A River by A.K. Ramanujan | JSSC CGL | meg 07 | IGNOU | explanation line by line | figures of speech

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A River
In Madurai,
city of temples and poets,
who sang of cities and temples,
every summer
a river dries to a trickle
in the sand,
baring the sand ribs,
straw and women's hair
clogging the watergates
at the rusty bars
under the bridges with patches
of repair all over them
the wet stones glistening like sleepy
crocodiles, the dry ones
shaven water-buffaloes lounging in the sun
The poets only sang of the floods.
He was there for a day
when they had the floods.
People everywhere talked
of the inches rising,
of the precise number of cobbled steps
run over by the water, rising
on the bathing places,
and the way it carried off three village houses,
one pregnant woman
and a couple of cows
named Gopi and Brinda as usual.
New poets still quoted
the old poets, but no one spoke
in verse
of the pregnant woman
drowned, with perhaps twins in her,
kicking at blank walls
even before birth.
He said:
the river has water enough
to be poetic
about only once a year
and then
it carries away
in the first half-hour
three village houses,
a couple of cows
named Gopi and Brinda
and one pregnant woman
expecting identical twins
with no moles on their bodies,
with different coloured diapers
to tell them apart.

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Subscribed your channel way back in 2018 when I was in my graduation first year....just one day found your video and loved the way you explained just everything needed and not just the meaning or the summary of the works. Today after years I went nowhere but your channel to search for this poem as I have filled JSSC CGL form. After watching this video I went to other videos for this but none matched the analysis of yours. Thank you so much and please come up with more topics of paper 2 for JSSC CGL 🙏

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Thanks a lot for this wonderful comment. Did you see other videos of english paper 2 JSSC CGL 2023 ?

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@@annu.1220 Some are there. Remaining will be soon uploaded.

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Wonderful to see new thumbnails You can have separate color for novel, poem, short story and drama Also please upload some classes on essays in the syllabus Have some live streams as well for MCQ

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Thank you. I have made them myself 😊.

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They're very beautiful. The one in the snake in the grass is not yet updated.

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Please cover the drama and phonetics part of JSSC CGL.Thank you!

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PHONETICS | EXPLAINED IN HINDI: kzbin.info/aero/PLXnyiGkh9VmO9IjaPmV0bqoYXEyToV1iL

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Last tym I prepared with you. Once again I am here please cover short story first.. I want to hear 'the flood' with your voice and skilled expression😊

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Mam are you going to covel the English literature portion for jssc cgl? We are preparing for that

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The flood by kamala markandya is not available anywhere..mentioned in the jssc cgl syllabus in the short story section..can you please name the book it is part of?

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@@Swarnshikha I had guessed it..coz everywhere I searched for 'the flood',this book came up..thank you so much.

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