The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (Complete Analysis)

Complete analysis of the Rubaiyat. :)

1. Take a Risk! Rules: One player will voluntarily raise his hand and answer the jumbled word. Failure to volunteer in each flashed words will lose someone else's turn. Each is given 10 seconds to guess the answer. One answer is required and should be the first and final. Choose carefully. DOGO CULK! 

2. Culture of the Country: Polygamy is legal in Iran, and men can marry up to four wives. Once married, a girl can no longer go to high school. The marriage age of girls is currently 13, up from 9 years old after the Revolution. Boys may marry at 15, the legal age Iranians can vote .

3. If a girl in Iran is sexually abused or harassed, blame typically falls on the girl’s mother, for not protecting her daughter, much more than on the offender . They believe in AFTERLIFE. INDYEST

4. Comparison to Philippine Culture: Feast days involves drinking alcohol. We both consider heaven and hell In Muslim culture they practice Polygamy. If we read the bible or reflect it with HIS presence we would attain honor and happiness.

5. Connection to other Disciplines: History: Origin of the Species Natural Selection

6. First Wine? Archaeologist Traces Drink to Stone Age Expert on the origins of ancient wine and a leader in the emerging field of bio molecular archaeology. Through a combination of archaeological sleuthing and chemical analysis, that the history of wine extends to the Neolithic period (8,500-4,000 B.C.) and the first glimmerings of civilization.

7. Science: Life- characteristic distinguishing physical entities having signaling and self-sustaining processes from those that do not, either because such functions have ceased (death), or because they lack such functions and are classified as inanimate.

8. Health Benefits Of Drinking Alcohol It Can Lower Your Risk Of Cardiovascular Disease It Can Lengthen Your Life It Can Improve Your Libido It Helps Prevent Against the Common Cold It Can Decrease Chances Of Developing Dementia It Can Reduce The Risk Of Gallstones Lowers The Chance Of Diabetes

9. Death- is the cessation of all biological functions that sustain a living organism. Phenomena which commonly bring about death include biological aging , predation , malnutrition , disease, suicide, homicide and accidents or trauma resulting in terminal injury . ATEMTPOINT

10. The effects of abusive alcohol consumption High levels of alcohol consumption are associated with an increased risk of alcoholism , malnutrition , chronic pancreatitis , alcoholic liver disease , and cancer . In addition, damage to the central nervous system and peripheral nervous system can occur from chronic alcohol abuse and can lead to DEATH .

11. Why Do We Get Emotional When We Drink ? Alcohol impacts every organ system in the body. As more drinks are consumed , The limbic system, a set of six inner structures tucked under the cerebrum, is believed to be the emotional center of the brain and is tasked with controlling our emotions and behavior, and forming long-term memories .

12. Statistics:

13. Top Ten Countries With Highest Birth Rate (2012) Rank Country Birth Rate (Birth/1000 population) 1 Niger 47.60 2 Mali 46.60 3 Uganda 45.80 4 Burkina Faso 43.20 5 Zambia 43.10 6 Somalia 42.12 7 Burundi 40.58 8 Malawi 40.42 9 Republic of Congo 40.09 10 Angola 39.36

14. Death Rate:

15. Rank Country Death Rate (Death/1000 population) 1 South Africa 17.23 2 Ukraine 15.76 3 Lesotho 15.18 4 Chad 15.16 5 Guinea-Bissau 15.01 6 Central African Republic 14.71 7 Afghanistan 14.59 8 Bulgaria 14.55 9 Somalia 14.32 10 Swaziland 14.21 Top Ten Countries With Highest Death Rate (2012)

16. Definition of Terms: Hedonism - excessive pleasure Cessation - termination Sleuthing - investigating Audacious - risky Antidote - remedy, cure HOMDESIN

17. Synopsis/Summary : There is God accepted rule and law, by choice, we are going through a path either success or failure. Both require celebration, getting drunk on a good path make us certain about our future. Be righteous. Conserve your time efficiently; make yourself do what should be done. Remember that experiences which are not reflected are easily forgotten.

