Q. How are the human sensibilities examined in the poem? Analyze.
ANSWER
The poem 'Parrot in the Cage' is written by the Nepali Prolific Poet Lekhnath Paudyal. The poem is originally written in Nepali language. The poem is an English translation by Laxmi Prasad Devkota. Paudyal has written this poem in beautiful style. Since the poem has the lyrical quality, the poem is known by heart by many people. The poem metaphorically reminds the condition of Nepalese people during Rana Regime. The Parrot laments on its own condition with the deep rooted pain. Though the bird is a small living thing in a cage, it allures the whole scenario of the man's condition.
The Parrot is a speaking persona that calls himself 'a twice-born' child', means the Brahmin child in the Rana time. The poem can be interpreted in the multiple dimensions. But, from the perspective of human treating the animals/ birds with the faded human sensibilities become more apparent. The bird calls the whole situation with its own fate. It is just because of the bird's fate it is caged inside the bars. The bird is alone and it thinks that he cannot even sing his pains to which the bird understands his language. Mankind gives him food and shelter but food and shelter is not his appropriate food and shelter.
The bird thinks it is just because of the lack of human sensibilities the bird is suffering in the cage. He fells that though he is safe, his dreams are vanished and he is always in fear. He is not able to enjoy the original, true wilderness of nature and greenery just because of the human insensibilities. He thinks the wildlife is happier than his life.
The bird remembers its parents. They might be in the tears. The fate has oppressed all the situation. The bird finds that there are only his enemies all around him. The bird cannot rely on the human beings. Humankind has kept him inside the books. He desires to fly freely in the sky enjoying the whole his life The 'boundless blue' is his territory rather than the narrow cage. The bird understands that the human feelings, emotions and kindness are all bounded by the human selfishness.
The bird has the desires to break the cage and run away The cage has played a vital role to make it crippled. The bird feels defeated and loses it heart in front of the iron cage. The bird desires to die rather than such type "of livings. These all types of feelings are caused by the behaviour of mankind People scold, thrash and abuse the bird because the helpless caged bird would be able to do nothing for them. The bird's monologue concludes with the calling of the god where he says that he does not want to live in this world. He regards the life of parrot is curse; he senses the life is dark and exploited by the human kind.
Though we think that the life of a parrot is beautiful; we try to pet it. But the perspective of a parrot towards its own life is miserable. When human sensibilities are gone, man keeps the bird behind the bar, the real feeling of the bird comes out. Non in real, loses the co-existing sensibility and imposes own's right to the animals and impose the human rights to that innocent bird without taking care about anything.
Q. How does the poem represent universal appeal of humanitarian?
ANSWER
The poem raises the voice of humanitarian behaviour. The persona of the poem is a caged bird. The birds is the only symbol of the people who have been the vitreous of trials and tribulations. People who experience the bad and unjustifiable behaviours by an another human kind. Though the poetry is written in the Nepalese background, the poem represents the whole human phenomenon where we see the representation of the voices of deprived
The bird is kept in the cage. It gets only the facilities and provisions that the so called high class society people desire to give him The owner of the parrot is not much in the state from where we can understand the real pain of the parrot. The parrot experiences the pain alienation, hunger. thirst and yearns for the true wilderness. The natural greenery is the real dewling of the bird. But the bird is kept behind the bars. The bars only symbolize the limitations and the restrictions that the humankind has put for it. The bird doesnot have the freedom and choice.
The humanitarian behaviour doesnot support these all activities. The humankind who have kept the bird behind the bars doesnot have any feeling of the bird This is the story of whole world. The world is made up of haves and haves not. The people who think superior to other try to always enslave them. They boast/ think themselves superior and make rules in favour of themselves. The so called aristocratic families never dare to think from the perspectives of the poor people. The bird in the poem yearns for the death rather than to live in that situation. In the same way people from the deprived life chose to die rather than to struggle with in such miserable condition.
Q. How is the human kind shown in the poem? ANSWER
The poet, through the poetic persona, the parrot wants to share that the whole human race is hostile to the virtues. The humankind exploits the deprived to the virtues. The humankind exploits the deprived one up to the last drop of the blood. The bird doesnot expect the next life in the form of the bird. The bird, wants to live in the world, the world without human being. It is not only appeal of a bird, but also the representation of the humanitarian voice that every humankind raises for the freedom equality, kindness, caring and love to all.
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