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.
Howling sirens
Terrible dark clouds
Pillaged Rain
Signal that the sky was crying
Evil Sky!
Hiding behind clouds
Ashamed
6 january 1993
Mark of baba yousuf lane
Inception of their bane
Hushed Town
There was crackdown
A single Gunshot
Apple town turned blot
butchered 57 civilians
pumped bullet into the bodies
Dragged mercilessly
The men were lashed
passengers shootout
Wailing aloud
Shootings everywhere
48 faced down in the mud
Inside the four corners of this town
Snow meltdown
the blood they bled
Left the ground stained red
9 burnt alive
Seeing the flames
Ashes deprive
Hearts died
Apple town cried
Torched buildings
Living debased
Massacre quoted as Farce
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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ANALYSES OF THE POEM:
All of sudden the sirens start howling and a peaceful town is brutaly exposed to miseries never known to it before.
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.
Kudos to this sweet child poet.
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2.
Analysis by:
Dr Rafiq Masoodi
Its a beautiful depiction of historical happening mixed with poetic imagery but historical content has always to be consolidated with docu_facts which poet has infact tried to mix with...people who are witness to this tragedy will know the ethos and pain and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
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4.Analysis by:
Hassan Azhar
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
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