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"For, he who writes, my love, his papers makes black
With the initials of his own heart attack".
A further dimension is added to the meaning in this stanza. Before he
died, a dedicated poet should leave an indelible imprint on the face of
humanity. Like a missionary, he should preach love and freedom. His
poetry should be the 'daily' bread for those who hunger for peace, love
and emancipation.
This stanza is pregnant with figurative devices; similes,
metaphors, antithesis, and assonance, which augment the emotive impact
of the poem. Poetic creativity is as intense, imperishable, and
universal as digging holes into the earth's crust. The poet's poems,
in which he has poured out his feelings and emotions, are assimilised
to a full-grown apple, as red as his uninvincible heart, upon which
"children in slum alleys fall a-nibbling"; or "loaves to satisfy those
who hunger for bread and freedom". There is no regular rhyme scheme,
but the third line rhymes with the fifth, seventh, and the last.
To sum up, this poem begins with an obligatory meaning inferred
from the word 'mamndia‘.-, which designates an 'inhibition'. The
irrepressible tension created by such an inhibition is relaxed towards
the end of the first stanza. The sub-obligatory meanings suggested by
'la-tashhacii' and 'tarria saki', which occur at the beginning of the
second and third stanzas, are dependent on and complementary to the
skeletal meaning in the first stanza. No redundancy could be
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