Question

In the poem'The Banyan Tree' , what technique has been used in the quote 'Black shadow would wriggle on the water like sleep struggling to wake up' ?​

Answer 1

Answer:

you shaggy-headed banyan tree standing on the bank of the pond,

have you forgotten the little child, like the birds that have nested

in your branches and left you?

Do you not remember how he sat at the window and wondered

at the tangle of your roots and plunged underground?

The women would come to fill their jars in the pond,

and your huge black shadow would wriggle on the water

like sleep struggling to wake up.

Sunlight danced on the ripples like restless tiny shuttles

weaving golden tapestry.

Two ducks swam by the weedy margin above their shadows,

and the child would sit still and think.

He longed to be the wind and blow through your resting branches,

to be your shadow and lengthen with the day on the water,

to be a bird and perch on your topmost twig, and to float like

those ducks among the weeds and shadows.

I have always loved this simple Tagore poem ,so full of pretty images. Nice to think of the birds that have nested in the shaggy hair of the banyan and left it. Come to think of it ,the banyan has lost count of the birds that have nested in her hair,made it shaggy and left for other trees,other skies. The banyan has forgotten all of them,standing on the bank of the pond.

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