The Frog And The Nightingale

the frog and the nightingale

1. The Frog and the Nightingale The Frog and the Nightingale By Vikram Seth

2. Group 5 Group Leader Nivedita Asst. Group Leader Rishika Members Ruchi Sakshay Lalit Submitted To Mrs. Shashi Dabra

3. Contents Introduction About The Author Comics Summary Character sketches Moral Poetic Device Questions

4. Introduction The poem ‘The Frog and The Nightingale’ by Vikram Seth is an apologue. The poem uses a Knavish Frog and a Gullible Nightingale to aesthetically present the parody on the modern society. The story revolves around the nightingale, immensely gifted and equally insecure, shamelessly exploited by devious frog. It Ultimately resulted in the demise of the bird with the frog regaining his earlier stature as the Bog sole’s SINGER.

5. About The Author Vikram Seth is an Indian poet, novelist, travel writer, librettist, children's writer, biographer and memoirist. Vikram Seth was born on 20 June 1952 to Leila and Prem Seth in Calcutta (now Kolkata). His family lived in many cities including the Bata Shoe Company town of Batanagar , Danapur near Patna, and in London.

6. He has received several awards including Padma Shri , Pravasi Bharatiya Samman , WH Smith Literary Award and Crossword Book Award. He attended St. Xavier's High School. Seth spent part of his youth in London and returned to India in 1957. His family lived in many cities including the Bata Shoe Company town of Batanagar , Danapur near Patna, and in London.

7. One Night a NIGHTINGALE came. Croak Croak Uff tat’s so irritating

8. Her melodious voice stole everybody’s heart except the frog who was jealous He than decided to introduce himself to the sweet bird What’s a melodious encore To divine

9. He promised nightingale to make her superstar of jungle and started giving her training. And so nightingale became more and more popular day by day and frog who was getting rich was jealous of her too. Who are you Its me the owner of this tree, and am the baritone of this area I will train you and soon u will be a great melody of this area. Oh really.

10. And so the frog made her to practice continuously due to which she got tired and her voice also got affect. The audience was really shocked when nightingale sang and they went away.

11. Because of poor audience The frog scolded nightingale due to which she lost her confidence. And get depressed and continuously exploited by frog. Sa re ga ma pa dha ni sa Sa…..—re ..— ga …huh What’s wrong to her voice.

12. Depressed Timid Unconfident What’s wrong to you. How badly you have performed today. Sorry ….so sorry

13. She practiced continuously and at the end burst her vein and unfortunately she died And the frog became the unrivalled king of the bog. THE END

14. Summary • Once upon a time, a Frog used to croak in Bingle Bog. • He used to croak without concern from morning till evening light and did not care about how other creatures felt about his singing.

15. •One night a Nightingale perched on the sumac tree and held the attention of the whole bog with her melodious voice. •The Frog introduced himself to her as a famous singer and critic, and offered to train her to hone her singing. •The Nightingale was flattered and accepted, hoping to become a master musician like him. •The Frog organised her concerts regularly and minted a lot of money. .

16. •She was going more and more popular. Everybody there use to appreciate her voice. •He made her practice day and night, even in the rain, straining her vocal cords. •The Nightingale lost the natural charm of her music and the audience started dwindling due to her uninspired performances. •The Nightingale was now terrified of failure and trembled at the thought of being told off by the Frog. She overexerted her vocal cords, burst a vein and died.

17. •Though outwardly, the Frog did condole her death, inwardly he was very happy that he had got rid of her. He called the Nightingale stupid for being so gullible and simple-minded and accused her of not singing her own original songs just as he did. •Once again the crass cacophony of the Frog blared out from the sumac tree. He had become the unrivalled singer of the bog again.

18. Character Sketches FROG words that can be used to describe the Frog are: Boastful, Possessive, Patronizing, Persuasive, Arrogant, Authoritative, Heartless, Dismissive, Critical, Imposing, Commanding, Calculative, Crafty, Ambitious, Overbearing, Deceitful, Repulsive and Dominating.

19. NIGHTINGALE words that can be used to describe the Nightingale are:   Polite, Shy, Timid, Honest, Meek, Melodious, Gentle, Benevolent, Humble, Sweet, Beautiful, Foolish, Innocent, Naïve, Scared, Fawning, Servile, Submissive, Simple and Generous.

20. Moral The nightingale, when she first arrived in the bog, had a beautiful, original voice that all the bog loved.  She enjoyed her singing; it made her happy.  The frog, jealous and greedy, seized upon her innocence and found a way to both make money and to rid himself of his competition.   He took her talent and attempt to perfect it. In a sense, he attempted to fix what wasn't broken.  He made singing unpleasant for her, forced her into multiple practice sessions in poor conditions.  Finally, these sessions killed her. There will always be someone willing to take away a person's beauty and joy.  Most people do not understand that a coach is pushing for personal fame or a parent is pushing to relive his youth through a child until it is too late.  The result could be hatred of a sport one first loved, injury, or even death.

21. Poetic device Alliteration :  Bingle bog dusk to dawn crass cacophony Night a Nightingale Toads and teals and tiddlers   Art and adoration Songs for silver Better billings Birds and beasts   Personification:   Animals and birds have been personified and they have been given human like characteristics. Allegory: The poet allegorizes the corrupt face of the modern world where greed, fame and competition outweigh the ethics and values Repetition:   awn and awn and awn ko-ash, ko-ash Metaphor:    Mozart in disguise Solitary loon Irony:   The poet makes use of irony to enliven the craftiness of the Frog.

22. Questions Q1) Where did the Frog croak? In Bingle Bog Q2) What kind of reaction did the animals display to the frog's song? They hated it Q3) What did the frog claim to be? The owner of the sumac tree Q4) In which weather does the nightingale not prefer to sing? Rainy weather Q5)The birds and beasts stopped coming to the concert because the nightingale's song ___ Was uninspired