discuss how the poem inklings from the dark ends at a note of hope
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poem “Inkling from Darkness” it is an English rendering of a Kashmiri poem “Pai Tche
Zulmati Vuzan” by Rehman Rahi, a veteran poet and professor of Kashmiri and emeritus at
Kashmir University. It is metaphysical poem focusing, most probably, on the age old concept
of the apparent and timely triumph of “Evil or vice” on “Good or virtue”, but ultimate
inevitable and everlasting victory of the good—the virtue.
The poem begins on a depressing and pessimists note with violence and bloodshed as its
main features but ends on an optimistic note promise bright and beautiful future.
An eagle ( Symbol of tyranny and evil) is espied by the poet in his dream carrying a dove (
symbolizing innocence and virtue) in its tyrannous claws and its cruel beak busy in pulling
out and shedding innocent victim’s feathers over hill tops together with blood dripping from
its hapless body. He over turns his head on the pillow but is horrified still more by sighting a
deep dark chasm. The horror of the dream drives off the poet’s sleep and he sits up in his
bedpost resting his back against the wall with the chill of the winter settling in the marrow of
his bones. It forces him to pull up the quilt to combat the cold but the Kangri gets over turned
and its cold down ashes cover his feet intensifying his discomfiture still further. His horror is
intensified when he looks up and finds a cat sitting upon the peg on which he had hung his
Pheran before going to sleep. To add to the gloom and despair, he feels incomprehensible
and unintelligible whisperings going on outside the windowpanes and an owl hooting “ O
vow to you”. It sends a shiver of terror and fear through his spine and carries his discomfiture
to unbearable limits.
Suddenly he remembers his son having gone to sleep while listening to his bed time tale
about the travails of an oyster trying to bring forth a pearl. The poet jumped off his bed post,
switched on the lights and heaved a sigh of relief on finding him in deep slumber resembling
a mushroom on a mound with pleasing, innocent smile brightening up his face and drops of
sweat shining like pearls on his forehead. He surmises that the child must be dreaming of
oyster bringing forth the pearl. Thus the poem ends on a happy note with a promise of bright and beautiful future full of hope