Std. 12th. Small Town and Rivers. Poetic Appreciation.

Small Town and Rivers. Poetic Appreciation.

"Small Town and Rivers"

The poem "Small Towns and The River’ is composed by the Indian poetess Mamang Dai. The theme of the poem is mortality, life vs death, eternity, nature, and spirituality. The theme of mortality is the dominant theme of the poem. 

The poem describes a landscape and Nature where the river is a dominant phenomenon. The poem has figurative language, the poetic device like various figures of speech used by the poet like Alliteration, Antithesis, Inversion, Metaphor, Onomatopoeia, Personification, Repetition, Simile, and Transferred Epithet to enhance the beauty of the poem. Personification is a prominent figure of speech in the poem where human qualities are attributed to the river "the river has a soul", The poem describes the love for nature and the attachment of the poetess to her hometown. The poetess also believes in spirituality, the people from the northeast believe that the soul of their beloved is immortal and dwells in the company of nature. The special feature of the poem is that along with regular figures' speech the poem is known for Imagery and Symbolism. The poetess also showed her concern about the development and the destruction of nature due to modern development.

The poem gives the message to the readers that we must protect and preserve the beauty of nature.

I like this poem as its about nature and the protection of nature