Parrot In The Cage BBS 2nd Year Vision
Parrot in the cage poem in Nepali, summary. Parrot in the cage questions and answers.
Parrot in The Cage (Lekhanath Paudyal)
About Poet
- Lekhanath Paudyal was born in Kaski who moved to Kathmandu.
- He obtained his higher education in Sanskrit from Baranasi India.
- His famous publications are Rituvichar (1916), Buddivinod (1916), Lalitya (1912), Satyakalisamvada (1919), Tarun Tapasi (1953) and Mero Rama (1954).
- 'The parrot in the cage' is the English translation of Nepali poem 'Pinjara ko suga' rendered by Laxmi Parsad Devkota.
- In this poem bird as a symbol of Nepali citizens freedom is trapped in a cage of Rana Regime.
- This poem also exposes the cruelty and injustice of human dominance over animals.
The parrot in a cage is written by Lekhanath Paudyal which was translated by Laxmi Parsad Devkota.
Pattern :
The poem consists of 23 stanzas each containing lines with aabb, ccdd, ccff pattern. The lines don't have any metrical consistency.
Summary :
The parrot is known for its mimicking. It can imitate human sounds and can be quite vocal too. So, the parrot has been presented as a person who has been captured and placed in a prison. It symbolizes someone whose freedom and rights have been taken away from them.
So, this poem represents a bitter satire on the autocratic Rana Regime that deprived Nepalese people of freedom. For 104 years, men had to live away from their family, home, they had to suffer only for pleasure and entertainment of Rana Rulers. And if someone tried to fight against this dominance, they were laughed at. Innocent people were abused. Their right to good education, food, clothing, job, etc. were all controlled by Ranas.
In the poem, the parrot fate has been taken as the 'oppressor' (a person or group that oppress other people). The poem sketches a realistic picture of Nepali political environment during Ranarchy.
The poem is a dramatic monologue where a parrot laments (expression of sorrow) its life condition inside the cage, shares its story of pain and loss of separation from its near ones. The parrot regards its fate and bemoans (express sorrow) his imprisonment to fate and to the god.
Stanza-wise Explanation :
Stanza 1:
The parrot is compared to a twice born child. The parrot used to have a free and wandering life which was its first life then it was caged and forced to live like a prisoner. We normally associate birth to a new positive beginning but for this part, his second part was a curse. A twice born child signifies dual life as well. One that of the parrot and one that of poet himself.
The parrot explains how he has been trapped into an iron cage by fate and pleads to the god about how he can neither rest nor find peace. He feels oppressed not only in reality but also in his dreams.
Stanza 2 :
He expresses how his family and friends are a far from him in the forest living freely while he has been caged in to a prison where he has on one to listen or sympathies to his agonies> He has no other option but to cry with lump in his sore (hurting) throat.
Stanza 3 :
The parrot has no other option other than to cry to himself to a point that his eyes are swollen. He expresses how he feels so lifeless even if he is still alive. He feels as if he is a spiritless corpse at time as all he does in the cage is sit there doing nothing, only entertaining his 'prisoners' and at times he starts jumping and acting mad thinking of the woodlands that he used to travel through in his life.
Stanza 4 :
There was a time when he enjoyed his life, freely wandering in the little forest he lived in. But now he has been tempted into a cage by humans. He blames fate for somehow tricking him into a cage. So, fate ha been presented as ' beguiling' (charming in deceptive way), 'oppressor' and 'strange'.
Stanza 5 :
He thinks of how far he could have flown if he wasn't trapped here. He dreams of the countries he could have soared but sadly fate has tricked him into a dungeon because of his natural gifts of speaking. He recalls how loved he was by his friends.
Stanza 6 and 7 :
He recalls how he used to fly and wander around. He recalls the cool water flowing through the jungle and the cool shades off verdant woods which provided him shadow from the hotness/warmth of the sun. He thinks about the delicious food that he used to pick up to eat whenever he wanted. Now all that is a part of dream an he lives his life in a fear.
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