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The poem "A different history" is a wonderful poem written by "Sujata Bhatt". This poem is about two gods Pan and Saraswati. The poet talks to us about how they are all around us and other religious believes. In this essay I would be exploring the poetic devices used and also I would talk about topics talked upon in the poem.
The poem consists of twenty nine lines and is divided into two stanzas with eighteen lines and eleven lines. The first stanza talks about the god s in India and the second stanza talks about the language and conqueror. The poem does not have a regular rhyme scheme like dead, emigrated, India, freely, monkeys, sacred. The poem does not have a rhythm because the lengths of the lines are not consistent (five syllables, seven syllables, five syllables). This poem has a lot of indented lines and has two stanzas.
The poet Sujata Bhatt has been using both formal and informal diction in the poem. The words used by leave a sense of different histories on the reader’s mind. The first stanza gives a sense of formality whereas the second stanza gives a sense of informality. In this poem the writer straight away talks to us (readers) which makes us feel the impact of the poem directly.
In this poem the poet uses metaphor in two places. Once the poet mentions it first in the line number four and five (Here the gods roam freely, disguised as snakes and monkeys). The second time she mentions it in the line number fifteen and sixteen (You must learn how to turn the pages gently without disturbing Saraswati). The poet even uses alliteration in the poem as it adds on to the flow of the poem (scythe, swooping). There are some sensory images used in the poem such as visual (tree, book, paper), organic (after soul has been cropped with a long scythe swooping out of the conqueror’s face.
In the first stanza the poet talks about the religious believes. The poet also shows great amount of respect on the ending four to six lines of the poem. Whereas in the second
The poem consists of twenty nine lines and is divided into two stanzas with eighteen lines and eleven lines. The first stanza talks about the god s in India and the second stanza talks about the language and conqueror. The poem does not have a regular rhyme scheme like dead, emigrated, India, freely, monkeys, sacred. The poem does not have a rhythm because the lengths of the lines are not consistent (five syllables, seven syllables, five syllables). This poem has a lot of indented lines and has two stanzas.
The poet Sujata Bhatt has been using both formal and informal diction in the poem. The words used by leave a sense of different histories on the reader’s mind. The first stanza gives a sense of formality whereas the second stanza gives a sense of informality. In this poem the writer straight away talks to us (readers) which makes us feel the impact of the poem directly.
In this poem the poet uses metaphor in two places. Once the poet mentions it first in the line number four and five (Here the gods roam freely, disguised as snakes and monkeys). The second time she mentions it in the line number fifteen and sixteen (You must learn how to turn the pages gently without disturbing Saraswati). The poet even uses alliteration in the poem as it adds on to the flow of the poem (scythe, swooping). There are some sensory images used in the poem such as visual (tree, book, paper), organic (after soul has been cropped with a long scythe swooping out of the conqueror’s face.
In the first stanza the poet talks about the religious believes. The poet also shows great amount of respect on the ending four to six lines of the poem. Whereas in the second