Sindhi old man smiling photo by Ghulam Raza Almani/Badin.Pakistan

The Representation and Symbolism of Old Age in Literature

Raging and the symbolic representations of the elderly have been creative stimuli for artworks, literature, and the performing arts since their inception. The topic has been treated in a picturesque, delicate, and fancy way in classical antiquity, the Renaissance, the Modern Era, and especially the Gothic movements, illuminated by great authors who have reached the sources of creation in old age. The way in which they have analysed the differences in the psychological and mental structure of the

FRAGRANCE OF TRANQUILITY

The poem is talking about the memories of the old days or the past where everything seems to be tranquil at its peak. People smile even after being hit or after facing comflict footings without any slam of war. The poem talks about union and smile at the reach of peace in stanza 2. Although we might by some chances face war but it has not stopped us from progressing in harmony. At the end the poet persona makes use of a suggestion and a wish–He wishes to find the old days where harmony lives in Tranquility. Read and enjoy more of having tranquility 💙

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MY JOURNEY AS A CHILD by Richie Kharis

I came into the world with my hands folded. Yet they welcomed me with laughter and danced the sorrow away for tomorrow. Soon, I could no longer walk with my four legs, I became a little star, running around the field with two legs. I sat inside a rolling box as we journeyed to the east not bold to tell anything about the strong black feet on-road miles I could only ask why the other stars ate with their fingers stained because I was born with a golden nail. Sooner or later, days turn into years,

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