Hunger written by jayanta Mahapatra
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It was hard to believe the flash was heavy on my back
The fisherman said, will you have her, carelessly
Trailing his nets and his nerves, as thought his words.
Sanctified the purpose with which he forced himself
I saw his white bone thrash his eyes.
I followed him across the sprawling sands,
My mind thumping in the flash's sling.
Hope lay perhaps in burning the house I lived in Silence gripped my sleeves his body clawed at the froth
his old nets had only dragged up from the seas.
In the flickering dark his learn-to opened like a wound
The wind was I, and the days and nights before,
Palm fronds scratched my skin. inside the shack
an oil lamp splayed the hours bunched to those walls.
Over and over the sticky soot crossed the space of my mind.
I heard him say, My daughter, she's just turned fifteen
Feel her I'll be back soon, your bus leaves at nine.
The sky fell on me and a father's exhausted wile,
Long and lean, her years were cold as rubber.
She opened her wormy legs wide. I felt the hunger there,
The other one the fish slithering turning inside.
What is the central idea of the poem hunger?
Central idea of the poem hunger written by jayanta Mahapatra
Hunger is one of the well known and remarkable poem by jayanta Mahapatra. It is characterside by extreme trenchancy and brevity of expression. There are three main characters in the poem, the poet himself the fisherman and the fisherman's daughter. The poet himself to speak in the first person. He is over powered by sensual desire. So, he asked the fisherman carelessly if he would sleep with his daughter. The second characters is a fisherman-poverty stricken shameless father who sells his young daughter to the poet to keep body and soul together. The third characters is the fisherman's daughter. She is only fifteen. She is helpless women and victim of men sensulity.
The poet uses only a few words to tell the story of the poverty and exploitations of women and shamelessness of a father who is out to sell his daughter. It is not a story of a poor fisherman and his daughter, but also the tell of woe of all those helpless poor women who sells themselves to make both and meet.
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