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Soft Storm Poem by Abhi Subedi
Today, I am going to tell you about the important topics of this important poem of class 12. I request all of you to read and understand carefully. After you finish reading this article, you will feel very easy to write answers to all the important questions regarding this poem.
SEAMLESS CITY
Here, in the first topic of the poem, when we talk about the seamless city, the speaker has called Kathmandu city a seamless city. The meaning of seamless city is a city without any control or restriction. When the speaker looks at different sides of this city, the speaker becomes soft. Here “soft” means gentle/sad. We can also call this softness as the speaker’s disappointment. This disappointment has appeared in the speaker because of this city, its people and many negative aspects.
Now the main reason why the speaker calls this city seamless is the different aspects of this city. In this city, any unpleasant incident can happen at any time. There is no guarantee of life here. Even in the mysterious peace, there is a strange kind of fear. This city is full of criminal activities. Chaos is seen everywhere. The rules and laws of the state do not work here. Nothing is reliable here. At night, in the moon’s light, political posters are seen everywhere on the walls of houses, but political instability here has reached its extreme. In this uncontrolled city or lawless city, you can find negativity on people’s house walls, their customs, their reasons, their so-called political beliefs - in everything. Criminal activities are done openly here. This lawless city has reached the extreme level of pollution. The moon even sings a satirical song about the stinking garbage, old gutters, old lamp posts with hanging wires, etc. The moon is the only direct witness of this city.
Let me tell you for your information – even flowers bloom on stones in this land. This can have two possible meanings. Number one - a thin ray of hope in a chaotic city. Number two - the land of this lawless city has also become impure, where flowers are blooming on stone, not in soil.
THAMEL AND HUNGRY KIDS
Here again the speaker has become soft or disappointed. The main reason for his disappointment is the terrible condition of poor hungry children. In Thamel, the richest area of Nepal itself, the speaker becomes very sad seeing the terrible condition of poor children. In this shiny rich city, there is a lot of money, but there is no humanity in anyone. In this rich city, poor hungry children are crying with hunger, but there are no kind people. People here have become very indifferent. These children are crying with empty stomachs. There is no one to listen to their painful cries. They spend their painful nights under the trees of Keshar Mahal, where blood-sucking bats live. The condition of these poor hungry children is extremely pitiful.
UNWEDDED GARDEN OF HISTORY
Again the speaker becomes soft or disappointed saying that the land of this country has become impure. According to him, the land of this country is the land of history and dreams. He has called the land of this country the “unwedded garden of history”. The meaning of unwedded garden of history is a garden or land that no one touched or spoiled in the past - a pure and holy garden. According to the speaker, everyone in the present has destroyed this pure unwedded garden of history. They have made this holy land impure. The unwedded garden of history is a religious garden, but on this religious land, people are trampling and making the land impure with their mad steps.
Let me tell you for your information -“unwedded” means pure; it is not considered pure after marriage. According to the speaker, the people of this city have made this holy and pure land impure with their mad steps. Their dance, that is, their negative activities, have made this unwedded garden of history dirty.
VIOLENT CORRIDORS OF HISTORY
Before talking about this topic, I want to say something about the speaker’s disappointment. Since he is an ordinary Nepali, he cannot fight alone against all the negative things in society. To calm the disappointment in the mind of an ordinary Nepali against these negative things, he takes the help of a white sheet and pours his anger on that page. He tries to calm his mind’s anger by writing about different negative things in society.
Now let us talk about this heart-touching topic. In this topic we find the speaker as a soft storm. Here his softness has changed into a storm - which means a lot of anger has risen in him. The reason for this anger is a very touching scene that he finds in the violent corridors of history of this lawless city. He sees a poor fornlorn small boy who is searching for his mother in the violent corridors of history. This boy has a radio transistor around his neck and he is continuously crying “Mother! Mother!” and searching for his mother in the violent corridors of history. This scene fills the speaker with a lot of anger. This scene is the bitter truth of today’s Nepal. Because of empty stomachs, poverty and responsibilities, thousands of mothers have disappeared in the violent corridors of history of this land. Because of their terrible condition, they have become involved in criminal and immoral work. Because of the empty stomachs of themselves and their children, they have even sold their bodies. Because of various difficulties, Nepali daughters and mothers have been forced to do immoral work and have disappeared in these violent corridors of history. Seeing this bitter reality, a real storm rises in the heart of an ordinary Nepali.
NO SENSIBLE TIME
If we look at this topic, we again find the speaker as a soft storm. He becomes extremely angry when he sees an innocent person being badly beaten in front of his own house and family members without any reason. Who the beaters are - nobody knows. Why they beat - the reason is not clear. They came for no reason, beat and left. This is injustice and such injustice happens in this lawless city. The speaker calls this time “no sensible time” – which means a time where there is lack of sense. Because of uncontrolled people, political instability, collapse of law, show of power and such negative things, unwanted incidents happen in this land. This time is not a sensible time. In this time, there is no guarantee of life. Any unpleasant incident can happen at any moment. Beating and killing can happen anytime in this lawless city. In this time, no one uses sense. Everyone is guided by lack of sense.
HUMAN TIMES
In this topic the speaker has again become soft – that is, sad or disappointed. He talks about human times when humanity has completely disappeared. The relationship between people has become very indifferent. People are very far from the concept of humanity and hold different thoughts. The concept of humanity - that all Nepalis are one - has disappeared among the people of this lawless city. The speaker sees a heart-touching scene here. In this land of history and dreams, far under the moon, a man completely covered in blood is struggling on the ground, crying for help. But there is no one on this land to help him. With his cut lips he is begging in the ears of Mother Earth - “Save me, help me!” But there are no selfless hands to help him. In this land of dreams and history, human times have become very weak and loose. Where the concept of humanity between people has disappeared. No one cares for anyone. No one understands anyone’s pain. In this open museum of human times, people are playing hide-and-seek with each other. Mercy, love, compassion and humanity - no one has them.
FALSE PROMISES
In this topic I want to say something about the speaker’s disappointment. The speaker becomes very sad when he remembers the so-called leaders of the country and their promises and words. These so-called leaders can talk a lot, can give big-big promises, but they never fulfil the demands of the people. After reaching power, they forget their words and do not look at poor people.
Because of this dishonesty, the speaker warns that one day we will see a big Leela of all these cheaters on this stone land.
He says - my storm is soft, that is, my anger is gentle right now. But it slowly slowly grows when I see these negative things in society. His soft storm slowly grows when he sees the silent pages of the constitution, the quiet stones of this land, the forlorn blood-filled shirts that carry memories of war, silent decay in the homes of gods – that is, the destruction and ruin of holy places and traditional beliefs. According to him, all these things, Nepali dances and songs are helplessly buried under human cruelty in the human courtyard.
STRANGE CHANGES
The speaker sees strange changes in this land, such as –
flowers blooming on stones,
history running under old lamp posts and on barren land – the moonlight hums about it,
birds singing strange journey songs over hot land,
rhododendrons blooming in winter,
Mother Earth telling about violence and terror through the songs of sad birds.
All these things together have created the speaker’s soft storm.
SPEAKER'S WILL IN HARD TIMES
In these difficult times, the speaker wants to melt like a rainbow. According to him - in the small and uncomfortable waves of the so-called people, my gentle storm dances.
CONCLUSION
Thus, Abhi Subedi's poem Soft Storm presents the chaotic and insecure times of the Maoist conflict and reveals the various emotions that are present in the mind of a common Nepali.
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