INNOVATIVE WORK

NAME : AVANI KRISHNA. S

OPTION : ENGLISH

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POEMS

REJUVENATED

AS STORIES

HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (February 27, 1807 – March 24, 1882)

was an American poet and educator whose works include "Paul Revere's Ride",

The Song of Hiawatha, and Evangeline. He was also the first American to

translate Dante Alighieri's The Divine Comedy, and was one of the five Fireside

Poets. His first major poetry collections were Voices of the Night (1839) and

Ballads and Other Poems (1841). He died in 1882.

THE VILLAGE

BLACKSMITH

Once up on a time there was a blacksmith, who was famous for his hard

work. He always engaged in his work. His hands are as strong as iron. His hair

faces are all black. He earned his livelihood by his own hard work. His bellows

blow day in and day out without any break. The sights and sounds from the

smithy are thrilling experience to school children coming home. When in

church, his daughter’s voice in the chair makes him happy. To him it is like the

voice of her dead mother in paradise. His life was full of sorrows.

His day begins with a task and finishes it by evening and the night is for

him to rest.

This story talks about the daily routine of a blacksmith it is the story of

hard work. Blacksmith is the embodiment of success. The price of success is

hard work. Dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we

win or lose we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand

SEAMUS HEANEY

Seamus Heaney Irish poet and writer are widely recognized as one of

the major poets of the 20th century. He was the author of over 20 volumes of

poetry and criticism. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1995. His first

book ‘Eleven poems were published in 1965. He currently lives in Dublin’.

FOLLOWER

Once there lived a father and son. Father was an expert ploughman, son

always watched him ardently to follow his path in ploughing

While following his father, son sometimes carry on him on his back. He

was a nuisance to the father as he stumbles and falls. But now the aged father

follows his son tripping and doesn’t go away. An interesting thing is that, “now

the follower is father”.

NISSIM EZEKIEL

Nissim Ezekiel (1924 –2004) was an Indian Jewish poet, actor, playwright,

editor and art-critic. He is considered as one of the leading poets in Indian

writing in English. He was the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1983.

NIGHT OF THE

SCORPION

It was a rainy night. It had rained continuously for ten hours. This had

driven the scorpion to crawl beneath a sack of rice when the mother entered in

to the room for collecting rice; the scorpion stung her and went in to the rain

again. He Hearing the cry of mother neighbours came there, they began to buzz

the name of God to paralyze the scorpion. They searched for the scorpion

outside with candles and lanterns. But their search was invain.

They whispered to themselves, “Every movement of the scorpion will

move the poison in mother’s blood, so it may sit still”.

“May your sins of your previous birth will burn away”.

Instead of giving comfort to the mother, they engaged in unnecessary

talk.

Hearing the news more neighbours approached there, but they also

engaged in unnecessary talk. Mother was twisting and turning on the mat

groaning.

Then there approached her husband he was a sceptic and rationalist, so he

did not waste time for praying like the peasants. So he poured a little paraffin oil

upon the bitten toe and put a match stick on it. It started burning. Helpless son

stood there staring at the mother.

After that holy man came, and started performing his rites and chanted

mantras in order to tame the poison.

After a long time the poison became ineffectual.

Mother only said’ Thank God scorpion on me it spared to my son”.