Discourse in desciplines
Culture and society
1.New nepal: Shiddicharan shrestha
1. Siddhicharan Shrestha Inspires the common people to move forward with the promising Nepal in his poem "New Nepal'. Are you optimistic to his vision?
ANSWER
The speaker addresses the Nepalese people. The poem brings the situation where the country has been on the control of the Rana Regime. The old Nepal had been in the cankerous inequality of wealth. The Rana rulers used to keep the Nepalese society in the dark rooms of the illiteracy, blind beliefs and the partiality People from Nepal used to think that the limited arena of their society was whole for them.
We can say, the speaker and the audience of the poem are both Nepalese people. He asks the people to rise, awake and embark ahead with the new spirit of the freedom. The poem evokes to raise the voice against all discriminating behaviours of the past and to bring in a new arena of freedom and human dignity. The poet calls for the New Nepal to speak up with truth and beauty. The purity of the consciousness needs to be brought with the vigor. The speaker calls for setting free the courage to bring forth the bright day.
The speaker calls out for advancing fast to take the new step to bring forththe bright day. The speaker has the expectation of getting the blessing of courage and cautious with power and unjor. The social and ritual practices need to be thrown out. The social ills like class divisions are called out to be thrown out.
The New Nepal calls for the living thoughts rejecting all the dead practices. The new thoughts would bring a new catch fire to open up a new horizon the hopeful horizon for all the Nepalese people that is most awaiting for the people. The New Nepal calls for the new hopes not in the hatered and bitterness. The new Nepal doesnot allow any biasness or any indifferent behaviours to any one. The speaker has the hope that all the Nepalese people with the hungry stomachs and bare backs will experience the real freedom, equality and satisfaction.
The poem is written in the Nepali context. The then Nepal, about 70-80 years ago, was in a dark grip of the Rana Regime. Poet had the dare to voice against the rulers and call for the new Nepal. The poem calls for breaking up the traditions and call for new Nepal without any discrimination. The poet uses the poetic design of reputation to make more attractive and appealing. The poem is a good success to remain in the heart of every Nepalese who yearned for democracy at that time.
2. What are the evils that the speaker wants to change by the poems?
ANSWER
This poem is a voice of change the poet wants to bring to the then Nepalese society. The society was extremely explained by the rulers. It seemed that as if all the Nepalese people had been in the great sorrows and wanted the freedom. This poem works as if the real hero had trumpeted for the change. The poet has drawn the attentions of the people for different ills that need to be changed.
The poet brings the evils that need to be changed are: ill treatments, the worn out disorder, distasteful rituals, class divisions, idle forces, not-to-be done acts, cankerous inequality and hungry stomachs and bare backs. The ill treatments like persecution should be erased or completely changed. The warn and disorders should be sent or pecked out with the furious laughters. The distasteful rituals need to be revived with the changes, the positive changes. Then only the New Nepal can be really achieved.
The poet expects us to go accordingly his wishes if we really want to change and achieve the new alarming experiences of the changes. The new Nepal can be truly achieved in sense of compete eradication of class division and idle forces. The people should not be prosecuted for the not to be done acts. Then only the Nepalese people can experience the true sense of the New Nepal. The destructive disease of the inequality and wealth should be rooted out. Then only the hungry stomach and the bare backs would be quenched, fulfilled, covered or satisfied.