On The Eve Of His Execution

Literal Comprehension:

The poet is young but he is not happy. There is no sign of happiness. His life is full of pain. His corn field is covered with unwanted plant. Even though he is alive, he feels as if he is dead. He is going to be executed. As a young man, he has several years more to live, but because of his execution, everything is destroyed. He is left ignored and is not cared. His story is known to all, but nobody has spoken on behalf of him. He feels that his life is over. He could do several more things but doesn't have the time. He has the entire necessary requirement needed for life, but also he could not live longer. It is because; he is caught for his plot. As a youth, he has several wishes but his life is getting a full stop. He is completely destroyed i.e. he is going to be executed very soon.

Interpretation

The poet is trying to express the inner feeling of a young and healthy man who is going to be executed. The poet is living the remaining moment of life strongly. It shows how a person thinks when he knows that his death is following him. The oncoming death has made him observe his whole life. . He evaluates what life has given him. As his execution is unexpected everything in his life is unexpected and unnatural. It also tells that, a person who goes against the law is punished bitterly. It might be trying to tell us that everyone in the earth has a desire to live longer. People are really upset and feel regret if they have to die in younger age. Execution and feeling of death kills the inner desire of a person. It might be trying to tell us that we must do good things during our prime youth. If we do bad things, we may have to regret in future when we are near to death. It tells us that realization of death is very painful for a person. Unknown death might not impact on our psyche, but known death leads us feel frustrated and tortured.

Critical Thinking

The poem "On The Eve Of His execution" is very beautifully composed poem. It is an elegy. Its natural and skillful presentation has made it a marvelous piece in literature. It is true that everyone in the earth fear when they know about their death. They can't imagine anything creative because their mind is full of depression. Even though, the poem is marvelously written, I find some of the contradicting thoughts here. The narrator aimed to kill the queen. Planning to kill the queen is itself a crime. Before preparing such plan, he should be mentally prepared either to success the plan or tackle the death. Why does he fear with death now? If death was painful and fearful, why did he involve in crime? A person should have an ability to accept the truth. If he can't live longer then he can die with self-respect. Why is he crying like a looser?

Assimilation

After reading this poem I had known the death more closely. I knew that everyone has love for himself/herself, so do I. If we commit a crime, its result is surely bitter. Sooner or later, the person will get the punishment. It reminded me the law of a nation, where a person got a death penalty for a rape case. The person was regretting a lot in front of the girl and king that he won't repeat it again. But nobody heard him and gave the death penalty. The person was only 23 years old. So, I feel that, we should not make involve ourselves in crime. But if we are doing something for better future of our nation and if opposition is killing us then we should not regret for the death rather we accept with pride and need to be ready to be martyr.

Similarly, I also remember, once I was serious ill because of heart attack. At that time when I felt difficulty to breathe, sever pain in heart together with the pain inside my whole body, I thought that it was my last time to be alive. I vividly remember my family members and thought how my parents and wife will feel when I die. However, later luckily I am saved after 6 days treatment in CCU at the hospital.