Thinking Activity on selected poem

An introduction

Hello readers! I am Divya Parmar and I warmly welcome you all to read my blog. This blog is a response to the thinking activity which is given by yesha ma'am. First I wrote the poem's introduction and its brief summary. After I will write my work upon one word from the poem. 

In ‘An Introduction,’ Das explores her complex emotions regarding the system controlling her life and the lives of countless suffering women. She also has the experience to back up her assertions about freedom and oppression as she played a critical role in the establishment of the Indian feminist movement. 

This particular piece is one of her most well-known. It was published in her first collection, Summary in Calcutta in 1965. The collection focuses on love and the pain that follows betrayal. 

An Introduction begins with the speaker, Das, stating that she knows all the male leaders of India. Their names are a part of her, a tribute to their overwhelming power. This contrasts significantly with the lack of power she felt growing up and getting married at sixteen. She struggles with her identity and is finally able to step away from the traditional role of wife. 

Das describes the way that men are able to move through the world with a solid identity. They are allowed their choices and emotions. In the last lines, she pushes back against this way of life by stating that she feels things that do not belong to the man she loves. She too can be “I.” 

My work upon the word don't

Don't judge a person by their look! 

Look is not a certificate of good personality.

Don't judge a person by their way of speaking!

Maybe they are speaking the truth that you won't listen to.

Don't judge a person by their behaviour!

Everybody can't fit in your design of behaviour.