What does the phrase the harvest of my womb refer to the darmers wife?
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Question :--- What does the phrase the harvest of my womb refer to the darmers wife ?
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The phrase ‘harvest of my womb’ refers to the four children the woman has borne. Just as the field produces the crop and has the harvest, the woman has produced children. If she, like her husband, takes the easier way out by committing suicide, the children will be left behind like the ‘worm-eaten cotton pod.’
The woman makes it clear that if the children do not have the parent figure to nourish them they would be like the unripe cotton pods. They cannot reach their mature stage of growth.
The poet deliberately uses the simile which compares the orphaned children to worm-eaten cotton pod because it was in cotton-growing areas that the highest number of farmers committed suicide.