Phoenix

PHOENIX
-Sylvia Townsend Warner (1893-
1978)

Sylvia Townsend
Warner
Sylvia Townsend Warner was Qn
English novelist, short story writer &
biographer. Her first and best seller
story is Lolly Willows. In 1940, she
published The Cats Cradle Book.
When she was 84 she published her
last and most remarkable book,
Kingdom of Elfin.

Major works
Novels
Lolly Willowes (1926)
Mr Fortune's Maggot (1927)
The True Heart (1929)
Summer Will Show (1936)
After the Death of Don Juan (1938)
The Corner That Held Them (1948)
The Flint Anchor (1954) (vt The Barnards
of Loseby, 1974)
Poetry collections
New Collected Poems (Carcanet Press,
2008)
Selected Poems (Carcanet Press, 1985)

Story behind phoniex
Greek mythology, a phoenix or phenix is a
long-lived bird that is cyclically regenerated
or reborn. Associated with the sun, a
phoenix obtains new life by arising from the
ashes of its predecessor. The phoenix was
subsequently adopted as a symbol in Early
Christianity. While the phoenix typically dies
by fire in most versions of the legend, there
are less popular versions of the myth in
which the mythical bird dies and simply
decomposes before being born again.

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Lord
Strawberry had
the finest
Aviary in
Europe.
All the
apartments for
birds like
eagles,
humming birds,
snow buntings
had a climate
that suited
them perfectly.
But for many
years the finest
set of
apartments
meant for
Phoenix
remained
empty.
It carried the
label “Phoenix :
Habitat :
Arabia”.

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Many scientists on
birds told the Lord
that Phoenix is a
fabulous bird which is
extinct.
But the Lord did not
belt. His family had
always believed in
Phoenixes.
Meanwhile his agents
reported of birds like
orioles, macaws,
turkey buzzards,
dyed orange etc;
saying that they were
phoenix. They sent
their statements
along with the
expense of it.

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Lord Strawberry himself went to
Arabia, found a phoenix and
brought it home. It was a
remarkable fine bird than the other
birds in the aviary. The Lord was
much attached to it. Ornithologists,
poets, journalists and millionaires
were impressed by it. They
constantly visited it. But the bird
was not attracted by these
attentions. All the time it ate well
and seemed perfectly calm.

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Lord Strawberry lost his wealth in
keeping this aviary. He died penniless.
The aviary was left to be sold. Usually,
with such a rare bird as the Phoenix, it
would have been costly but it
happened that the Lord died just after
the World War Money and bird seed
became hard things to come by.

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At first a fund called Strawberry
Phoenix Fund, was opened by
the London Zoo. To it students
and naturalists contributed
according to their ability. As their
means were small, the fund
raised was not high.

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So Lord Strawberry’s
executors who had
the death duties to
consider accepted the
offer of Mr.Tancred
Polder, owner and
proprietor of
Poldero’s Wizard
Wonderland. He
considered his
phoenix a bargain. It
adapted itself to its
new surroundings. It
makes profits to
Mr.Poldero until the
crowds began to lose
interest.

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Poldero goes on a new
venture to gain profits learning
that it will give a grand show of
flames at the end of its life. He
proceeds to age the bird
unnaturally. He didn’t give it
proper food, made it cold and
put disagreeable birds and
alley cats with it. He did all
these because its natural
environment was Arabia, a dry
place.

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When he
understood the
phoenix was
nearing death,
he called the
media to shoot
the spectacular
show of the
bird’s death and
rebirth.

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and was reborn in the
flame

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but the greedy Poldero and
viewers also died in the process.

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This story is a
satire on the
human desire
to view strange
things.
The irony is that
the crowd who
came to see the
end of the
Phoenix faced
their own death.

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THE END
THANK YOU

Phoenix

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