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Abhisara The Tryst (English Explanation) | Rabindranath Tagore | ISC Class 11 Rhapsody #sudhirsir
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abisara the trist that's the poem we are
going to discuss today this is written
by gurudev rabindran Tor and uh this is
the first poem as far as rapid book is
concerned for ISC class 11 students now
gurudev rabindran tagor you would know
was the first non-european to be awarded
the Nobel Prize for literature in the
year 1913 for his collection of poems
called ganel okay and this particular
poem abisara celebrates the beauty of
Nature and the power of pure pure love
the power of pure love and the beauty of
nature please remember these phrases
because you could use them in your
now upagupta and VAB data these are the
two characters as far as this particular
poem abisara is concerned Gupta and vas dat
dat
spellings okay now upagupta was a
disciple of Lord Buddha okay so that was
his character and he is the symbol and
please remember these three words I've
written it down in the notes of
selflessness that is doing things for
others and not for
oneself knowledge and righteousness as
in doing the right thing basav data was
a dancing girl in fact I remember
reading amarra katas of VAV dat and this
there are many stories about their
encounters the two encounters the two
meetings Rondevu that uh rind tagor has
spoken about are a little different but
nevertheless these are the ones which
you need to deal with but if you're
interested you can always pick up a book
on basav Dat there are many available on
the net and you can go through it also
so VAB data was known to be pretty proud
of her elegance and fortune that aspect
does not really come out in this poem
but that is essentially known to be one
of the characteristics of basav dat now
the next question is where is this poem
based in the poem is based in matura
which is a town in utar Pradesh pretty
close to Delhi ma is known for its oil
refinery as the uh also associated with
Lord Krishna and this particular poem
essentially talks of two events first in
the month of August and then the
following year in the month of April
okay so a gap of about eight months
between the two events when upagupta and
wasab data meet okay please remember all
these little little pointers that I'm
telling you because that helps you kind
of place the poem in a particular
context so once the poem itself is not a
complex poem but you need to understand
the context of the poem the themes of
the poem which is what I am focusing on
now what happens St on a night in August
is when upagupta is sleeping somewhere
in matura and vadata is walking and
that's when she meets him okay and she's
Enchanted by his kind of looks by his
very Serene and good looks and she says
that this is not the place for you to
lie down please come to my home he says
no I won't and he says that he will come
to her when the time is ripe as in when
the time is right cut to April the
following year right the city of MAA is
celebrating the Festival of flows and
upagupta and most of them have gone to
the forest to celebrate that Festival
upagupta finds someone who is lying
outside the town on the outskirts of the
town right in the shadow of a mango
Grove and he finds that that is VAB data
and she has been thrown outside the town
because she's suffering from small pox
which is a contagious disease it could
spread to other people so they have
thrown her out of the uh town and um
upagupta at that point in time he shows
compassion and he tends to her and says
that the time has come for me to meet
you okay to visit you so the poem
essentially illustrates kindness empathy
and true love that when she needs him is
when upagupta says that I have come now
to visit you because the time is right
because you need someone to look after
you everyone else has discarded you but
I am here to help you I'm here to look
after you that is the reflection of
Truth true love
okay joke that
in you know I don't know if you're
familiar with bangaluru as a city and
there will be some students from
bangaluru out here bangaluru airport is
very far out from the city and the
traffic of Bengaluru is notorious right
so people say that in
Bengaluru someone X does not say I love
you to why if you want to show true love
to somebody in bangaluru you actually go
to receive them at the airport that that
is like the ultimate reflection of true
love as far as bangaloreans are
concerned just a joke no offense okay
now abisara in Sanskrit means meeting
okay trist uh means an appointment of
sorts okay abisara the trist uh trist
with Destiny javal Neu speech on the
midnight of August 1415 1947 delivered
in Parliament so trst with appointment
with Destiny here also meeting and
you're talking about a trist an
appointment okay and he has made an
appointment that I will come to you when
the time is right I hope you're
understanding the context
now uh the themes of the poem I've
written and I explain basically what
I've spoken about so far love and
longing for each other right then the
whole theme of spirituality right that
is the woman's Journey you know at one
time she was much sought after and one
time she's completely discarded right so
uh when she finally unites with upagupta
it symbolizes the union of an individual
and with the cosmic Consciousness in the
sense that you know it is also something
very spiritual okay um that is there and
the elements of nature which are there
in the second half of the poem and of
course the theme of compassion let's now
get started with the poem upagupta the
disciple of Buddha it's not written like
a typical poetry with with very heavy
words so you would find it pretty simple
to understand lay asleep on the Dust by
the city wall of Matra by means along
the wall by the city wall of Matra this
is pretty much almost like pros you
would find it very easy to understand
lamps were all outd doors were all shut
that is there were no lamps so it was
all dark the doors were all shut because
it was night time and stars were all
hidden by the murky Sky of August now
