DENNES SEBASTIAN

  Horegallu Sudha Murthy Horegallu is a stone bench, placed on road sides. Travellers and farmers working in nearby fields could take a little rest on the horegallu. They were usually placed under trees like banyan which provide much needed shade and relief. Cool water would also be made available in earthen pots for the weary travellers. They could put down the burden they carry, rest for a while, refresh themselves, exchange the news of the road with fellow travellers, share their worries and difficulties, and later continue their journey. Character Sketches of Grandfather and Ratna Grandfather was retired schoolteacher. He used to sit under the banyan tree, in the village and talk to those resting there. They were mostly farmers working in the field nearby or long distance travellers. He used to listen to their worries and hardships patiently. Talking to him used to refresh the travellers and they would pick up their burden once again and continue their journey. Ratna ...

Theme of the Poem. Robert Frost's Mending Wall is symbolic. Walls are constructed for protection and safety. To keep away dangers and strangers. But it also stands for separation and segregation. Mending wall presents two types of people. The Wall Makers and The Wall Breakers. The Traditionalists and those who wishes for change in the Society (The Radicals or Revolutionaries). The haves and the have - nots. The Natural forces and the Supernatural forces. It is a fight man verses nature and divine elements. The man wants the wall but natural and supernatural forces breaks the wall. Walls are against the natural order of things. The very Nature conspires against the wall. Nature does not like walls. Walls stands for discrimination – walls of racial, religious, casteist, cultural, political, economic, geographical walls exist in the society. Time and Place Produces people who pull down these walls. Wall builders would try rebuilding the wall. It is a Sisyphean ta...

  Analysis of the Poem. A stone wall separates the speaker’s property from his neighbour’s. In every spring season the poet finds the wall broken. He informs his neighbour who lives across the hill. The two meets on a day to walk on either side of the wall and jointly make repairs. So Spring is a mending time. The poet does not know what bring the wall down. He says that there is something that doesn’t love the wall. He believes that it may be the work of the rabbit hunters or tremors of frozen ground. Every year they find the wall damaged and together they make repairs. In some places the speaker sees no reason for the wall to be kept—there are no cows to be contained, just apple and pine trees. He does not believe in walls for the sake of walls.  The neighbour resorts to an old adage: “Good fences make good neighbors.” The speaker remains unconvinced and mischievously presses the neighbor to look beyond the old-fashioned folly of such reasoning. His neighbour will not be...