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3. K. SATCHIDANANDAN
He is a major Indian poet, who wrote in
Malayalam and English. He is also a
critic, editor and translator. He was the
executive Head of the Kendra Sahitya
Academy and editor of Indian
Literature. He has translated the poems
of Bertolt Brecht, Garcia Lorca, Pablo
Neruda and Cesar Vallejo into
Malayalam.
4. Thorns are my language
I announce my existence
With a bleeding touch
5. The Poet says that thorns are his dialectal. The
thoughts in his mind do not venture like flowers.
But they are only like thorns because of the
adverse conditions outside his Limitations. The
poet conveys through his poem that his
existence in this world is known or felt to others
only through pain and blood. Who ever touches
or sympathizes with him is cursed by a prick
from his thorns
6. Once these thorns were flowers
I loathe lovers who betray
Poets have Abandoned the deserts
To go back to the gardens
Only camels remain here and
merchants
Who trample my flowers to dust
7. A cactus is not considered for its beauty. Its language
hurts others, bleeds others, as the thorns are its
language. Its is sharp and piercing. Once it had flowers,
it dislikes lovers who cheat. Cactus remember its
childhood when these thorns were flowers. Cactus
criticizes the poets who praise only peripheral beauty for
they abandoned the deserts in search of the beautiful
plants in gardens which are nursed by a gardener. But in
a desert, bearing the hot sun, only camels and
merchants travel. They crush my flowers to dust.
8. One thorn for each rare drop of
water.
I don’t tempt butterflies.
No bird sings my praise
I don’t yield to droughts.
9. Cactus have been living with the least
facilities available. Leaves are reduced to
thorns. There is only one thorn for each rare
drop of water. I don’t tempt butterflies. Nor
does any bird praise me and I know my
limitations. I do not want them to bleed
because of me. I don’t yield to drought.
10. I create another beauty
Beyond the moonlight
This side of dreams
A sharp, piercing,
Parallel language
11. My withstanding power is quite appreciable.
Beyond the boundaries of moon light. I
create another beauty. This is world of
dreams. In my real world, there is a sharp ,
piercing parallel languages.
12. Difficult Words
Loathe - Dislike
Desert - Large area of sand without water and trees
Abandoned - No longer used
Garden - Land used for growing flowers
Trample - Step heavily on something
to crush or harm them
Tempt - Make somebody want to do
or have something
13. METAPHOR
A metaphor is figure or speech in which words that
are normally used to denote one kind of thing,
quality or action are applied to another in the form
of statement of identity without using words like
“as” or “like”.
‘Thorns are my language’ - Metaphor
14. IMAGERY
Visual imagery is the mental picture experienced by a
reader of a poem to the totality of the components which
make up a poem that is an image is “a picture made out
of words”. Visual imagery signifies sense of visual
perception.Tactile imagery pertains sense of touch.
‘With a bleeding touch’ (tactile imagery)
‘Once these thorns were flowers’
‘Only camels remain here, and merchants’
Visual
Imagery
15. SUMMARY
The poet conveys through the poem that his existence in this world
is known to others through pain and blood. Who ever touches and
sympathizes with him is cursed by a prick from his thorns. Once it
had flowers, it dislike lovers who cheat. The cactus criticizes the
poet who praise only peripheral beauty for they abandoned the
deserts in search of beautiful plants in garden. But in desert only
camels and Merchants travel, they crush my flowers to dust. There
is only one thorn for each rare drop of water. Cactus don’t tempt
butterflies. Cactus did not want them to bleed nor yield to drought.
Beyond the boundaries of moon light it create another beauty. This
is a world of dreams in that real world there is sharp, piercing
parallel language.
16. Review Questions
1.Who is the author ?
2.What does bleeding touch imply ?
3.What is the nature of the cactus language ?
4.What is peculiar about the life of the cactus ?
5.How does the cactus make use the “ Energy” it
gets rarely ?
6.Is the cactus a tough fighter ?
