For whom the bell tolls

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This blog is in response of the thinking activity by our mentor prof.Dilip Barad sir for understanding and evaluating things more clear as of to the real ones .This activity shows the true nature of the poems by selecting and explaining elements of them.

➡Physoignomic similarities of Hemingway as a writer :

A great deal has been written about Hemingway's distinctive style. In fact, the two great stylists of twentieth-century American literature are William Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway, and the styles of the two writers are so vastly different that there can be no comparison. For example, their styles have become so famous and so individually unique that yearly contests award prizes to people who write the best parodies of their styles. The parodies of Hemingway's writing style are perhaps the more fun to read because of Hemingway's ultimate simplicity and because he so often used the same style and the same themes in much of his work.

Hemingway took great pains with his work; he revised tirelessly. "A writer's style," he said, "should be direct and personal, his imagery rich and earthy, and his words simple and vigorous." Hemingway more than fulfilled his own requirements for good writing. His words are simple and vigorous, burnished and uniquely brilliant.

His two famous poems :

1.) For whom the bell tolls

It is a novel by Ernest Hemingway published in 1940. It tells the story of Robert Jordan, a young American volunteerattached to a Republican guerrilla unit during the Spanish Civil War. As a dynamiter, he is assigned to blow up a bridge during an attack on the city of Segovia.

⚫Point of view of the writer:

The view of the writer is to predicted the civil war would begin in 1935, and when it erupted in 1936, Hemingway began writing and making speeches to raise funds for the Loyalist cause

⚫Narrative technique :

 For Whom Bell Tolls' presents the narrative through an omniscient point of view that continually shifts back and forth between the characters. In this way, Hemingway can effectively chronicle the effect of the war on the men and women involved.

⚫Characterization :

All the characters has the importance of community and fellow-feeling the values that initially incited and also the characters who are shown as of good image carrying finds it difficult to tackle the war.

⚫Language : 

In this literary piece of art we can find the use of figurative language.Doubtless you could name one or two clods without whom Europe would not be diminished by much. But the principle behind  metaphor that every individual life is valuable, and has meaning has profound consequences for the way we live as a society.

2.) The Old Man and the Sea

It is a short novel written by the American author Ernest Hemingway in 1951 in Cayo Blanco and published in 1952.It was the last major work of fiction written by Hemingway that was published during his lifetime. One of his most famous works, it tells the story of Santiago, an aging Cuban fisherman who struggles with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream off the coast of Cuba.

⚫Point of view :

Among the many aspects of the story, it is the idea of redefining success and victory that makes The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway's classic novella, so profound. It is a seemingly simple story: Santiago is an old, experienced fisherman who hasn't brought in a catch for months.

⚫Narrative technique : 

In The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway makes use of a third person omniscient narrator. This means that the narrator is not a character in the novel and knows about both the old man'sinternal thoughts and external events outside of the old man's knowledge.

⚫Language : 

The language used in this art has a descriptive and figurative language in The Old Man and the Sea. Use of personification,alliteration and similes in the novel. The Old Man and the Sea narrative point of view.Ernest Hemingway intentionally used this distinct style to separate himself from other writers. The recurring thematic strands in most of the writings are love, war, wilderness, and man versus nature. Regarding literary devices, he often turns to metaphors,foreshadowing, imagery, and similes to create a unique style.

⚫Characterization :

Here the characterization is done with simple by personality, the brave Santiago , confident, cheerful, determined, and optimistic, not letting anything in life rattle him. Even when he does not catch a single fish for eighty-four days, he refuses to be discouraged.

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