SUMMARY- Servants
In this
poem the author talks about the nature and condition of servants who live in
the city. He says that they come from an incomplete plot which is a reference
to their less than ideal life story which somehow stops in the middle. They are
people who sell their farming lands and end up working as servants in
households or worse to earn a living in the city. They all have the same thing
going on in their lives. Everything from waking up to sleeping is planned. The loss
of individuality is stressed upon in this poem. The author says that the aura
around them is dark and they are non-entities. He says that animals have more
personality or individuality than them. Servants are treated less than animals.
Their lives have no purpose. They do not dream nor do they have desires. Their eyes
are blank. Their mouths hang slightly open without knowing what to do.
The poem by
Gieve Patel is like a collection of pictures portraying the appalling condition
of the poor in India. The poor of India who predominantly work as servants. There
is no promotion nor there is any reprieve. They live like non entities, work
like animals and sleep like the dead.
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