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Importance of family described in poem Ecology

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Answer:

the poem

Explanation:

The poem

The day after the first rain,

Monsoon.

for years, I would home

in a rage,

Interesting. What are you so mad about, speaker?

for I could see from a mile away

From a mile away, on the way home

our three Red Champak Trees

OUR three red champak trees

had done it again,

meaning they've done it before

had burst into flower and given Mother

her first blinding migraine

first but not last; blinding because of the extent of the pain she's in in

of the season

these migraines last the whole season

with their street-long heavy-hung

yellow pollen fog of a fragrance

The pollen grains have made the air thick like fog - in fact the air IS yellow with it's heady scent

no wind could sift,

the breeze cannot blow away this fog

no door could shut out

and the doors cannot keep it out either. the whole street in front of them is thick with it; it will seep in through the gaps

from our black-

pillared house whose walls had ears

and eyes,

begins personifying the house

scales, smells, bone-creaks, nightly

visiting voices, and were porous

pollen will get in through the holes

like us,

self-explanatory: we will breathe in this fog of pollen

but Mother, flashing her temper

like her mother's twisted silver,

giving the mother's anger some physical quality: shiny, radiant, expressive in her temper

grandchildren's knickers

soaked, then wrung (twisted)

wet as the cold pack on her head,

wet because she was sweating - cold sweats

would not let us cut down

a flowering tree

Flowering tree. Religious significance. Bad omen.

almost as old as her, seeded,

she said, by a passing bird's

providential droppings

Taken as a blessing - came from the sky

to give her gods and her daughters

and daughters' daughters basketsful

of annual flower

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