Question

It never forgot and twenty years since as I consigned may first bo4n to the glame

Answer 1

Answer:

Given extract is taken from the poem by K. N. Darulwala's poetry "Fire-Hymn."

Explanation:

The poet describes his experience at burning ghat. One day he visits this ghat with his father and watch a half burnt body being cremated on the funeral pyre. Burning of a dead body is a Hindu ritual. He thinks that burning of a body is an inhuman act. Daruwala is a parsi. And in parsi custom, dead body are taken to the "Tower of Silence." The poet recalls that twenty years ago he consigned his first-born child to flames because the nearest "Tower of Silence" was one-miles away.

"It never forgot, and twenty years since

as I consigned my first-born to the flames--

the nearest Tower of Silence was a thousand miles..."

In the end he repents for his inhuman kind of act towards his first-born.