Question

The looms of bengal silenced is an example of inthe poem dacca gauzes ?

Answer 1

The reference to the impeccable texture, the refined Bengali muslin, in Agha Shahid Ali's sonnet, "The Dacca Gauzes," fills in as a similitude of loss of history and memory

The Dacca Gauzes

• The reference to the impeccable texture, the refined Bengali muslin, in Agha Shahid Ali's sonnet, "The Dacca Gauzes," fills in as a similitude of loss of history and memory. Depicting his grandma's wistfulness for this wonderful muslin and its magnificence in the lines nobody currently knows, my grandma says, what it resembled to wear that material, the speaker tends to the greatness of this workmanship.
• In the juxtaposition of the grandma's nostalgic memory, in the accompanying symbolism, the air/was dew-treated: she pulled/it absently through her ring, mirroring the ephemerality of the material, presently lost to history, with the speaker verifiable information on the unpredictable Dhaka muslins in the accompanying lines, In history, we took in:
• the hands/of weavers were excised,/the weaving machines Bengal hushed shows how the expressions and symbolism in the sonnet mirror its subjects of wistfulness and misfortune.

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Answer 2

Answer:

In the poem “The Dacca Gauzes” by Agha Shahid Ali, the phrase "The looms of Bengal silenced" is an example of hyperbole.

Explanation:

• Hyperbole is a literary device and figure of speech that intensifies its effect by intentional exaggeration.
• Hyperbole is a remark or statement that is brazenly overblown or exaggerated in order to add emphasis without the objective of being literally truthful.
• This poem by Agha Shahid Ali is about a fabric called Dacca Gauze, which he compares to woven air since it is so delicate and thin.
• It is a narrative about the poet's understanding of the 'dead craft' of weaving and his grandmother's grief over the loss of the lovely cloth.
• The poet starts by describing how thin the fabric was. He describes it as "woven air, rushing water, twilight dew."
• The craft of making such cloth was no longer practiced; it had been extinct for more than a century.
• He recalls his grandma wearing a sari in the past. He remembers that it could all be threaded through a ring and that when it tore, it was cut into tiny handkerchiefs.
• The poet is upset over the historical reality that Bengali weavers' hands were severed by the British, who then sent the cloth to England.
• Since that time, no one has been able to create a fabric of the same caliber as the Dacca gauzes.
• The grandmother's perspective is the poem's second viewpoint.
• She doesn't care much about Bengal's tragic past or how "the looms of Bengal were hushed."
• Her only regret is that the amazing Dacca gauzes are no longer available.
• She argues that "no one now knows what it was to wear or touch such material."
• The grandma frequently attempts to grab the fictitious muslin out of thin air when she is lost in her recollections.
• The poem "The Dacca Gauzes" takes the reader back to the poet's grandmother's origins and her ardent love of the vivid fabric.

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