Tuesday, August 16, 2011
Muliebrity by Sujata Bhatt. I need help figuring out metaphors and imagery. Any help will do, thanks.?
The poem, unless translated into English, is in free verse and there are no specific metaphors used in the poem, although the poem itself might be considered a metaphor on the awakening of desire in an adolescent male. You might also say that "greatness and power glistening through her cheekbones" is an anthropomorphism (personification). What the poem creates is a pastoral image where sights and sounds that might normally be considered repugnant are brought to clarity to impress the reader with the intensity of the emotion surrounding the girl doing "untouchable" things...it solidifies that period of time into something tangible, raw, yet attractive because the true nature of the girl transcended what she did and the attention she put into doing it. There was something primal in her look and in the way she performed her duty that the poet found irresistibly attractive, perhaps because his hormones were racing, but it could also be because he was in tune with the nature of the situation and less concerned about the details...except that he cannot forget the details, nor can he articulate the effect they had because the description of the situation fails to elicit the same response from someone who wasn't there and in the same frame of mind.
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