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THE TALE OF MELON

                                               CITY  -  VIKRAM  SETH
                                               SETH


                                It is about the governance where people carry

                                the orders of their ruler (king) with absolute

                                submission. It is a humorous poem which is
                                both ironical and satirical.




                                                                          REACTION OF THE PEOPLE -People
     KING – JUST AND PLACID                              KING
                                                                          are happy with the melon as their king
     BELIEVES IN INSTANT JUSTICE .KING’S                 MELON            as long as their freedom is not
     DECISION TO BUILD AN ARCH.THE ARCH                                   curtailed or the MELON remains non-
     KNOCKS DOWN HIS CROWN. ORDERS  FOR                  AS THE           interfering.
     IMMEDIATE    PUNISHMENT.  CALLS THE
     PEOPLE   WHO   BUILD  THE ARCH.                     KING



                                                                     As per the custom the man who
       LABOURERS BLAME THE MASON, HE                                 enters the city gate first will decide

       BLAMES THE ARCHITECT,  ARCHITECT                              the king.

       BLAMES THE KING.
                                                                     It was a mad man who enters the
       ULTIMATELY   the king understands                             gate and when asked to name the
       that he should be beheaded.                                   new king, he says MELON as he


       So he stops it at once and wants to                           loves melon.

       seek the advice of the wisest man in                          With all ceremony a melon is made

       the kingdom. Ministers go out in                              the king.
       pursuit of the wisest man.






       The wisest man they sought was a                            Unfortunately it was the king who

       very old and lame man.                                      was hanged.


       He was selected by the virtue of age.                       Selection of new king .


       As per his advice a nook is arranged


       A man who fits in it will be hanged.
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