How do the ideas conveyed in the poem blue bead relate to the society today?
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The Cold Within' by James Patrick Kinney is a telling document on the way people think and act in our society. Kinney wrote it during the early years of Civil Rights movement and it shows the sentiments of the embittered poet due to the racial discrimination prevalent in the society. "The Cold Within a parable about the things that separate us and how the coldness in men’s hearts is a kind of death."
By the example of a group of six people sitting around a fire holding a stick each, Kinney allows the reader to know the psyche of each of them. How each of them gives in to prejudice and holds back his stick to let the fire go on. The white hates the black and the rich is contemptuous of the poor. Their hatred is stronger than the genuine need of the hour, i.e. to let the fire go on. The message was so powerful, the poem took on a life of its own.
Even today, after so many decades, the condition has not changed much. Basically, the human nature never changes. These days, according to the government policy, each school has to give admission to the students of EWS, i.e. economically weaker sections of the society. The prejudice that the so-called rich, sophisticated and classy people hold is so evident from the groups made within a class where they don't even like to share tiffins or treat them as equals. Truly the cold within us is the basic reason of the death of humanity which we see every day all around us.
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