Four Levels of  On The Eve of His Execution

The four levels of On The Eve of His Execution can be interpreted in the following four headings:
1. Literal Comprehension
2. Interpretation
3. Critical Thinking
4. Assimilation

 1. Literal Comprehension

The poem ‘On The Eve of His Execution’ starts with the poet telling that he doesn’t have any time. So he asks the death not to call him. The poet doesn’t have time to mop around his problems not even from the blood that is dripping from his broken head.

He is pleading the last not to detain my advancing feet which are marching. It doesn’t have any time for these types of blandishments to block him because his people need him. The people of his country are fighting for freedom and canceling their meal for it. The poet is asking to look at this scene.

2. Interpretation

The poem was written by being drowned in the love for the country; in the patriotism. The need for the country to prosper seems so much that the poet seems ready to sacrifice his family by fighting to the death.

In the context of fighting for the country, the poet and every other people of the country are fighting for their freedom, through this they are trying to overthrow the Rana regime. The craving for freedom and desperation of the Oe is depicting the poem telling that they are even canceling their meals for it.

3. Critical Thinking

This poem ‘On The Eve of His Execution’ beautifully shows the pleas of the poet towards the death not to take him since he is fighting for the country. But the question is:

• Why is the poet referring to the death of a ‘Lady’? Couldn’t that be a man, too?
• Did the people of that time really sacrifice their food and meal?
• Can people be so selfless in the search of freedom?

 4. Assimilation

It is said that right now we are living in the safest time on the earth in case of all the wars and genocide that has happened before. This poem has made me realize what our ancestors and martyr had to fight and go through for us to now live in peace and harmony. Through this, I have learned that we should always speak for our rights and freedom. And on the top, we should always live in our country.