amma poem summary by Tabish khair 3 para
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I have written long poems on my father and grandmother, but you
Have always been too real and too subtle for words.
I can describe the high arch of your soles, which makes you walk slowly,
I could tell about the saris you wear, or your girly love for bangles,
Your deep concentrated reading of the Quran with faded covers;
I could describe the intricate dishes you would cook, pullao, firni,
Before my father, hurt by a hard place, bewildered by his sons,
Became a partial recluse in the garden he had planted for you
(And that you took care of, despite water-shortages, and still do).
I could tell about how difficult it is to get your fingerprint now
With the whorls of your fingers worn away by kitchen work,
Or the shakarparas you make every time I visit to take
To my children who do not speak your softly reclining language.
But nothing I say will ever be you, my words on you are futile
As the fingerprints that electronic devices fail to exhort from you:
Between your world and mine stretches the bridge of absence,
On which a word has to be selected in silence, dropped with care,
Into the unending roar of the white water rushing on below.
Answer:
The word Amma in india is referd to a mother.The poem is full of live and care of the mother. The poem shows the loving, carring and supporting side of a mother. The protagonist of the poem is the poet's grandmother.