Analysis of the poem Wolf by daruwalla
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KEKI N DARUWALLA: WOLF
The Explanation of the Poem WOLFThe poem begins with a vague image of a form, a figure or silhouette lurking in thedark, in the wilderness as though it were hiding under the cover of darkness. Thisform is that of a wolf that haunted the imagination and thoughts of the poet as achild. Thus, the imagined presence of a wolf
occupied the poet‟s mind as a chi
ld as wolves were known to be hunted down at night by men. This imaginary wolf prowlsin the dark with careful and calculated movements out in the dark and falls asleep ona bed of leaves, by resting its snout on its paws. The presence of the wolf (whether it
is in the dark outside the poet‟s home or in the poet‟s
imagination) happens to stirup an amazing sense of wonder and bewilderment in him. The poet describes theradiating presence of the wolf to a lit fire and to an unknown or unknowable myth.The mysterious form of a wolf (in trouble) captures the mind of the
child in a very powerful way that it seeps („nudges‟) into the consciousness
of thechild. You may very well imagine how certain mysterious aspects create a deepimpression and reside in the crater of the mind in little children for a very long time.In the same way, the poet reminisces how as a child, he had been haunted by theringing cries of wolves at night. These cries were probably not the usual howling of wolves but the painful ones when they were hunted down. It might have confusedthe child on how such a splendid animal as a wolf who had the freedom of prowlingaround its territory
and hunting its own food (“wind
-sniffer, throat-
catcher”) was now
a victim of the human world suffering the fate of the
„hunted‟. Earlier, wolves were
hunted not as much for game as for human security in the villages. The
poet‟s village
home was at the edge of a forest and perhaps, for this reason the cries of the wolves were clearly audible to him as a child.In the days of his childhood, his mother would often narrate to him bed-time storiesof wolves, describing how the sensitive ears of the wolves would pick up signals orany movements in its territory at midnight, out in the cold when dewdrops fell in thesilence of the forest. You may perhaps know how animals are gifted with the sense ofsmell whether for their food or for their sense of security. The poet remembers howhis mother would tell him of wolves sniffing into his dreams and leaving in him asense of emptiness as she tries to put him to sleep. Those were the days of the poets
childhood but now there were no more wolves left in those forests as they were allkilled by ruthless men. There was no more of those haunted presence of wolves ortheir tearing cries, all the heat was left was their „absence‟alone. The dark bodies with liteyes and radiating presence were long gone with their radiating presence. All thatremained were images of smoking gunbarrels that stood for violence and bloodshedof innocent animals. The poet as a father now to a little girl is only left wonderinghow there were no more wolves to capture her dreams and imagination as they were in his time
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