Summary of postcard from kashmir
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The speaker in the poem describes his feelings after receiving a postcard from his native land- Kashmir, a region of Indian subcontinent. The postcard contains a photograph of Kashmir-a place the speaker still considers his home.
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SUMMARY
The speaker in the poem describes his feelings after receiving a postcard from his native land-
Kashmir, a region of Indian subcontinent. The postcard contains a photograph of Kashmir-a place the
speaker still considers his home. This four by six-inch photograph, is looked at with love by the speaker,
who is geographically, distant from Kashmir and lives in one of western countries.
The speaker claims that he always loved neatness- a trait that was typical of Kashmir of his
childhood days. But, the irony of the fact is expressed by his claim that he holds the half inch Himalayas in
his hand now. The enormous and massive mountain range is reduced to a small, tidy picture undesired by
the poet.
The most ambiguous line of the poem is “this is home” which either can mean the poet’s inability
to leave the place where he lives and has compromised it for his homeland.
It is glaringly clear that the ultimate aim of the poem is to express the poet’s unbounded patriotic