Kishwar Naheed is one of the best known Urdu feminist poets of Pakistan. She was born in Bulandshahr, Uttar Pradesh, India in 1940. Her family moved to Lahore in Pakistan during the the sub-continent of 1947. Kishwar had witnessed violence (including rape and abduction of women) associated with partition. She has published six collections of poems between 1969 and 1990. All her texts are about to redefine the man and woman relationship in the context of female sexuality, politics and social issues.
The poem ‘Talking to Myself’ is about a feeling and dream of a woman who wants to be free. She has a desire to go beyond what the man and this world expected from a woman. In the poem, the persona gives pictures to the readers about pain, misery and oppression that she faced from a person called man. But the most important, this poem purposely gives a sarcastic expression of what tortured and oppressed woman’s feel towards a man. It is based on what the man have done to her. It also tells that the persona can do more than the man expects because she can fight against all bad things that happen to her before and this will give bad effect to the man’s pride.
Since we focus on the usage of symbolism in this anthology, we discover this element in the poem through the word ‘Punish’. From our point of view, the word ‘punish’ symbolizes the whole feeling of the persona. It indicates the oppression and misery experienced by the persona. Besides, the word ‘punish’ has been repeated 10 times and for us, this shows that the word is very important to convey her dream and desire within her inner feeling. So each time the word ‘punish’ appear in this poem, it will be followed by the expression of the persona’s feeling, which can be good evidence as the word symbolizes oppression and misery.
After several times analyzing this poem, we have found out that the element of symbolism is useful in creating the theme. From our point of view, this poem’s theme is the expression, hope and dream of a depressed woman to seek for freedom in the patriarchal society. When we relate the symbolism element to this theme, it really does make sense. The word ‘Punish’ symbolizes oppression and misery that definitely related to the theme. This patriarchal culture context clearly explains that the symbolism and the theme is getting along together in order to convey the internal messages. The poet, Kishwar uses the symbolism element to strengthen the theme. From our opinion, the sarcastic style in this poem by using symbolization ‘Punish’ has succeed to show the theme of internal painful feeling of a woman.
The poem ‘Talking to Myself’ is about a feeling and dream of a woman who wants to be free. She has a desire to go beyond what the man and this world expected from a woman. In the poem, the persona gives pictures to the readers about pain, misery and oppression that she faced from a person called man. But the most important, this poem purposely gives a sarcastic expression of what tortured and oppressed woman’s feel towards a man. It is based on what the man have done to her. It also tells that the persona can do more than the man expects because she can fight against all bad things that happen to her before and this will give bad effect to the man’s pride.
Since we focus on the usage of symbolism in this anthology, we discover this element in the poem through the word ‘Punish’. From our point of view, the word ‘punish’ symbolizes the whole feeling of the persona. It indicates the oppression and misery experienced by the persona. Besides, the word ‘punish’ has been repeated 10 times and for us, this shows that the word is very important to convey her dream and desire within her inner feeling. So each time the word ‘punish’ appear in this poem, it will be followed by the expression of the persona’s feeling, which can be good evidence as the word symbolizes oppression and misery.
After several times analyzing this poem, we have found out that the element of symbolism is useful in creating the theme. From our point of view, this poem’s theme is the expression, hope and dream of a depressed woman to seek for freedom in the patriarchal society. When we relate the symbolism element to this theme, it really does make sense. The word ‘Punish’ symbolizes oppression and misery that definitely related to the theme. This patriarchal culture context clearly explains that the symbolism and the theme is getting along together in order to convey the internal messages. The poet, Kishwar uses the symbolism element to strengthen the theme. From our opinion, the sarcastic style in this poem by using symbolization ‘Punish’ has succeed to show the theme of internal painful feeling of a woman.
Personal Reviews By; Muhamad Hafizul (National University of Malaysia - UKM)
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i like this view very much kindly also explain a palace of wax by naheed
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