“Now The Leaves Are Falling Fast” (W. H. Auden) Explanation in English & Hindi

In this post, I have explained summary of BSEB class 12th English prose section Chapter-02 “Songs Of Myself“ in Hindi & English.

Summary in English

W.H. Auden, who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1948 for his collection “The Age of Anxiety”. He had a passion for word-coining & using archaic words. “Now the leaves are falling fast” is one of the finest lyric poems. Which has been composed by the modern poet W.H Auden. The title of this poem suggests us about the death of human beings like the falling fast of leaves. Now the leaves are falling fast has been composed by a British poet W.H. Auden.

Human beings are going to their grave very fast due to suffering and diseases. In this poem, the poet tries to expose the frustration and crisis in modern life. The poet says that all fake love to one another. The messenger of death is present to snatch the real delight of people.

It’s really a fine poem by W H Auden in which he has brilliantly talked about the harsh reality- death. And also advised us to be like a mountain who quenches the thirst of travelers in their last distress.

Summary in Hindi

W. H. Auden, जिन्होंने 1948 में अपने संग्रह “द एज ऑफ एक्सीलेंस ” के लिए पुलित्जर पुरस्कार जीता था। उन्हें शब्द-संयोग और पुरातन शब्दों का उपयोग करने का शौक था। “अब पत्ते तेजी से गिर रहे हैं” बेहतरीन गीत कविताओं में से एक है। जिसकी रचना आधुनिक कवि डब्लू एचऑडेन ने की है। इस कविता का शीर्षक हमें पत्तों के गिरने के तेज की तरह मनुष्यों की मृत्यु के बारे में बताता है। अब पत्ते तेजी से गिर रहे हैं एक ब्रिटिश कवि डब्ल्यू. एच ऑडेन के द्वारा रचा गया है  |

इंसान दुख और बीमारियों के कारण बहुत तेजी से अपनी कब्र पर जा रहा है। इस कविता में कवि आधुनिक जीवन में निराशा और संकट को उजागर करने की कोशिश करते है। कवि कहते है कि सभी एक दूसरे से नकली प्यार करते हैं। मृत्यु का दूत लोगों के वास्तविक आनंद को छीनने के लिए मौजूद है।

यह वास्तव में W H Auden कि एक अच्छी कविता हैं जिसमें उन्होंने जीवन के कठोर सत्य यानि मौत के बारे में बात की है | और हमें सलाह भी दिये है की एक पहाड़ कि तरह बनें जो एक मरते हुए मुसाफिर कि प्यास बुझाता है |

Short Questions

Q1. What does the poet mean when he says “Now the Leaves are falling fast”?

Ans. The poet wants to say that the people are turning old. And they are gradually going towards the grave. Now they completed their journey of life in this world.

Q2. How according to the poet, we complete our last journey to the grave?

Ans. Firstly one’s soul is seized by the whispering neighbours then body freezes subsequently they are kept in a coffin after bath and finally people takes him to the cemetery and put in the grave.

Q3. Who are the whispering Neighbours?

Ans. They are the angle of death who seizes our soul and as a result we die.

Q4. How does human life become miserable?

Ans. When a person is exploited, he starves, his soul is seized his life becomes miserable.

Q5. What is troll which appeared in the poem?

Ans. Troll is in fact an imaginary creature of Scandinavian mythology. It has a very ugly and horrible face and it causes suffer to humanity.

Q6. What do you mean by nurse’s flower?

Ans. Nurse’s flower means the plants which is planted around the main plants to support it as a base.

Q7 who is dumb in the poem?

Ans. The nightingale is dumb is the poem.

Q8. In what way the travellers are blessed?

Ans. When the travellers are thirsty they quench their thirst from the waterfalls of the cold and white mountain. In this way they are blessed.