write an analysis of the poem letter to my mother by dom moraes?
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Explanation:
Letter to my Mother ‘is one of the famous poems written by Dom Moraes. . His
poetry is not about personal choices, moral relationships, and the active self in
society. His poems are about the sensitivity of the poet as artist in contrast to the
insensitivity of others. In ‘Letter to My Mother’, he has attempted to turn the
personal into the universal. Besides, the poem is concerned with the East. He has
love for India. From ‘Cold, tidy’ England he strives to see India.
In a sense. it is ‘Any Son to Any Mother’. Dom Moraes lyrics have a vibrant
suggestiveness. The familiar is touched with the allusive light of romance and the
unusual is rendered intimate through understanding. The poet has address to his
mother who is beyond seven islands and seas from England. His mother is a follower
of Roman Catholic Christanity. The poet has remembered the small home on a hill
built by his grandfather who is died. When he died, the poet’s mother mourned but
the poet himself was in England. The young poet has taken unhappy decision to stay
in England because of his psychological situation. He has remained undeterred even
by the repeated requests of his mother to stay longer in India. He was feeling restless
for his ‘adopted country’. But he has remembered his mother praying for him, for sparing him from the arms of the blue wife. But he was not happy but sad in England. He was shamed of himself.
Dom Moraes has become nostalgic , by remembering India compering with his
mother’s eyes . The description of his ‘defeated dream’ which has subtle hints to the
cultural plurality of India with different funeral rites of Hindus, Muslims, Christians
and Parsees. Dom Morase is a Goan Catholic but he had a very unhappy childhood.
He says, I am ashamed of myself Since I was ashamed of you