bosom friend summary
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The 1st stanza of the Poem Bosom Friend opens with the arrival of the poetess’ bosom friend for the first time to her small house. Hira Bansode was born in a lower class family, at that time cast prejudices are prevalent in India.
Bansode’s bosom friend came to her house for dinner, poetess fist thinks that her friend has put away all the caste prejudice before coming to her house, thus our poetess was very happy. 3rd line expose the usual attitude of upper class women to the lower class, they won’t forget that tradition of inequality. That’s why poetess says her bosom friend has a mind as large as the sky!
the 2st stanza Soon, all her imaginations started to collapse as the friend behaved quite opposite to her expectations and imaginations.when the friend came poetess thought her friend has built a bridge across the chasm of caste differences. Hira Bansode considers the casteism as a giant chasm in the earth, that divides people from being kind and friendly. Now poetess is depressed of her friend’s change in character.
poetess had arranged food on a plate with naive devotion of Shabari. In Hindu religious scripts Shabari is the one who had sincere devotion towards Rama, even though hundreds of other yogis were waiting to receive Rama in their ashrams, Rama went only to Shabari’s ashram.
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