" Now these hills have grown on me " from line A poem for mother ... here why "these hills" is used in poem?
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WHICH POEM????
I THINK THESE HILLS WORD IS REFERING TO HILLS
Answer:
"These hills" is used in the poem to describe the poet's homeland.
Explanation:
" Now these hills have grown on me " is taken from "A Poem For Mother" by Robin Singh Ngangom.
"Palem Apokpi, mother who gave birth to me,
to be a man how I hated leaving home ten years ago.
Now these hills have grown on me.
But I’m still your painfully shy son
with a ravenous appetite,
the boy who lost many teeth after
emptying your larder. And
I am also your dreamy-eyed lad
who gave you difficult times
during his schooldays, romancing
every girl he wanted, even
when he still wore half-pants."
The first stanza records the poet’s homecoming from exile, and the pathetic attempt to reclaim his boyhood and adolescence. He is pained by the realization that his homeland has grown alien to him. Yet there was no other way – the paradox faces children of the hills that they must leave home and community to be educated and find a place in the larger world. This involves the loss of their individual and communal identity for which they gain no alternative. He remembers the pain of going – ‘how I hated leaving home' – and that pain propels him to enliven his younger self, the growing boy bursting with instincts like hunger and sexuality. This is a desperate and pathetic attempt to step back into a lost self, yet providing some solace.