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Soft Storm by Abhi Subedi
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Soft Storm by Abhi Subedi
This poem, "Soft Storm," was composed by a prolific poet, playwright, and critic, Abhi Subedi. Here in this poem, the poet Abhi Subedi, with a touch of compassion, contemplates the absurdities of tumultuous times. This poem is based on observation and analysis of the main speaker, or poet. Here in this poem, we find nine different stanzas in irregular lengths where the refrain "I became soft" has created a rhythmic melody in the poem. The speaker of the poem seems quite sad to find absurdities in his surroundings during his observation during the nighttime. He roams various places in the Kathmandu valley and experiences various negativities that have made him sad in a very soft as well as aggressive way. He is not satisfied with finding the overall aspects of his place and expresses his dissatisfaction over all these absurdities of tumultuous times. The speaker of this poem has presented the bitter reality of our country as well as the people, where various negativities have affected their lives. Here, the term "soft" has been used in various situations, which refers to the speaker's sadness and aggression. The speaker of this poem has grown soft in various situations. He has put forward various situations such as tumult, mysterious stillness, useless gossip about politics, rituals, and reasons, a polluted and barbarous seamless city, indifferent relationships between humans, hunger, cries, the conditions of children and mothers, crimes, pains and oppressions, fake promises, etc. The speaker of the poem has satirised all these worse aspects as well as the people of his place, where so-called law and order are prevalent. He has tried to present the bitter reality of the nighttime at his place.
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STANZA WISE ANALYSIS
Here in this first stanza, the speaker is expressing his dissatisfaction with the violence and the mysterious calmness that appears just after it. He becomes soft (sad) to find the disorders in his surroundings. He is expressing his fear of being part of the mysterious calmness in this lawless and barbaric city where crimes take place at any time.
According to him, his softness comes from birth. But there is a vast difference between his softness of his birth and the present time. When he views the beautiful sky over this land, which grows like Irish flowers, he feels good, but the condition of this particular land isn't good at all. He finds flowers blooming over the stones and growing taller by five inches. This is the anarchism that he finds on this land.
The speaker describes the natural disorder in this particular land, where the flowers even bloom and grow over the stone. But when he observes the nighttime moon that skids down and its rays fall on the people's houses' walls, the beautiful rays of the moon even speak of these social negativities of people prevalent in society. People's uselessness can be easily noticed through their so-called political aspects, promotional posters on walls, their variety of reasonings and rituals, etc. Seeing all these social negativities among people in his place, the speaker grows soft. His softness (anger) grows like a light breeze that makes him feel mentally disturbed to find the environmental disorders in his place. He feels mentally tired of seeing this lawless city with pollution everywhere. The moon even expresses the story of old lampposts and odorous gutters through its song in this lawless city. The speaker has put forward the moon's explanation for this ugly-looking and lawless place. The moon over this particular land even feels a shame to explore the actual state of this seamless land.
STANZA TWO
Here in the second stanza, the speaker experiences the miserable condition of homeless and hungry children in the fascinating city of Thamel. He grows soft to hear their cries under the bat-bearing trees of Kesharmahal. These children have been spending their miserable nights under those trees in Kesharmahal, where blood-sucking mammals are present. This scene makes the speaker so sad. The dazzling, as well as fascinating, city of Kathmandu and its rich people seem quite indifferent towards innocent and hungry children. The concept of humanity is somewhat missing among these so-called rich people. The speaker grows soft when he returns from a confusing state (mele), where he feels difficulty getting an idea of whether there is a celebration or hunger. He finds the ceremony in a fascinating place that dances with mad steps. He finds these mad steps in the unwedded garden of history. All these mad steps have been growing around protruding rocks.
STANZA THREE
In this stanza, the speaker becomes soft again to look at human affairs. He has various feelings regarding these anomalies and tries to leave his deep-dented words on the pages of white sheets. He has a lot of ideas to bring about changes, but his ideas are limited to the white pages. He finds negativity the most when he turns and looks at these people in his society as being alone. He writes his feelings on the white sheets, seeing the bad activities of all people. He doesn't find a proper place to express his soft storm, except on the white sheets. This activity of the speaker reflects the dissatisfaction of most Nepalese people, who have immense feelings against these negativities prevalent in Nepalese society.
