What feelings does the poet express for Kashmir in the poem ' postcard from Kashmir'.
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Answer:
“Home is where the heart is.” It is glaringly clear that the speaker’s (the poet’s) heart belongs to Kashmir, his homeland as well as a region in South Asia that suffers from on-going territorial disputes among China, India and Pakistan.
Postcard from Kashmir
by Agha Shahid Ali
Kashmir shrinks into my mailbox,
my home a neat four by six inches.
I always loved neatness. Now I hold
the half-inch Himalayas in my hand.
This is home. And this the closest
I’ll ever be to home. When I return,
the colors won’t be so brilliant,
the Jhelum’s waters so clean,
so ultramarine. My love
so overexposed.
And my memory will be a little
out of focus, in it
a giant negative, black
and white, still undeveloped.
The word ‘Shrinks’ in “Kashmir shrinks into my mailbox” (line 1) suggests that the real, grandeur Kashmir diminishes to the tiny delicate picture printed on the postcard.
Home (line 2), normal speaking, refers to a place where people are currently living in. Postcards are usually sent from a place people spend their holiday on. Yet, interestingly, for this time, the poet receives a postcard from his home, Kashmir. Apparently, the speaker has lost touch with his homeland. The ‘four-by-six-inch’ postcard simply evokes his memories towards his birthplace.
The poet highlights that he always loved neatness (3). The adjective ‘neat’ refers not only to the regular shape of the postcard but also the neat and harmonious Kashmir in the poet’s memory.
In line 3, the use of the past tense for the first and only time in the poem reveals that war-torn Kashmir is no longer as calm and peaceful as it used to be.
The speaker then switches his focus to the mere ‘half-inch’ Himalayas, which is, in reality, the most gigantic and iconic mountain range in the world. The poet deliberately uses the same kind of contrast to express the wide distance between Kashmir and where the speaker is.
Internal rhyme: “inches”, “neatness” and “Himalayas”
Alliteration: ‘hold’, ‘half-inch’, ‘Himalayas’ and ‘hand’
The tone of the poem is getting increasingly serious and emotional from line 5. “This is home. And this is the closest I’ll ever be to home.” (line5-6) What a powerful rhetorical repetition that emphasises poet’s deep affection towards the land he loves!
Irony: the word “closest”. It is saddening to know that the poet yearns to be home but the chance to do so is thin.
The poet continues to build up a bitter mood by imagining what Kashmir will be like when he returns. Torn by wars, Kashmir would not be so colourful. Bloodshed Jhelum’s water would not be so clean and ultramarine anymore.
The repeated use of “so” in line 7-10 intensifies the poet’s pity and lament for the destruction of Kashmir.
His emotion reaches the climax at “my love so overexposed” (line 9-10). The poet intentionally separates “so overexposed” from “my love” in order to achieve a rhetorical emphasis on his patriotic sentiment.
“overexposed”: show how overwhelming the poet’s nostalgic love to Kashmir is in a somehow distorted and explicit manner, just like a piece of photography that are overexposed (too much light).
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Concept :
The poet is attempting to capture the sentiment of the Kashmiri people in this poem. The poem's main theme is longing for the motherland. The poet is on the lookout for a sense of national identity. The poet's thoughts about his native Kashmir are expressed in the poem "Postcard from Kashmir." The poem juxtaposes a picture of picturesque Kashmiri scenery with the poet's memory of his home. As soon as he receives the postcard, he is brought back to his native India. He cannot possibly be at home, as he is somewhere far away.
Explanation:
We have been given a question about a poem.
We have to write feelings does the poet express for Kashmir in the poem ' postcard from Kashmir'.
• A guy who refuses to give in to the fractured character of modern experience has written a collection of poetry about his agony, bewilderment, and final triumph.
• Because it mainly emphasises the nicest and brightest features of the speaker's home, the postcard only provides a brief and incomplete portrait of the neighbourhood.
Final answer:
Hence it is the poem's main theme is longing for the motherland.
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