are extensively used by A.K. Ramanujan is
Which two figures of speech
poem 'Anxiety'.
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Ramanujan puts anxiety in a process of continuity. He explains it indirectly, not directly. ‘fear’ is the kindred of anxiety. So he begins with it. The source of all tension is the individual : “........... it has loose ends/with a knot at the top/that’s me’. He explains the issues relating to anxiety through ‘water’ ‘flames’ and ‘pigeons’ and ultimately he confesses:’ but anxiety / can find no metaphor to end it.’ He cannot explain the things in a metaphoric way, rather in a metonymic process.
The poem refers to the complex Indian problems like growth of population, poverty, illiteracy, lack of hygienic sense and the problem of unemployment. ‘Fear’ is the source of all tension in the poem. Fear may be because of communal conflict, Maoism and terrorism, apparently the problems are having ‘loose ends’. The problems are not related to each other. Those may be because of the wrong policies of the government and wrong administrations also. But the buck cannot be passed to the government alone. The problems are because of the lack of individual consciousness also. That’s why the poet says that the anxieties are ‘with a knot at the top/that’s me’. To express what, in fact, anxiety redden world is the poet speaks about an anxiety less earth which is as fresh and beautiful as ‘gaiety of waters.’ Then again the pigeons are the symbols of peace. Just as the air brings freshness the pigeons also stand for happiness.