Next, the speaker becomes soft again when he sees a small, forlorn (deserted) child in the corridors of violent history. He seems miserable and lonely. He is carrying a radio transistor around his neck and running here and there in search of his mother, who is missing in the lawless streets of violent history. The child is crying a lot to find his mother. This particular scene reflects the bitter reality of this barbaric land where mothers, sisters, etc. are obligated to indulge themselves in illegal activities. Many Nepali females are part of this lost world. They have become the victims of their poverty or the victims of crime.
STANZA FOUR
In the next stanza, the speaker becomes soft again to see an illegal act in his surroundings. He sees a man who is mercilessly beaten by unknown criminals for no reason in front of his family members.
The speaker describes this time as no sensible time when any crime can be done fearlessly. This scene reflects this particular lawless land where there is no guarantee of security of people's lives and criminals are fearlessly committing their crimes. The speaker feels so sad to find such a barbaric act of humans against humans.
STANZA FIVE
Next, the speaker again presents the inhuman act. The speaker becomes soft again to see a blood-stained shirt (of a wounded man) on this barbaric and lawless land under the moon in a far corner. The person is seriously wounded, and he is yelling out for help with his bruised lips in the ear of this earth. His cry cannot be heard. He cries in pain and asks for help, but the people are so indifferent. No one cares for him or his pain. This land under the moon is the land of history and dreams, but people on this land are quite far from the concept of humanity. All the people are showy and live their so-called lives selfishly. All of them don't have feelings regarding others' lives. They are playing the game of hide and seek in these open museums (with different human residents) of human times. Here, their time is referred to as human times, but there is no concept regarding humanity. Everyone is living so-called human lives wearing a fake mask of humanity.
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STANZA SIX
Next, the speaker grows soft when the given words (promises) are ignored in this land. This is the land of promises, where many promises are made for the welfare of the people. The speaker feels so bad to find those people who give a variety of words and forget to fulfil them. According to him, words or promises are only made to deceive gullible people. These words haven't been listened to and have always remained unfulfilled. The speaker threatens the acts of so-called leaders and warns them about the consequences of their acts. He talks about storms and their Leela.
Due to these fake promises and their acts, the speaker makes them realise the storms and their Leela (a divine play) in this barbaric land of silent stone. This suggests the deception of so-called leaders against the common Nepali people.
STANZA SEVEN
Soft Storm by Abhi Subedi
Here in this stanza, the speaker talks about a storm (anger) that has transformed from disparity to hopeful aspects. This stanza presents the speaker's inner storm and its transformation. Here, we find some of the positive aspects of this land. According to him, he saw the crocuses over the stone on the last moonlit night when storms moved slowly in the narrow lanes. At the time, he too walked alone in rainy tears in a very thoughtful manner. Next, he even found a little appearance of the sun, which rose a little in the sky and then melted and formed a beautiful rainbow. These lines reflect the tremendous concept of transformation from evil to goodness. Apart from all these problems prevalent in the land, there is hope for good aspects.
Later, the speaker talks about his storm (anger). He says that his storm keeps on increasing into violent, uncontrolled anger over various things that he has experienced in human courtyards. His anger increases against silent pages, which are useless and govern this land; silent stones where speechlessness has made humans dumb; silent deserted shirts that carry bloody war memories; silent ruined of gods' dwell, the place where dances and songs are buried under helpless divine debris (ruins). All these things make the speaker quite angry.
STANZA EIGHT
Here in this stanza, the speaker has talked to the people of his place, saying that the soft is what they saw in the form of violence and disorder in their surroundings. He has a kind of respect for the people's moonlight that falls upon this particular land. He believes that the violence and disorders here in this land have been created by the madness that has messed up everything negatively. He blames time as mad time, which has created the worst situation for all. Due to this madness, everything we see and live with has become worse. Everything in this land of disorders seems to be the opposite. Here in this land, the flowers are seen growing over the stone, the moon sings the history of the land, rushing under the old lamppost and over the barren as well as deforested land, and birds are seen singing about bizarre journeys over this warming land, rhododendrons are seen growing in winter, Mother Earth seems saddened and sings about fearful and mysterious calmness in the songs of sad birds, etc. All these abnormalities have created this disorder here on this land.
STANZA NINE
In the final stanza, the speaker wishes for himself and expresses his desire to be in these particularly hard times. According to him, he wants to melt like a rainbow in these hard times. He adds that his soft storm (inner anger) remains in this mini-sky of these people's land and even dances quite disturbingly in an uneasy lake. Here he means to say that his soft storm keeps on observing and criticising the flaws of the people of this barbaric land.
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