Fame & Friendship

                       
                       Fame and friendship poem
                         
                                             Written by Henry Austin Dobson



     Introduction:
                        Henry Austin Dobson
                         born : 18 January 1840
                         died:.  2 September 1921.
               H.A Dobson was an English poet and essayist. Sometimes referred to as Austin Dobson.he wrote articles for the"Dictionary of National Biography and the list on this page is complete to 1901.
             
                  "  One loyal friend is worth ten thousand
                                              Relative "


         

         FAMOUS WORK

            A dead letter
            To Ehel
             When there is peace


     LIST OF WORKS
         
            A garden song
            A kiss
            More poets yet!


                 "One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives."


       
    Introduction of poem
   
                           
                            FAME AND FRIENDSHIP is written by H.A. Dobson here poet wants to convey that fame is not as good  as friendship. Fame is immortal and friendship is mortal. If we compare first stanza with second we know the poet shown the reality of life.


FIRST STANZA:
     
                     "FAME is the food that dead men eat,
                  I have no stomach for such meat."
 
                   
                   Above lines speaks about that there is no value of fame is like food that dead man eat. Why poet compare fame with dead men ? Because one day fame will die with person. This poem sings song of friendship . Fame is the thing which every person sought for. People can do anything to be famous.


                  But here poet says that friendship is for better than fame.


                       In these poet talks about fame . He says that fame is food that dead man eat. Fame comes after hardship and people admire you. Fame embraces only a few among the exceptional. The meaning of this is that people value person after death.


Second stanza

            " But Friendship is a nobler thing,
            Of friendship it is good to sing."


                     Friendship is connects one person to the other . So many ideas, thought, feelings, emotion share by friendship and it is the bridge that connects our relations.


                      Now in second stanza, poet describes how friendship is better than fame . In last part of life when death comes man recalls memory of friendship it was better part of life and his friend makes funeral of his friend.  Means in friendship faults are forgotten and only good part is to be remembered. So it is better than fame.



              "Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness."



CONCLUSION

             F- orgive you
             R- respect you
             I- nvolve you
             E- ncourage you
             N-eed you
             D- eserve you
             S- upport you

                           At last we can say that friendship is better then fame. Fame is for short time and friendship is till the end of the life.