'An Introduction' Poem By Kamala Das : My Response To Kamala Das's Rhetoric Question

Introduction : This blog is written as a part of the Thinking Activity assigned by Yesha Bhatt regarding Kamala Das's poem 'An Introduction.' In this activity, we were asked to write a piece of paragraph, prose, poem, or lines after reading of the poem and then reflecting the reading and understanding of ut as such.

The Poem Written by Me : I have taken lines from the poem regarding the conflict between orthodoxical conservatives and modernist liberals as the culture's vultures tell the speaker to speak only her native language and leave alone the foreign languages, here the English language.

A Genial Response to Kamala Das' Rhetoric Question

Kamala Das' words from 'An Introduction' :

""English is not your mother-tongue."

Why not leave me alone,

Critics, friends, visiting cousins, every one of you?

Why not let me speak in any language I like?"

My Genial Answer to the Rhetoric Question :

But Na! They won't give budge to do as told,

For deaf, and dumb, and blind can never think -

The things abroad which their minds can't unfold;

But they shall wallow in their shallow rut, despite its rancid stink...(1)

On this type of bogey-minds the nation's burden's laid -

By terminator excelled at Argumentum ad Passiones,

But who do set these treacherous ones upon the nation's head?

We ignorants are the ones who give the throne to gits...(2)

What then should be done to these dunderheads?

Shall we keep off from them or stay a bit astray?

Not at all! But be like an oil-droplet -

That floats in ocean like a king whom waters cannot sway...(3)

(3rd July, 2022 - Sunday - 02:58 pm)

- Nirav Amreliya

Thank you!