Wednesday, March 19, 2008

An analyzed interpretation of an innocent poem!!!

It is another one of my poems which I clearly remember to have written back when I was in 2nd standard. It had rained heavily, yet I had obediently gone to school only to find a handful of students as sincere as me. We were made to sit in one of the classrooms and asked to write anything that comes in our mind. I had just written four lines of the poem, when it was announced a holiday and we came back home. But I still had the four lines in my mind and wanted to continue. So I finished the poem at home. Here is the poem.


It was dark,
In all the park,
I was waiting for the car,
Lonely with the stars.

The sun was rising,
And the moon was going,
But the car did not come,
And I waited for the evening,

When my friends will come,
And I will go,
With all my sorrows,
Because I wont play with my friends,
And I will have to study crying on a bench.

When I had written this poem, I had no hidden message along with it but now when I look at it I can see it quite differently. I can see it from the point of view of a rich child born with all the luxuries ( let me clear that I am nowhere related to this child) who even goes to play in a park escorted in a car. His parents (lets consider this child to be a boy) too busy to provide him with worldly pleasures, overlook the need for him to be emotionally secure and hence he is left alone, emotionally unsatisfied with stars to accompany him. Even the child fails to realize what he is missing and finally his priorities change and he is more comforted by his friends than family for happiness. I even like the last line which might give us an idea about the pressure the child has to face to do well academically and is forced to study regularly at such a tender age!

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