BY Pragyansharma Polavarapu
INTRODUCTION
People all over the world in this modern age
are getting awakened and may wish to develop modern literature of high cultural
and spiritual value in their mother tongues their own languages.
Quite many in modern world also developed interest in old classical English literature
---the many outstanding novels examining human psychology, the most beautiful poems of Wordsworth, Shelley , Keats, Byron and the like, dramas of Shakespeare, old novels
of Sir Walter Scott , Charles Dickens,Thomas Hardy and the like , old writings of HGWells and Sir
Arthur Connan Doyle and the like . A few
such people may feel that such old English literature may be among the first
eligible to create a modern world
literature for coming centuries. Such books form a
treasure trove of great beauty, art and intellect.
Here let us also know the general desire of
many millions of common people of this
earth(many hundreds of millions) ---that the planet in coming centuries should become a
heaven where there will be only greatest
affection and love between peoples of all religions, languages, races and
countries and where there will be no horrible
wars.
I write here only as an outsider with a very little
knowledge about England. I only wish to create interest in outsiders like me
about the beauty of old English literature . I wish to tell a little about England (British Isles)—its
geography, and history .
I wish
to write l only from a scientific, international and global view point .Let us for a moment forget, living
for a while on the spiritual plane, the bad events that occurred in the world
during the last 500-600 years . Let us pray for birth of a new world of love, peace
and high morality for the entire human race.
ANGLOSAXONS –CREATORS OF ENGLISH
LANGUAGE
Now to the main topic .In England there are minor Celtic languages in Scotland, Ireland ,Wales
of the united kingdom of England and in the Republic of Ireland . The people lovingly protect those ancient
Celtic languages . Yet, the people in
all these parts of British Isles as a whole accepted English language as the language for whole country. English is a modern global language. The people realized that English is a most powerful international language
widely spoken all over the world. It is highly
developed in many respects—science ,literature,
arts, philosophy, banking, diplomacy, international relations ,daily use in different
technologies ,use in computer science etc. English is recognized as carrier of modern industrial and
technological culture and as the language
of a people who nurtured Parliamentary Democracy
through centuries of struggle and as possessor
of beautiful centuries- old classical literature.
Since ancient days ,since aout 1500 years ,British
isles had people of two slightly different cultures –the Celtic people and the Anglo-Saxons people. Each had different customs and cultural history for
long centuries but both belong to the
same Aryan ethnic group of Europe. In
Ireland the second island one part forms the Irish Republic and the other is a province
of the kingdom of England.
About one thousand five hundred years ago(i.e.
around 500 AD), the Anglo-Saxon people who
originally lived for centuries in their ancient German homelands in Europe migrated to British Isles. In the begining they
were only a small group --perhaps a few hundred thousand. In Northern Europe
near their ancient homelands melting polar ice caused frequent flooding.
The people decided to migrate to nearby Britain
across the little section of the sea.
We can picturize in mind how the ancient Angles, Saxons and Jutes ( who collectively
are called as Anglo-Saxons ) might have first
brought hundreds of their armed men in boats in probing attacks and then
came
in big groups to settle. They were enamored by the beauty of the land
,rainy lush green landscape and low hills and undulating up and down green
meadows . They also saw there were periods of days of sunlight with blue skies
and fluffy masses of white clouds and then periods of rainy days and slate colored skies.
They started to settle in England around 500 AD
after
the powerful Roman imperial armies who had controlled southern England for nearly
four long centuries (43AD to 410AD) lost their interest in keeping the British Isles .This
was mainly because of frequent attacks
by the rebellious and warlike Celts who were living for centuries all over the British
Isles before the Anaglo-Saxons . British Isles were the wild northern frontier of the Roman Empire.
The Anglo-Saxons
settled near to rivers and seaside wetlands
. At some places they had to drain away water and at some places build seawalls to keep the sea out. Many people were engaged
in fisheries .In
upland areas small-scale farms were built
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