The document discusses a poem by Malayalam poet K. Sachidanandan called "Stammer", which explores stammering as a mode of speech and language in itself, containing thousands of meanings within the silences between words. The poet ponders whether stammering or language came first, and describes stammering as a sacrifice of meanings to God when one tries to express themselves. He suggests that if an entire people stammered, it would become their mother tongue, and that God himself must have stammered when creating man, which is why our words cannot always fully express what we intend.

3. K. Sachidanandan
• K. Sachidanandan is a
Malayalam poet who writes
also in English.
• He belongs to the group of
modern intellectual poets.

4. About the poem
• Stammer is the translation of the Malayalam
poem ‘vikku’.
• The poet says that stammer is not a handicap .
It is a mode of speech.
• Just as a silence between a word .Stammer is
the silence that falls between a word and its
meaning. And that silence contain a
thousands of meaning.

5. • The poet is not sure if stammer is a dialect or
a language by itself. He wonders which came
first- language or stammering.
• Stammer occurs when we want to express
ourselves. That is why the poet says that
stammer is a sacrifice to God of meanings.
• When a whole people stammer it becomes
their mother tongue. The poet says that the
God himself must have stammered when he
created man. For same reason our prayers,
commands and poems are not able to express
exactly what we want to express.

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