CRITICALLY APPRECIATE
LAMB’S DREAM CHILDREN.
Lamb’s
Dream Children: A Reverie is an essay where
Lamb not only talks of his personal sorrows but also of his joys. His keen sense of humour and pathetic
touches are scattered in this essay. Here He gives expressions to his unfulfilled longings and
desires. He readily enters into the world of fantasy and pops up stories in
front of his dream children. He relates his childhood days, of Mrs. Field, his
grandmother and John Lamb, his brother. He describes how fun he had at the
great house and orchard in Norfolk. Of his relations he gives us full and living pictures – his
brother John is James Elia of My Relations, but here is John L-, so handsome and spirited youth, and a
‘king’. John was brave, handsome and won admiration from everybody Charles’
grandmother Mrs. Field is the other living picture. She was a good natured and
religions – minded lady of respectable personality. Narrator’s sweet heart
Alice Winterton is the other shadowed reality. The Dream Children, Alice and
John are mere bubbles of fancy.
Thus Lamb’s nostalgic
memory transports us back to those good old days of great grandmother Field.
But even in those romantic nostalgia the hard realities of life does not miss
our eyes. Death, separation and suffering inject us deep-rooted pathos in our heart.
Whereas Mrs. Field died of cancer, John Lamb died in early age. Ann Simmons has
been a tale of unrequited love story of Charles Lamb. Notably the children are
millions of ages distant of oblivion and Charles is not a married man but a
bachelor having a reverie....................................................................
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