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Saturday 12 September 2020

5 POINTS ON THE POEM “AN OLD WOMAN”


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1.    Arun Balkrishna Kolatkar (1932-2004) was a poet from Maharastra, India. His first book of English poetry, “Jejuri”, is a collection of 31 poems pertaining to a visit of his to a religious place with the same name, Jejuri in Maharastra; the book won commonwealth writer’s prize in 1977.

2.    His work “An Old Woman” – a poem gives an account of a commonplace experience of a tourist who visits a pilgrim centre on the hills. He is accosted by an old woman, a self- appointed tourist guide who insists on showing the place.

3.    The poem begins with a commonplace experience, but ends in a revelation. He observes that everything is in a state of decay and the old woman is the representative of the degradation of humanity.

4.    The poem brings out the callousness of a society which is increasingly materialistic and inhuman.

5.    The stark reality of things hit him hard, which was trigged by the encounter with the old woman.

https://www.poetrynook.com/poem/old-woman

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