On the beach by Anne Ranasinghe
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This is a wonderful simple poem composed by Anne Ranasinghe, who was a jewish woman at birth and fled to UK to escape from Nazi persecution. She met a Sri Lankan professor there and they married and returned to Sri Lanka. AR had a tough time in her childhood days and she was naturally very much concerned about the violence, particularly of the Man's inhumanity to animals. This simple poem discusses about how a little puppy is tortured by three fun loving young boys at the beach. AR is very much moved by this dastardly insane behaviour of the three boys.
Transcript of On the beach by Anne Ranasinghe
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Bhiksu University of Sri lanka, Anuradhapura.
Department of Languages
English Literature – Poetry
Rev. Nivitigala Sumitta(Senior Lecturer in English
BY ANNE RANASINGHE
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Neither the crashOf the morning waves
Nor the sunlight singing of windCan drownHis yelps
Three boys, one puppyA rope
Torture on the beach.
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His agony rips Dark holes in your eyes
And helpless angerTwists in your hand as
The rope nooses tighterThe thin stick beats harder
Then they throw sand
The sand fills his eyesThe sand fills his noseThe sand fills his ears
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And though your tearsTaste salt in my mouthThe alien yearsHave rotted my tongue Into immobility
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Anne was born in 1925. She fled from the holocaust (a situation in which many things are destroyed and many people killed, especially because of a war or a fire:
ex. a nuclear holocaust) in Germany just before the WW II broke out.
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She was married to a Sri Lankan professor of Colombo University and continues to live in Sri
Lanka.
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She was the joint winner of the Arts Council poetry prize in 1985 and won the prize for Prose
and Non-fiction in 1987.
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Empathy (the ability to understand another person’s feelings, experience, etc) with creatures under attacks from people is a
vital theme here.
THE SNARE
I hear a sudden cry of pain!
There is a rabbit in a snare:
Now I hear the cry again,
But I cannot tell from where.
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But I cannot tell from where
He is calling out for aid!Crying on the frightened
air,Making everything
afraid!
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Making everything afraid!Wrinkling up his little
face!As he cries again for aid:
And I cannot find the place!
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And I cannot find the place
Where his paw is in the snare!
Little One! Oh, Little one!I am searching everywhere!
DHAMMAPADA Sabbe tasanti dandassasabbe bhayanti maccunoAttanam upamam katvana haneyya na ghataye
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All tremble at force; of death are all afraid;
likening others to oneself kill not nor cause to kill.
DHAMMAPADA
Sabbe tasanti dandassa
sabbesam jivitam piyam
Attanam upamam katva
na haneyya na ghataye
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All tremble at force; dear is life to all; likening others to
oneself kill not nor cause to
kill.
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Five Precepts
I undertake to observe the precept to abstain from
killing living beings
MASOCHISM (NOUN)
1. the practice of getting sexual pleasure from being physically hurt
-------------------------------------• compare SADISM (noun)
•enjoyment from watching or making sb suffer
•a need to hurt sb in order to get sexual pleasure
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MASOCHISM (NOUN)2 the enjoyment of sth that
most people would find unpleasant or painful
• masochist (noun)• masochistic (adjective)
ASSIGNMENT•Come prepared for a speech on
“Man’s inhumanity to animals”(3 minutes)
•Write an appreciation on the poem“On the beach”
By Anne Ranasinghe
THAT’S ALL FOR
TODAY…
