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  1. Personification: A figure of speech in which the poet describes an abstraction, a thing, or a nonhuman form as if it were a person. For example, “The yellowed diary's notes whisper in vernacular.” Enjambment: It is the continuation of a sentence or clause across a line break. For example, “We wish wRead more

    Personification: A figure of speech in which the poet describes an abstraction, a thing, or a nonhuman form as if it were a person. For example, “The yellowed diary’s notes whisper in vernacular.”

    Enjambment: It is the continuation of a sentence or clause across a line break. For example, “We wish we had not to wake up with our smiles/ in the middle of some social order.

     

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  1. The poem by Jayanta Mahapatra is a beautiful piece of writing that nearly has an autobiographical quality due to the sensitive subject of religious conversion. In a sense, her grandfather's diary is a narrative that describes how he abandoned his religion and his forefathers out of a primal want forRead more

    The poem by Jayanta Mahapatra is a beautiful piece of writing that nearly has an autobiographical quality due to the sensitive subject of religious conversion. In a sense, her grandfather’s diary is a narrative that describes how he abandoned his religion and his forefathers out of a primal want for food. During the famine in Orissa in 1866, hunger was the driving force that led this man to give up and accept Christianity.

     

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  1. The themes are frequently philosophical. He is highly realistic in his treatment of human emotions and pain. The poem is inspired by the famine that ravaged Orissa in 1866. The poet describes how the famine affected people's lives, especially that of his grandfather, a devout Hindu who was forced toRead more

    The themes are frequently philosophical. He is highly realistic in his treatment of human emotions and pain. The poem is inspired by the famine that ravaged Orissa in 1866. The poet describes how the famine affected people’s lives, especially that of his grandfather, a devout Hindu who was forced to become a Christian in order to escape the lethal effects of hunger and destitution. He also covers the grandfather’s predicament, anxiety, and humiliation in great detail. The poem’s topics are mental anguish, losing his identity, and the consequences of starvation (the hopeless situation of a man).

     

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