1. How is the plight of the old woman depicted in the poem?
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The plight of the old woman depicted in the poem she is a hard working.
The old woman is not a beggar, She wants to leave by doing the work. Therefore she does the job of taking visitors to the horseshoe shrine. Though the visitor has seen it already, she hobbles along anyway and tightens her grip on his shirt.
She is very adamant, she did not let him go away. She has no other ideas expect guiding the visitors to see them.
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Arun kolatkar is a bi lingual poet. This pom is taken from jejuri a collection of his poems.
The old woman is not a beggar. She wants to live by doing work. Therefore, she does the job of taking visitors to the horse shoe shrine. Initially it seems that she is a little adamant when the speaker refuses to give her any money. But it also shows how she does not resolve to begging. She wishes to take the speaker to the horse shoe shrine in return she demands a mere 50 paise coin.
Poverty and oldage are 2 cutses that can cripple a person and make him utterly helpless. The old woman is shown as helpless women who laments saying "what else can an old woman do on hills as wretched as these?"
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