CRITICAL ESSAY ON 'JUDAS' BY MORRIS

                                                                                 JUDAS
              This poem was written by Mervyn Eustes Morris a Jamaican poet. Morris usually stresses upon the importance of nation and its language through his verse. He wants to redefine the aspect of Jamaican culture and their creole language. In the first stanza it had told thaat the master gave Judas a mocking smile. But actually Christ simply smiled at Judas , but in these lines Morris has exggerated the smile into a mocking smile. The word 'mocking' seemed to be the striking word and therfore poet wanted to highlight the 'mocking glance' of the master.
            The poet explains the Judas feeling of being partial by his master who had given the priority for John to sit in his right. This was again the poets partial feeling even in his own homeland by the colonisers.He has  said that the truth which is in the side of colonised is alays complicated in the foreign eyes. also the coloniser is the ''knowintg judge of man''  in the sense whart ever they say is believed by the world.
           On the whole the poem 'Judas' by Mervyn Morris is nothing but a representation of history by the point of view of the victim. He had deconstructed the real and the past i.e. deconstructing the already existing ideas. Also he wanted to say that the colonised people's ideas and life thoughts are not accepted whereas the colonisers idealogy, life and thioughts were accepted. The poet uses the word 'master' and 'lord' for christ inorder to avoid the religious conflict. Though he describes the pathetic condition if 'colonised' people in the poem the comparison used in this poem is quite controversial however the poet tried to escape of controversies through his careful selection of words and diction.
                                           The old man out is always 
                                           Judas 'we're from Galilee'
                                           (Nasty little province,
                                            smells of fish!)

FIRST NEIGHBOURS BY P.K.PAGE

                                        FIRST NEIGHBOURS -CRITICAL ESSAY
                        This poem was written by P.K.PAGE . She was acknowledged as the best Canadian poet and also fellow of Royal Society of Canada. her homeland is England and so hr dialect is very from that of a people of Canada. she expresses her feeling tat all the human are equal and there is no difference in them, but the people of Canada feels that she is different with the shape of her ear. she says that the girl jeered at her for burned bread. The homeland is always secure comparing to the other nation.
                         She says that she has become a minor and invalid. Her remarks are not worthy. Her gestures are silly of sick. She has become a trivial being in the views of her neighbours. the next stanza speaks about her mental state. And she says that finally she has become hardened like a chapped tarpaulin. She started to negotiate whatever she uttered is of strange meanings to others and Vice versa. She wants to connect herself with the others. She brought herself to the level to get connected with them.
                        In the next stanza , she is exploring mindscape through landscape, she says that nothing is steady everything  inaccurate.Here, the forest is compared to the inner mind. she wants to be connected with them she gets scared and then she says that clumsiness and fright are inevitable. Finally she says that prediction is forever impossible. We cannot predict anything. Thus she concludes her poem.

CANDIDA - PROBLEM PLAY

                                                  CANDIDA  AS A PROBLEM PLAY
                  A problem play is a play in the tradition of realism dealing with a problem, social ,moral, political, philosophical and so on. The Norwegian dramatist Henrik Ibsen pioneered this kind of drama in Europe, and Bernard shaw in England followed suit.
                  Candida is a typical shavian problem play that handles the problem of love and marriage, man -woman relationship.The arrival of the young poet, Eugene Marchbanks, James, and his long-married wife, Candida, catapults their happy married life, as the middle-aged Candida discovers herself strangely caugnht in between the-dependent husband and her independent lover.
                   Shaw chooses an apparently stereotypical love-triangle, in which a married woman falls in an extra marriatal affair. But he characteristically turns the table as a woman is neither driven out by her husband, nor does she elope with her unlawful lover Candida stays back with Morell because he is waeker than Marchbanks, and Morell is no longer the strong and self-important husband. It is rather Candida who is emotional as well as social economic condition.
                   Candida's choice reflects Shaw's insistence on the importance of the practical wisdom . Candida is a thoroughly practical minded woman in this play. However, the play has a conventional sense of pleasantness is not allowing the institution of marriage to be seriously challenged by love. Thus 'Candida' is a problem play.