18. On the other hand, getting wasted on the wrong path attracts temptation to create a sin. Those are referred to as forbidden rule. In these dark times, you will stumble and fall, be broken—worst? Die in agony and regrets. But rejoice True-Believers! For the Lord who will open his door and will offer his life for Man’s forgiveness. FLELUNTMILF

19. Genre: Persian POETRY form of “ rubai” ( quatrains) SEUCSCS

20. Universality: Human Ups and Downs Temptations/ Failures Success Life Death

21. Author: Background Omar Khayyam (1048-1122) -a Persian Mathematician, philosopher, astronomer and poet

22. Reason why he wrote this masterpiece: His love of wine (a drink which drove sorrow from the heart, as he composed his poetry) and his hedonism so publicly demonstrated in his poetry was audacious for his time. TIBRET

23. Translator: Edward FitzGerald (1809-1883) - an English poet and writer -made five editions of Omar Khayyam’s Rubaiyat -first published in 1859

24. Symbolism: HEAVEN - fulfilled desire 67 th rubai Heav'n but the Vision of fulfill'd Desire, And Hell the Shadow of a Soul on fire, Cast on the Darkness into which Ourselves, So late emerg'd from, shall so soon expire. HELL - soul on fire

25. WINE symbolizes the water of life. 43 rd rubai And if the wine you drink, the Lip you press End in what All begins and ends in — Yes; Think then you are today what yesterday you were — Tomorrow you shall not be less.

26. MOVING FINGER -symbolizes fate/destiny 70 th rubai The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line , Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it. ITEM

27. Figures of speech : Alliteration - repetition of initial sounds in neighboring words 1st rubai 1- AWAKE! for Morning in the Bowl of Night   2 - Has fl ung the  St one that puts the  St ars to Fl ight:   3 - And Lo! the Hunter of the East has caught   4 - The Sultan's Turret in a Noose of Light

28. Repetition -use of the same word(s) more than once in close proximity within a verse 25 th rubai 1- Ah , make the most of what we yet may spend, 2- Before we too into the Dust descend; 3- Dust into Dust , and under Dust to lie, 4- Sans Wine, sans Song, sans Singer, and — sans End! GHORITUES

29. Internal Rhyme- rhymes and inverse rhymes involving non-ultimate syllables. 68th rubai 1 - For in and  out , above, ab out , below,  2 - 'Tis nothing but a Magic Shad ow -sh ow ,   3 - Play'd in a Box whose Candle is the Sun,  4 - Round which we Phantom Figures come and go.

30. Extreme Contrast - dramatic juxtaposition of diametric opposites 8th rubai 1 - Whether at Naishapur or Babylon,   2 - Whether the Cup with  sweet  or  bitter  run,   3 - The Wine of Life keeps oozing drop by drop,   4 - The Leaves of Life keep falling one by one.

31. Plot: Man in a Road 64 th rubai Strange, is it not, that of the myriads who Before us passed the door of Darkness through, Not one returns to tell us the road, Which to discover we must travel, too?

32. Narrator’s Point of View: First Person: 66 th rubai 1- I sent my Soul through the invisible, 2- Some letter of that After-life to spell; 3- And by and by my Soul returned to me , 4- And answered, “ I myself am Heaven and Hell.”

33. 2 nd Person 53 rd rubai 1- But if in vain down on the stubborn floor 2- Of Earth, and up to heaven’s unopening door 3- You gaze Today, while You are – You , how then 4- To-morrow You , when shall be You no more?

34. Third Person 92 nd rubai 1- O Thou, who Man of baser earth didst make, 2- And even with Paradise devise the Snake, 3- For all the sin wherewith the face of Man 4- Is blackened, Man’s forgiveness give- and take!

35. Characters: I (narrator) You Man Dynamic and Round

36. Setting: Nishapur , Pilgrimage to Mecca,1092 VEFSORGISNE

37. Theme: 36 th rubai Then the lip of this poor earthern urn I leaned the secret of my life to learn And lip to lip it murmurd -While you live drink! For once dead you never shall return

38. “ Carpe Diem ” - Seize the Day and make the most of it, it will never return. “Learn from your Failures , enjoy your Life and be Happy for you cannot turn back the Time ”.

39. Mamnoon ! ممنون (Thank you)