Question

What do the images of the river drying to a trickle and the sand ribs suggest in the poem, ' A River' by A.K. Ramanujan?​

Answer 1

Explanation:

The river drying to a trickle conveys the scorching heat of summer that dries up everything and makes life unbearably miserable with the accompanying famine and starvation. The dried river exposes the sand dunes at the bottom of the river and they bring to our mind the skeletal rib cages of a starved human being.