Swami Vivekanand | Peace | A Critical Analysis
Swami Vivekanand | Peace | A Critical Analysis
Swami Vivekanand | Peace | A Critical Analysis
‘Peace’ by Swami Vivekananda is a philosophical poem through which the poet tries to define peace. ‘Peace’ is a mental as well as social state which depends on our environment. But the poet speaks here about mental peace, not of social peace. Mentally or philosophically peace is an abstract idea. The poet, in this poem, tries to give a concrete idea of peace through both abstract and concrete imagery (the imagery is a mental picture of an idea or of an object of sensuous appeal). But the imagery through which the poet gives the idea of peace is somewhat puzzling like a riddle. The poem contains seven stanzas every stanza of which contains independent imagery.
The first two stanzas are like apparent riddles. Through these stanzas, the poet says that peace comes in might. It has great power though not seen by eyes. Peace is like a light in dank. It is like shade in dazzling light. It is the joy about which nothing can be said. It is as profound as grief that is not felt. It is immortal like them who are dead. It is as eternal as the death of them on whose death none mourns.
In the remaining stanzas, the poet Vivekananda continues to define or characterize peace and says that peace is a state which gives rise to neither joy nor sorrow but between the two. By saying so, the poet wants to mean that peace is a mixture of both joy and sorrow. Peace is neither as darksome as night nor as shining as the morning, but as the dawn. It is like a pause in music or art. It is the silence between speaking and fits of passion. It is the calmness of the heart. It is the beauty that can never be seen. It is love that stands alone. It is a song that is unknown.
The poet, yet ceases not, but continues to say more as:
”It is death between two livesÂ
And lull between two stormsÂ
The void whence rose creation.
And that where it returns.”Â
And again he says:
”To it the tear-drop goesÂ
To spread the smiling form
It is the Goal of life,
And peace – its only home.”
The above analysis of the poem ‘Peace’ shows that though the poet tries his best to define or characterise Peace, yet he seems to fail. Peace always remains a mystery. It can be felt only; never can be caught or seen. It always pertains to our mental state more than our material world.
The language of the poem is easy to read but difficult to mean. It gives the only idea which can never be explained in words. But the imageries which the poet evokes in this poem are appropriate to the theme and these imageries are enough to grasp a mental idea of what peace is. 0 0 0
Swami Vivekanand | Peace | A Critical Analysis
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N. B. This article entitled ‘Swami Vivekanand’s Poem ‘Peace’ A Critical Analysis’ originally belongs to the book ‘Indian English Poetry Criticism‘ by Menonim Menonimus. Swami Vivekanand | Peace | A Critical Analysis
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