Hello Friends, This PPT is about the poem 'The Land of Nod'. Good Luck!

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3. The Land of Nod
From breakfast on through all the day
At home among my friends I stay,
But every night I go abroad
Afar into the land of Nod.
All by myself I have to go,
With none to tell me what to do —
All alone beside the streams
And up the mountain-sides of dreams.
The strangest things are there for me,
Both things to eat and things to see,
And many frightening sights abroad
Till morning in the land of Nod.
Try as I like to find the way,
I never can get back by day,
Nor can remember plain and clear
The curious music that I hear.
-BY ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

4. WHAT DID YOU UNDERSTAND BY THIS POEM?
This delightful little poem by Robert Louis
Stevenson plays upon the an expression that is still
in common use today. "The land of nod" is
frequently used to poke fun at those who appear to
be lacking the appropriate level of attention. To
Stevenson "The land of nod" was a frightening and
lonesome journey that all must be cast into, like
Cain, to wander through during restless nights of
sleep. He observes that in the morning after a
nightmare that like some "curious music" one can
rarely recall the chilling events that causes
apprehension on waking.

5. The Land of Nod is the imaginary realm to which
sleepers go. The first recorded use of the phrase to
mean, "sleep" comes from Jonathan Swift in
his Complete Collection of Polite and Ingenious
Conversation (1737). It’s derived from the Biblical
story of Cain. Nod was the place he went after he
was marked by God,for murdering his
brother Abel.During the 1800’s Eugene
Field personified the word through his children's
verse, [Wynken, Blynken, and Nod" and Herman
Melville in Moby Dick also refers to the land of nod
to describe Ismael going to sleep. The Dictionary of
Phrase and Fable written in 1898 says that :

6. To go to the land of Nod is to go to bed.
There are many similar puns, and more in
French than in English. Of course, the
reference is to Gen. iv. 16, “Cain went …
and dwelt in the land of Nod;” but where
the land of Nod is or was nobody knows.
In fact, “Nod” means
a vagrant or vagabond, and when Cain
was driven out he lived “a vagrant life,”
with no fixed abode, till he built his “city.”

7. Some Biblical scholars say that the traditional
refuge of Cain may be somewhere east of
Eden where met his wife. Which of course is a
movie aptly starring James Dean who plays the role
of a moody and rebellious son.As a verb nod means
to "to quickly bow the head" and has been
established as being a part of everyday language
around 1386. The origin is unknown origin but
probably an Old English word, perhaps related to
the Old High German word hnotonmeaning "to
shake," which was derived from the Proto-
Germanic khnudojanan.

8. Around the middle of the 18th century people
began to capitalize Nod and use as a noun for a bit
of wit for the place we go when we "sleep" because
of the noticeable comparison between nodding and
falling asleep. Once the land of nod became a cliché
for "sleep", people dropped it as a Biblical reference
and started to refer the Biblical Nod as 'the place to
which Cain was exiled' or 'the land God gave to
Cain.'