This is life seen through distorting screens a windscreen, a television screen, newsprint, mirror, water, breath, heat haze, smokescreen. She lived most of her early life in glasgow, but married a welshman and despite her husband losing his battle with cancer she now divides her time between london, wales and mumbai her poetry is varied but often concerns itself with themes such as feminism and as is the case with this poem displacement. Pakistaniscottish calvinist muslim is set to be replace. The women finally have to make a choice similar to the other choices given unto them by the society. She works as a documentary filmmaker in india, and is also an artist, having shown solo exhibitions in the uk, india and hong kong. Different readers may attach more or less significance to each of these themes, depending upon how they view the poem. Assignment on theme in poetry global literature and film.
Imagine the drip of it, the small splash, echo in a tin mug, the voice of a kindly god. Analysis of poem tissue by imtiaz dharker owlcation. Help students revise for aqa english literature paper 2 with beyonds revision blog on imtiaz dharkers tissue poem exploring key themes. Blessing from postcards from god, honour killing and theyll say, she must be from another country from i speak for the devil, and the terrorist at my table and how to cut a pomegranate from the terrorist at my table.
Using imtiaz dharker s poem a century later to explore theme. Living space by imtiaz dharker edquas living space describes a vision of a precariously created slum town. The main theme of her poetry includes home, freedom, journey, geographical and cultural. Imtiaz dharker was born in pakistan, raised in glasgow, and now lives between london and mumbai. It is from this life of transitions that the themes of her poetry are drawn. Her exhibitions are organized in the usa, europe, india, china. Content, ideas, language and structure are explored. The egg may beabout to hatchthresholds windows floors.
Imtiaz dharkers poems and pictures hurtle through a world that changes even as we pass. International multidisciplinary research journal the criterion. The poem explores the doubt and uncertainty of a post911 world in terms of language and identity. The poetry of imtiaz dharker has travelled an interesting path from the trauma of cultural exile and alienation to a celebration of unsettlement as settlement. If the poems collected in purdah are windows shuttered upon a private world, those. Complete analysis of the right word by imtiaz dharker. Imtiaz dharker, a scottish muslim poet, artist and documentary film maker, was born in lahore to. Imtiaz dharker grew up a muslim calvinist in a lahori household in glasgow, was adopted by india and married into wales. Imtiaz dharker imagines her books as sequences of both poems and drawings. This article is an analysis of the poem the right word by imtiaz dharker.
Generalizing the kind of choices that are given to them, it becomes very clear that most of these are based on serving the men of the world and carrying out the traditional household duties. The main themes of dharkers poetry include home, freedom, journeys, geographical and cultural displacement, communal conflict and. The right word analysis by imtiaz dharker ba english notes. Awarded the queens gold medal for poetry in 2014, she has received the cholmondley award. Imtiaz dharker, 65, was born in pakistan and raised in scotland. She is furthermore a documentary film maker in india, producing, with her team, about ten films a year. She has written about themes including religion, identity and feminism and would be the first asian to become poet laureate. Imtiaz dharkers tissue poem focuses on the fragile life we humans lead. Her book grows, layer by layer, through three sequences. A number of unifying ideas or themes run through the poem.
The biography of imtiaz dharker strikes by the scope of the global scale. In imtiaz dharkers latest collection, however, the title doesnt so much. Imtiaz dharker is a poet and artist, and also makes video films. Her main themes are drawn from a life of transitions.
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