Like an Old Proud King in a Parable A. J.M. Smith, Summary for BA Students.
Like
an Old Proud King in a Parable
A. J.M.
Smith
The
Poem Like an Old Proud King in a Parable was written by the Canadian
Poet, A.J.M Smith. This poem appeared in McGill Fortnightly Review in the year 1926.
In this poem Smith narrates the story of an Old King who abandons his Kingdom
to become a poet. This poem depicts the poetic career of Smith. Smith breaks
some of the old poetic conventions and brings novelty into the society.
A king is bored to forego the pleasure of the Kingdom. He renounces his kingdom, and leave his flattering courtiers and adoring wife. The king readily sacrifices the existing kingly life and moves to a lonely land, “a meadow in the Northern Stone”. Northern Stone is in the northern parts of Canada, a land of mountain, snow and forest filled with nature. The King rejoices to live his life along the meadow. In the meadow he feels like an uncontrollable swan, “the heart that controlled liked swan”. The King desires to give up his worldly life and aspires for an isolated life along the Northern Stone.
In
the second stanza “O who is that bitter king? It is not I", the poet employs a
device to depersonalize the poem. The bitter King tosses away the
worldly life and seek the Goddess of Pride (Intellectual). He realizes that
intellectual beauty is more vital than worldly pleasures. So, the King decides
to sing songs for the barren rocks.
The
poem ends in a typical ironic self-mockery, as the speaker of the poem prays to
be able to learn a proud isolated art inspite of its rare possibility of achievement.
Easy to understand
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Prince Siddhartha was bored with the Princely pleasures .. was shocked to learn of old age, disease and death .. walked out of his marriage, kingdom, became monk ... in quest of illumination ... attained nirvana at Bodh gaya, Bihar, India .. the men of pleasures, leaving their pride of role/place seems to be an archetypal theme ... again, Siddhartha in Herman Hesse's novel, painter Strickland in Maugham's Moon and six pence .. well, the list is endless .... on the other hand, we have the material thrist/quest of the ambitious poor ..
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