An Analysis By: Jarid Arnold, Brittany Lux, Derrik Reichard, and Dillon Snyder

“Ganga was sunken, and the limp leaves Waited for rain, while the black clouds Gathered far distant, over Himavant. The jungle crouched, humped in silence.”

“Then spoke the thunder

D A Datta: what have we given?My friend, blood shaking my heartThe awful daring of a moment's surrender Which an age of prudence can never retract By this, and this only, we have existedWhich is not to be found in our obituaries Or in memories draped by the beneficent spider

Or under seals broken by the lean solicitor In our empty rooms D A”

• Datta = be charitable• Based on the closing of a

life• Has given nothing

back• Reflection of

selfishness

“Dayadhvam: I have heard the keyTurn in the door once and turn once only

We think of the key, each in his prisonthinking of the key, each confirms a prison

Only at nightfall, aethereal rumoursRevive for a moment a broken Coriolanus

DA”

• Dayadhvam = be compassionate

• Too worried about self

• Not sympathy for others

“Damyata: The boat respondedGaily, to the hand expert with sail and oarThe sea was calm, your heart would have respondedGaily, when invited, beating obedientTo controlling hands”

• Damyata = be self controlled

• In control of your own life• Happiest time• Tough and easy

“I sat upon the shoreFishing, with the arid plain behind me Shall I at least set my lands in order?London Bridge is falling down falling down falling down”• Speaker is the Fisher

King who is dealing with the close of his life

“Poi s’ascose nel foco che gli affina. Quando fiam uti chelidon – O swallow swallowLe Prince d’Aquitaine à la tour abolie”

“These fragments I have shored against my ruins

Why then Ile fit you. Hieronymo's mad againe.”• Hieronymo is

from “Spanish Tragedy” by Kyd

“Data. Dayadhvam. Damyata.

Shantih shantih shantih”• Data = charitable

• Dayadhvam = compassionate

• Damyata = self-control• Shantih – “The Peace

which passeth understanding”