what is the significance of the poem "The River"
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The repetition in “A River” by A.K. Ramanujan is interesting and painfully ironic. The poem itself is Ramanujan's way of atoning for the neglect of previous poets, and repetition is one technique Ramanujan uses to direct the readers' attention to his objectives.
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Explanation:‘A River’ by A.K. Ramanujan is a four stanza poem that is separated into uneven sets of lines. The first stanza contains sixteen lines, the second: eleven, the third: seven, and the fourth: fifteen. They do not follow a specific rhyme scheme, but there are moments of repetition which help create rhythm.
Most clearly, there is a refrain that is used in the second stanza and the fourth and is only slightly changed. The speaker describes what happened during this particular flood, and then restates the same thing. This works in two ways, first to emphasize the loss. But, at the same time, it also desensitizing the reader. One comes to expect tragedy, as those who reside in the city do, and see it as another aspect of the flood/drought.