19th Century English Literature ||

Submitted To
Md. Ariful Islam Laskar
Assistant Professor
Department of English
Daffodil International University

Submitted By
Zarin Tashnim (191-10-2026)

Kazi Shahrin Akter (191-10-2000)

Kakuly Akter (191-10-1992)

46c
Department of English
Daffodil International University

Topic: Poem “Tithonus’’

Script
Chorus: See, here is Tithonus, the prince of Troy, the son of King Laomedon
and the beloved of Goddess Aurora. Eos, or Aurora, the embodiment of dawn, fell
in love with Tithonus. He was loved by Arora, and he wishes immortality. Zeus
grants his wish. But Arora forgets to tell immortal youth. Day by day, he becomes
old. Seeing the suffering of old age, he told Arora to take back immortality and tell
to grant his death.

(Young Tithonus and Goddess Aurora )

Tithonus:
Now good-morrow to our waking souls,
We dont have the fear to loose each other
For love, all love of other controls the sight of the lover
And makes one little room an everywhere.
Let us discovers new world for ourselves
Where maps wont be able to finish boundaries
Let us possess one world, each will have the one

Aurora: Where can we find two better hemispheres,

Without sharp north, without declining west?
Whatever dies, was not mixed equally;
If our two loves be one, or, thou and I
Love so alike, that none do slacken, none can die.

Tithonus: Call us what you will, we are made such by love;

Call her one, me another fly,
We die and rise the same, and prove
We are dranken by this love.
 Chorus: How innocent their love is! They are not seeing their destiny and have been
drunk in each other’s love. Oh, earth! Save their soulful love. A mortal being is
supposed to die. This is the code of nature. The union of a mortal and an immortal
being is very unnatural and suffering is unavoidable.

( Old Tithonus, Goddess Aurora )

Tithonus: The woods decay, the woods decay, and fall,

The vapors weep their burthen to the ground,
Man comes and tills the field and lies beneath,
And after many a summer dies the swan.
But I with my cruel immortality
Why Aurora ? Why your love cause such cruelty to me

Aurora : Alas! 'The Gods themselves cannot recall their gifts.'

You, Thithonus have become a grey shadow, once you were a man who was
glorious in his beauty.

Tithonus: Release me, and restore me to the ground;

thou wilt see my grave: Grant my death!

Chorus : Now Aurora has remained the same years after years and all the sea of
sadness in my tithonus's blood, flooding with the bitter memory of his love. Alas! Such
glorious love ended so pathetically. Aurora is still young and beautiful and poor tithonus
is roaming like a grey shadow on this earth. Oh, Zeus! grant his death. Years after years
of suffering, one day Zeus felt pity for King Tithonus and grant his death. Thus
love story of an immortal and mortal being ended.