta (Senior Lecturer in English 7/2/2014 sumitta2012@gmail.com 2
- 4. Neither the crash Of the morning waves Nor the sunlight singing of wind Can drown His yelps Three boys, one puppy A rope Torture on the beach. 7/2/2014 sumitta2012@gmail.com 4
- 5. His agony rips Dark holes in your eyes And helpless anger Twists in your hand as The rope nooses tighter The thin stick beats harder Then they throw sand 7/2/2014 sumitta2012@gmail.com 5
- 6. The sand fills his eyes The sand fills his nose The sand fills his ears
- 7. 7/2/2014 sumitta2012@gmail.com 7 And though your tears Taste salt in my mouth The alien years Have rotted my tongue Into immobility
- 8. 7/2/2014 sumitta2012@gmail.com 8 And people swim In the sunlit sea It’s an ordinary day
- 18. I hear a sudden cry of pain! There is a rabbit in a snare: Now I hear the cry again, But I cannot tell from where.
- 23. Sabbe tasanti dandassa sabbe bhayanti maccuno Attanam upamam katva na haneyya na ghataye
- 25. Sabbe tasanti dandassa sabbesam jivitam piyam Attanam upamam katva na haneyya na ghataye
- 28. 1. the practice of getting sexual pleasure from being physically hurt ------------------------------------- •compare SADISM (noun) •enjoyment from watching or making sb suffer •a need to hurt sb in order to get sexual pleasure ----------------------------------------
- 29. 2 the enjoyment of sth that most people would find unpleasant or painful • masochist (noun) • masochistic (adjective)
- 30. •Come prepared for a speech on “Man’s inhumanity to animals” (3 minutes) •Write an appreciation on the poem “On the beach” By Anne Ranasinghe