XII STD MONEY BY WILLIAM DAVIES: AN ANALYSIS OF POEM, FIGURE OF SPEECH AND ACTIVITIES.,

MONEY BY WILLIAM DAVIES: AN ANALYSIS OF POEM, FIGURE OF SPEECH AND ACTIVITIES.

CLICK HERE FOR ACTIVITIES BASED ON UNIT 2.6 MONEY

click here to get PPT on unit 2.6 Money
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hN8QWe7h03SEUflmAGjupc-PdZxqtom0/view?usp=sharing

Theme of the poem:   
This poem indicates the determination of a poet who wants to be poor to seek eternal pleasure of life. Importance of money can be realized in poor economical condition only. The Friends rich by heart are better than rich by money. Materialistic pleasure vanishes in the flow of time but eternal pleasure remains as it is.    

1.     Money can’t give you eternal happiness.     

2.     Poor people laugh freely with their little earning and few friends.     

3.     In richness, a lot of friends of poet remained false and untrue but in poverty friends were few but true.

Stanza-wise Summary of the poem:

1^st Stanza :

 Poet confesses that when his life was enriched with money, he was far away from the eternal joy and true happiness. So poet wants to be poor to receive the real pleasure of life. In richness, poet had a lot of friends who always used to meet with him.

2nd Stanza:

While leading a life of richness, the life of poet was abounded with many restrictions and etiquette. So poet compared his life with a boy having a strong desire to blow trumpet but due to the circumference and manner he can’t do it. According to the poet, a true feeling of happiness is buried under the false status of richness. Now being poor, poet wants to lead the happy life. Poet doesn’t want to utter any words about his condition to the world because the world is under the influence of false thinking of happiness. According to the norms of world happiness can be bought by money, richness is directly compared with happiness which remained untrue according poet.

3rd Stanza:

Poet has observed and learned the aspect of life minutely. He observed that heart of poor person is more delighted and contented though earn little penny each day. Poet by heart, is impressed by the little activity of poor person which are full of happiness and apart from rich person. The wives of poor person are complaining and humming like bees about the effort taken by their husband from morning to evening. Poor persons are struggling to get penny and save it but the wives have to take more effort to maintain the household work. They don’t have enough money to spend. Poet is strongly fascinated by such behavior and circumstances.

4th Stanza:

Poet has felt the touch difference between the laugh of poor person and rich one. Poor person laughs without any hesitation. It is free and bottom of heart. On other side, rich people laugh but it is cold and ambiguous. Poet pointed out that Rich person are far away from the real happiness. They left behind the true happiness in search of more and more money. Poor person is happy with his daily earning and closely connected to the eternal joy of soul.  So poet suggested that rich persons wanted to go down to be in touch with eternal happiness of soul.

5th Stanza:

Poet has compared his economical condition with the past. In past, he possessed sufficient money to spend having more friends in life but these friends were not true because their friendship was shafted on money. So these friends proved untrue. In present life, poet is poor having no sufficient money to spend. In this stage, he has a very few friends but these friends are true and real.

मराठी भाषांतर 

पैसे (MONEY)

जेव्हा होते  माझ्याकडे पैसे रे पैसे. !

आनंद काय असते माहिती नव्हते गरीब होई पर्यंत 

अनेक धूर्त मनुष्य असे मित्रा सारखे 

येऊन ठोठावित  दिवसभर द्वार माझे . 

भासले जणू मी तो  बालक असावे पकडुन 

तुतारी मात्र  तो वाजवणार नाही कधीही

कारण झालेला मानवी जिवंत पणाचे मृत्यू ; मी धाडसले 

 नको बोलू या धूर्त जगास तुझ्या भावना  

करुनी  विचार खूप या जीवनाच्या विविध पैलूचा व बघितले 

कसे गरिबांचे हृदय प्रेमळ निरागस नेहमीच

कसे ते कुरकुरणे बायकांचे जणू मध माशी प्रमाणे न थकता दिवस व रात्र केलेल्या नवऱ्याच्या कष्टाची व्यथा

कानी पडत असे जेव्हा या गरिबांचे हास्य 

आणि त्या श्रीमंतांची  गुपित हसणे ,

हे गरीब माणसा तुला नाही गरज पुढील पाहुलांची 

जितकी हवी श्रीमंतांना मागे येण्याची 

                                          

जेव्हा होते  माझ्याकडे पैसे रे पैसे. !

मित्र ग्राहले  अनेक मात्र खोटारडे ढोंगी 

मात्र आता नाही माझ्या कडे पैसे  रे !

मित्र आहेत सत्यदर्शी प्रेमळ जरी असले थोडेसे .           

IT IS MARATHI TRANSLATION OF  THE POEM MONEY
WRITTEN BY WILLIAM H DAVIES FOR THE
STUDENT’S BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF POEM

(TRANSLATED BY MAIKEL R. BORKAR 8857968811)

CLICK HERE TO VISIT BLOG FOR THE ANALYSIS,
SUMMARY AND ACTIVITIES ON THE POEM “MONEY”                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       

FIGURE OF SPEECH:

APOSTROPHE: Dead object is called considering it alive.

1.     When I had money, money, O!

: Poet is calling money considering it alive.

2. But now I have no money, O!

REPETITION: word is repeated for musical effect.

1.     When I had money, money, O!

: Word ‘money’ is repeated for musical effect.

2.      I knew no joy till I went poor

INVERSION: Word order is changed for an emphasis.

1.     For many a false man as a friend.

: Word order is not  in a correct prose order. The correct prose order is ‘A false man as a friend for many’.     

2.     Poor men, think I, need not go up.
3.  Much I have thought of life, and seen.

ALLITERATION: Beginning sound of the word is repeated for musical effect.     

      1.     For many a false man as a friend

: Sound ‘f’ is repeated for musical effect.    

2.     Because a man is dead; I dared      

3.     Poor men, think I, need not go up     

4.     My many friends proved all untrue    

5.     My friends are real, though very few.

ONOMATOPOEIA: Word expresses the sound.

1.     And how their wives do hum like bees.

: Word ‘hum’ expresses the sound.

SIMILE: Comparison is made between two object which his shown by words, ‘like’, ‘as’ etc.

1. For many a false man as a friend

: Comparison is made between friends and false man. It is shown by word ‘as’.

2. Then felt I like a child that holds

3. And how their wives do hum like bees.

4. So much as rich men should come down.

METAPHOR: Indirect or implied comparison is made between two objects.

1.     How poor men’s hearts are ever light.

:  Implied comparison is made between ‘light’ and the ‘heart of poor man’.
2.    Because a man is dead; I dared.

ANTITHESIS: Use of two opposite words or idea.

1.     Poor men, think I, need not go up

      So much as rich men should come down.

: Words ‘up’ and ‘down’ is opposite to each other.

click here to get PPT on unit 2.6 Money
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hN8QWe7h03SEUflmAGjupc-PdZxqtom0/view?usp=sharing



CLICK HERE FOR ACTIVITIES BASED ON UNIT 2.6 MONEY