the murky means dark and very gloomy
kind of an atmosphere the stars were
hidden means there was some kind of a
cloud cover as a result of which no
stars were visible the doors were shut
indicates a sense of quiet okay uh
that's the atmosphere on this August
night or this night in
August whose feet were those tinkling
with anklets touching his breast of a
sudden now suddenly at that point in
time upagupta is awakened
because when the feet of a woman who is
wearing these kind of anklets you know
Bal okay uh and that woman was VAV data
that woman was VAV data a dancer who was
wearing those anklets which made a
tinkling kind of a sound he woke up
startled startled means there is a sense
of uh you know he's surprised he's kind
of surprised as a result of which aan
say he kind of gets up okay and
he woke up startled means he was in deep
Sleep only when you are in deep sleep
and someone comes and disturbs you you
are kind of startled kind of thing
because you're in deep Sleep deep sleep
who who are the kind of people who sleep
in deep Sleep who people who are at
peace with themselves if you are a very
troubl sought if you're having lot of
worries if you're having lot of
anxieties lot of tension your sleep is
likely to be disturbed you're likely to
see very disturbed dreams or you would
keep waking up right so you are if you
sleeping very peacefully it means you
are a man of Peace you have no worries
or anxieties in the world right and the
light from a woman's lap struck his
forgiving eyes now woman's lap so she's
holding a lamp and that sweat it kind of
struck his forgiving eyes forgiving eyes
also kind of conveys that you know he
did not kind of feel angry with her that
she had woken him up right so that is
again something which shows his
compassionate and kind uh hearted nature right
right
now basav data it was the dancing girl
starred with jewels clouded with a pale
blue mantle drunk with the wine of her
youth now there are a few important
words out here right uh mantle is a
loose sleeveless garment worn over the
clothes by women okay so that is the
meaning of the word mantle out here
right she was wearing a lot of jewelry
okay so you can imagine a dancing girl
who was wearing this kind of a mantle
who was adorned with a lot of jewelry
clouded with a pale blue mantle drunk
with the wine of her youth drunk with
the vne of her youth one conveys her
youthful Beauty and also Lively demeanor
you know there is something very
beautiful uh and very artistic about her
drunk kind of conveys a sense of Pride
you know you are like they say you know
he was drunk on power of his father you
know the chief Minister's son was drunk
on the power of his father that you know
father was Chief father is chief
minister so I can do anything and I can
kill people on the payment you know that
kind of a drunk I mean drunk does not
necessarily mean actual intoxication but
Intoxicated by the power that you feel
that you
know here she's drunk with the wine of
her youth that is she felt good and in a
sense a sense of Pride right uh that she
was indeed very young and very Lively
and beautiful okay so that is
something that's how you need to
interpret this she lowered her lamp and
saw the young face osterly beautiful now
she lowered her lamp to see upagupta and
she saw this young man's face who was
very handsome austerely beautiful auster
also means uh someone who is serious in
the way he looks you know simple and
serious in the way he looks austerely
beautiful and then they speak forgive me
young as atic now athetic is someone who
is a saint kind of a person a sadhu kind
of person so she apologizes to
him and athetic is also someone who
abstains from any kind of indulgence who
has kind of you
know you know he is kind of leading a
very saintly kind of Life practices self
discipline and usually it's associated
with a particular religion in this case
the Buddhist religion so forgive me so
she's kind of asked for apology U young
athetic said the woman graciously come
to my house the dusty Earth is not a fit
bed for you that this dusty place is not
where you should ideally sleep upagupta
declines her uh invitation woman go on
your way when the time is ripe I will
come to you so is that you go now go on
your way can be interpreted like you go
on your way that is you go to your home
go on your way can also be interpreted
like you continue doing what you are
doing I will come to you when the time
is right right so it can be interpreted
both literally that is saying that you
know you proceed where you are going
right now or in the metaphorical sense
you continue doing what you're doing I
will come to you only when the time is
Rip okay when the time is right when the
time is right I will definitely come to
you suddenly the Black Knight showed its
teeth in a flash of lightning okay now
showed its teeth it's almost
personification the Black Knight showed
its teeth means lightning when there
is it's almost like you know someone is
kind of flashing his teeth so in a St in
a flash of lightning so there is the
element what I spoke you told you about
the theme of nature both in terms of the
trees and the flowers in the later half
of the poem and in the first half of the
poem like this the storm growled another
way of personification grow is used for
wolves or dogs right but here it's been
used for the storm the the kind of you
know the acoustic effect growled from
the corner of the sky and the woman
trembled in fear right so she sees the
lightning she hears the sound and she
trembled in fear so you have the
personification uh poetic devices which
have been used and the branches of the
aching oh there are two lines which are
missing there are two lines which have
gone missing in this strangely let me
just look at the book so that in any
case you have the book right so you will
about 1
the next line is a year had not passed
it was the evening of a day in April in
the spring okay those are the two lines
which are missing in this particular
version very strangely the branches of
the Wayside trees were aching with
Blossom gay notes of the flute came
floating in the warm spring air from
