पद्य आणि मृत्युविचार : भाग ५ – अ / ११

इंग्रजी काव्य :    भाग-५-अ :

शेक्सपियरचे ‘To be or not to be’ हें वाक्य प्रसिद्धच आहे ;  तसेंच, ज्यूलियस सीझर नाटकामधील, ‘You too Brutus ; then fall Ceasar’ हें वाक्यही तितकेंच प्रसिद्ध आहे. अशी, मृत्यूच्या प्रत्यक्षाप्रत्यक्ष उल्लेखाची  इंग्रजी नव्याजुन्या साहित्यातील बरीच उदाहरणें उद्धृत करतां  येतील.

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लॉर्ड टेनिसन याच्या ‘charge of the Light Brigade’ यातील या प्रत्ययकारी ओळी पहा –

Theirs not to make reply

Theirs not to reason why

Theirs but to do and die.

Into the valley  of Death

Rode the six hundred.

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टेनिसनच्या अन्य एका कवितेतील या परिणामकारक ओळी पहा –

Home they brought her warrior dead
She nor swooned, nor uttered cry
All her maidens, watching, said,
‘She must weep or she will die.’

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एडगर अॅलन पो :

The boundaries which divide

Life and Death are at best

Shadowy and vague.

Who shall say where the

one ends and where the

other begins ?

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आणि हें कांहीं इतर इंग्लिश कवींचें काव्यांश –

The Death-bed

… We thought her dying when she slept

And sleeping when she died.

• Thomas Hood

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After Death

… He did not love me living, but once dead

He pitied me ; and very sweet it is

To know he still is warm though I am cold.

• Christina Rossetti

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Shameful Death

He did not die in ther night,

He did not die in the day,

But in the morning twilight

His spirit pass’d away,

When neither sun nor moon was bright,

And the trees were merely grey.

• William Morris

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A Last Word

… Twine our torn hands ! O pray the earth unfold

Our life-stick hearts and turn them into dust.

• Erst Dawson

( यांचा संदर्भ :  # English Victorian Poetry : an Anthology – Paul Negri  # The Web )

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– सुभाष स. नाईक

Subhash S. Naik