Wednesday 28 November 2018

Reflective view on Edgar Allan poe's short stories: Dr. Jay mehta sir


In our department Dr. Jay mehta as a guest lecturer was invited. In this four day lecture with him we learn many things. He was specially came to deal with Edger Allan Poe' s short stories. But by the time we came to know he was very interested in Gazal , shayri , poems. In this love of poet and art he also created his own poems and shayaries , which was amazing.

He deals with different way of teaching. He taught short stories of Edger poe ' s , which are full with the element of horror, suspence , thriller and Gothic elements. But the way Jaysir deals with it, it  become very interesting. There is no need of further reading of stories.


Jaysir ' s enthusiasm towards subject and teaching is also appreciated. ' He said now the time of take off , now the time of landing , all passengers are ready ... ' such a humorous way of teaching and learning makes lecture more interesting.

In ' The tell- tale heart ' murder of an old man because of awkward eye. It was cold- blooded murder. Split personality of narrator is reflected and revelance of subconscious level .

In ' Black cat ' narrator loves the pets but he becomes made. When he ignored by cat not accept it and killed it. But fear and burden on his soul.

In ' The fall of the house ( usher )  ' usher house has a melancholy view. Roderick boyhood companion of narrator and sister mate tragic death by sickness of house. It evokes feeling of terror , horror and thriller.

 In  ' The cask of Amontillado ' narrator who is Montresor in the story takes revenge to the friend Fortunato who insulted him a lot. Very planned of murder during carnival. Our involvement also in the story.

In ' The Purloined letter ' Story of stolen letter. It is detective story.
In ' The Gold bug ' William legrand get Gold bug , looks like human skull . By cryptography there is a clew of '  treasure ' with bug. But with treasure two skeleton with it also.

Thus poe was far advanced than his time. He creates suspense before the term psycho - thriller.  In his story every words creates effect . Character portration can't imagine by other writers. Thus poe was pioneer in established gothic and horror elements in literature.

At last day special lecture of poems and  poets. Such a amazing lecture. We also fall in love of shayari and gazal , after hearing Jaysir. It was fabulous time and we enjoyed a lot with teaching of sir and also session of poetry. 

At the last we have a session of how to write poetry. On that session he had told us some good writers and poets name to read their works. It is very inspirational lecture.some of the sites and apps and also some youtube channels have suggested by him. So by this 4 days jourmey we have a very fruiteful lessons and also a method of teaching. 

Websites for Gujarati songs and poems
2.Rankar 
4.Jalso Application
Other Facebook page like…
-Shabdmehfil
-Shodhganga
5. Mirza ghalib in youtube
6. Sahitya acadamy
7. Poem hunter
8. Rekhta.org

He haf suggested so many poets and writers whose works are very creativr and different:
Like,
Gulzar, befam, ghayal, harish muniya, ramesh parekh, mukul choksi, yesha dadawala, a.k. ramanuj, bhavesh bhatt, mukesh joshi, jalan matri, saumya joshu, harivanshray bacchan, misky, rahat indori, galib, ahmed faraz, mehndi hasan, manoj khandesiya, anil chavda, i.k. vijliwala.

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