afar afar means from far off so now the
poem has made a transition to 8 months
later to the month of April when it is
spring season right and what happens in
Spring season you find a variety of
flowers on the trees so the branches of
the trees are filled with flowers
conveying the beauty of the spring
season and what does spring convey
spring conveys freshness spring conveys
Beauty spring conveys new life it
conveys renewal of life and energy a
freshness okay uh so from a distance the
cheerful and gay Tunes lovely Tunes uh
from a flute could be heard so in mcqs
you could get questions like this which
is the instrument which has been uh
mentioned in this particular
poem the citizens had gone to the woods
to the Festival of flowers from the mid
Sky gazed the full moon on the Shadows
of the silent town so the citizen there
was the Festival of flowers which was
being celebrated so all of them had gone
to the forest to the woods means to the
Forest Area outside matura from the mid
Sky gaze the full moon on the Shadows of
the silent town so uh from the mid Sky
gaze the full moon so this time earlier
the moon could not be seen because it
was a dark sky no stars could be seen
but this time the full moon is seen um
the full moon is seen this time on the
Shadows of the silent town so on the
Shadows of the silent town you have the
reflection of the full moon the young
athetic was walking in the Lonely Street
earlier it was VAV data who was walking
and upagupta was sleeping this time VAB
data is sleeping while the athetic
upagupta is walking and he walks towards
her so the young athetic so you see the
difference and note the difference the
young atic was walking in the Lonely
Street why is it lonely because everyone
in the town has gone to the woods for
the Festival of flaws while over head
The Love Sick coils urged from the mango
branches their Sleepless plaint plaint
means complaint so the coils are singing
coil is always a bird which is
associated with singing with sweet voice
okay so it is and it is love sick it is
kind of talking and singing of love so
the coil which is a member of the C
family known for its singing and uh it
is singing of Love okay they were
singing their love six songs uh which
indicates unfulfilled desire pretty much
similar to basab data and upagupta and
the longing for the Beloved which is
precisely what vas data did not so
apparent in this particular poem but in
the larger stories of vas dat and
upagupta that is pretty much a theme of
longing for the Beloved that vas data
falls in love with upagupta the moment
he she sees him so upagupta walked out
of the city and stopped at the base of
the walls of the city passed through the
city Gates and stood at the base of the
rampart Rampart Rampart of the Red Fort
the walls of the fort so the bottom area
that's what is known I mean the area
next to the walls is known as the ramp
parts of the fort so it stood at the
ramp part what woman lay in the shadow
of the wall at his feet struck with the
black pestilence her body spotted with
SS hurly driven away from the town so he
he's kind of questioning are who is this
woman who has been driven away who kind
of lying at near the shadow of the wall
and struck with She's suffering from
small pox pestilence is a fatal epidemic
uh disease okay so her body has these
kind of source of small pox and she had
been driven away from the town to
prevent the spread of the disease hurly
driven away from the town the athetic
SAT by her side taking her head on her
SN so he took VAB dat's um head on his
lap okay and moisten her lips with water
gave her water to drink in order to wet
her lips smeared her body with balb balb
could be a sandalwood P because that's
what is normally used so uh he did that
to kind of ensure that you know it would
help her in some way or other as a
medication and at that point in time VAB
data who so weak that this time she's
not recognized this man who are you
merciful one asked the woman merciful
means someone who is showing Mercy as
opposed to the people of the Town who
had turned her out the time at last has
come to visit you and I am here replied
the young athetic that I had said that I
will visit you when the time is ripe and
the time has come now because at this
point in time is when you actually need
me and I'm here to be of some kind of
help to you so that's what op Gupta
replies now I've already mentioned some
of the poetic devices like
personification the alliteration gay
notes of a flute came floating FF uh
then the young athetic is repeated many
times so there is a thing of repetition
then U there is also the element of
force shadowing which has been used in
the sense that you know when the time is
right I will come for you which means
that you the moment he says it the first
time you know that in this poem there
will come a time when it actually comes
true when he comes for her when the time
is ripe so there is a sense element of
foreshadowing and that's one of the
literary devices which has been used by
rabindra tagor then symbolism the mango
tree which kind of symbolizes love coil
as a bird uh singing from the mango tree
about unfulfilled love again as a
symbolism of the love between upagupta
and vasata more from vasata side for
upagupta uh then of course a lot of
imagery has been used austerely
beautiful starred with jewels clouded
with a blue pale blue mantle all of them
kind of help you form an image of VAB
data in your mind similarly that of
upagupta but much more of vasad data it
kind of helps you form what kind of a
person she would have been um along with
this I would be giving you the logical
reasoning questions the long answers and
questions five marks and 10 marks also
the mcqs okay so once all the elements
are there that should help you with your
preparation uh for the examination as
far as abisara is concerned it's a
simple poem uh but the themes is what
you should be aware of and all the kind
of words the specific words that you
should use so once you go through my
question and answers and notes you would
find it pretty easy to do that okay T
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