Analyse the theme of the poem ANY WOMEN keeping in view the plight of women in the Indian social scenario in long answer type
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Analysis of the poem:
All the metaphorical images in the poem revolve around the central metaphor of a house and underline the proposition that a house and a mother are synonymous. A house is a house only when there is a mother. But her value is often not understood until she is lost.
Images of pain and suffering abound in ‘Any Woman’ and point to the hardships and burdens that a mother has to bear for her children. The pillars that bear the weight, the keystone that bears the tension, the fire that burns itself, the knot of the ring that is twisted by force, and the mother bird that sheds its soft feathers underline the selfless suffering that motherhood involves.
W.B Yeats has always voiced his opinion that Katharine Tynan is at her best when she expresses her own affectionate nature, or her religious feeling, either directly or indirectly. Both these feelings find expression in ‘Any Woman’.
Even though the poem reflects Katharine Tynan’s belief that the woman is the central figure in a family, it has nothing to do with her view of her own mother. Tynan was essentially a father’s child and ‘Any Woman’ shows the great affection that the poet had for her children. As her own daughter remembers, “she had, as mother, that rare and indefinable and most precious of all gifts, that lights a fire on the hearth, a lamp in the window, for the children coming home to her… lifting her eyes from the writing pad to meet those of a child coming for comfort to where it was never refused.”
So it is a true mother speaking out for every single mother who has rocked and crooned her little ones to sleep.
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