Poem "Sopore Massacre" by Rabia Kirmani, and its Analyses.

The poem "Sopore massacre" is written by Rabia Kirmani, who is just 15,and has a great inclination towards written words. The poem was posted on a renowned literary page "Rafiabad Adbi Markaz" for analysis and critical appreciation on the eve of 6th January 2018, the 25th anniversary of Sopore Massacre.
Many critiques as well as writers put their best efforts to deconstruct the poem and decipher its message. Lets have a brief look upon the poem, and then a few of these analyses written by different poets and critiques.

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"Sopore Massacre"

Howling sirens
Terrible dark clouds
Pillaged Rain
Signal that the sky was crying
Evil Sky!
Hiding behind clouds
Ashamed

At the first light of
6 january 1993
Mark of baba yousuf lane
Inception of their bane
Hushed Town
There was crackdown
A single Gunshot
Apple town turned blot

94th battalion went on rampage
butchered 57 civilians
pumped bullet into the bodies
Dragged mercilessly
The men were lashed

JKY-1901 Driver out
passengers shootout
Wailing aloud
Shootings everywhere
48 faced down in the mud
Inside the four corners of this town
Snow meltdown

One bullet left them dead
the blood they bled
Left the ground stained red
9 burnt alive
Seeing the flames
Ashes deprive

Souls burnt
Hearts died
Apple town cried
Torched buildings
Living debased
Massacre quoted as Farce

News hitted home
Looked into my mothers eyes
She was searching for a dad with a smile
Looked into my sisters eyes
She was stitching Dad's torn clothes that night
Looked into my Brothers eyes
He was lifting the Coffin of Dad
Looking into mine
They wanted HIM Back
                         _I lost my heaven
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Tariq Ahmad Tariq

ANALYSES OF THE POEM:

1.By: Tariq Ahmad Tariq

"Sopore Massarce" by Rabia Kirmaani

The poem seems  to be an eye witness account from the perspective of a minor girl from a destitute household. Her father, as per the connotations of the text,  has just left the home to earn his living.
All of sudden the sirens start howling and a peaceful town is brutaly exposed to miseries never known to it before. 

Gunshots are heard,  and the people are butchered like cattle, and their bodies are mercilessly stuffed with bullets. The slaughtered men are dragged on the roads, and the roads are thus painted  red. The rampage of the houses and the business establishments follows and the hunger of the wolves is thus satiated to the core.

The poor girl is fear struck. She has, however, no fears about her family untill some the mysterious news flies and shudders the poor cottage to the core.
The mother is sobbing but holding patience. The sister,  devoid of the fact,  is  still stiching dad's torn clothes to be used by him the next day.
All of sudden the minor girl sees her brother  from the window lifting the coffin of his dad. Thus the heaven of the minor girl is snatched from her along with some 57 families whose wait for their parents will never see an end.

The poem is brimmed with pathos. The visual as well as sound imageries have been lavishly used. Sirens have been projected the way as if wolves were howling. Rain has been presented as if it were outlaws all set to plunder a happy and prosperious hamlet. Yes these metaphorical connotations has given the poem a smooth go, because these wolves as the poem plodes ahead then suck the blood of innocents, and the scenes of rampage are seen at its maxima.

Kudos to this sweet child poet. 
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Analysis by:
Dr Rafiq Masoodi

Beauty of it...
Its a beautiful depiction of historical happening mixed with poetic imagery but historical content has always to be consolidated with docu_facts which poet has infact tried to mix with...people who are witness to this tragedy will know the ethos and pain and the poetic xpression of poet...
This is "Realistic and Formalistic Approach " to literature which Eliot TS and Richards (am missing full name) would say A MUST in literature.
My suggestion to poet wud b to refabric and repolish the poem and further  study or at least read gr8 classical and contemporary western and Eastern English poets to hav further experience of poetic xpression,form and style...
Kudos to the poet fr using xtra ordinary vcabulary of historical facts in most befitting and aesthetical maner.
Poet is bound to touch dizzy heights in future....
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3.Analysis by:
Farhan Zain

Itz the incident which I m nt familiar with but I hv heard from my inmates ..I can say that the poet has written the poem with an immotional touch..Tragic element in the poem pinches the nerves and the pathos is seen as if the poet is an eye witness to the incident..A good attempt and a great  start up by the budding poet..It is really priceless..The pain and suffering is evident ..a scene is created as if we r watching it ...that means poet has made us to observe and feel the trauma he feels..It is a pathetic story of a hospitable land kashmir....Hats off to the poet
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4.Analysis by:
Hassan Azhar

Sopore Massacre is a very good attempt from the poetess. She is not witnessed to that dreadful scene but that horrible scene  would have been observed by some one else where from the poetess picked the thread and started knitting this master piece.
The poem in a way, is presented, shows  that poetess is observing every thing minutely of this frightful massacre. The diction of the poem is degnified. Words not only say what happened but they also cry, weap, crawl, creep, escape like those victimised and hapeless people who were gunned down ruthlessly.
The artistic approach of this buddin bloom poetess seems  mature. She knows fully what to say and how to say. As mentioned above that she has not observed the bloody situation. She was only made known about the massacre but the imagery of the poem speakes about the volumes of her ability, skill and craft. The countless qualities of this beautiful poem is a clear indication of poetesses bright future. The affectif of the narrater makes the reader sensational. The mode of speech is motivating. The compositions and compounds are not ambiguous.
Howling sirens, terrible dark clouds, pittaged rain, crying evil sky, hushed town, stained red ground, deprived ashes, burent souls, torched buildings create pain  and havoc  all around. There is enough linkage between the words and the idea.
Congrats to this budding bloom poetess

We the members of Rafiabad Adbi Markaz wish very good future to this young poetess. We wish her grand sucess. We expects that the poetess will groom herself and will explore new heights in this field. We are all praises for this budding poet of North Kashmir.
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