Poetic and Prosaic Writeups

The thought behind the poem “To a Phoenix” We are aware of the fact that a phoenix is a symbol of immortality. This kind of mythical bird gets itself burnt into ashes. However, right then, it emerges once again from the hot ashes. It refers to the immortal beings. It has a slight penchant to Jesus Christ as well who had the Resurrection on the third day after His Crucifixion. In this haiku, the speaker persona direly desires to be half like the bird. It is an earnest prayer to the Almighty obliquely as well. This poem alludes to the last stanzas of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s To A Skylark , in which the bird is a symbol of immortality, blitheness, eternal joy, and so on and so forth. In that poem by Shelley too, we come across a prayer by the speaker persona of the poem to the bird symptomatic of divinity. In the current poem called “To a Phoenix”, the speaker desperately prays for immortality which is nothing but a mirage on part of the speaker, since he / she is made of f...

The thought behind the short poem “Phoenix” A phoenix is a mythical bird that is symbolic of immortality, imperishability, and indestructibility and so on and so forth. It burns itself down into ashes, and then, it rises again from the hot ashes to start a new life of its own. Let us now consider this symbolic image in the perspective of the haiku. We know that there are so many people in our society, who, every now and then, try to dominate us, overpower us, and burn us down. No matter what they do to us, we have to stay stoical indeed. We need to vow to ourselves that we will rise again from the hot ashes, because every finish line is nothing but the beginning of a new race. Thence, like a phoenix which suggests all the positive vibes of life, we need to build up our mettle with lots of energy and stability. We must never feel disheartened. We need to keep ourselves firm and unshakeable that we cannot be broken from within at all. The poem -- "Phoenix...