An Old Woman

AN OLD WOMAN
ARUN KOLATKAR

INTRODUCTION
The meter narrates a common experience. At all tourist place you will meet a unauthorised tourist guide like the doddering woman in the poem. They need coin and will wiretap you. They even address to give you some service in lieu of the money you give them. Generally tourists give them something to get rid of them.
The poem begins with a commonplace experience, except ends in a revelation. The gaga woman is not an ordinary woman. She is the representative of the degradation of humanity. She has punch holes for her eyes. When the narrator looks at her, he is floor by her mournful condition. It appears as if she is going to fall apart.

SUMMARY
A tourist visits a hill. There he comes across an old woman. She grabs his sleeve and asks 50 paisa. She promises to canvass him to the horseshoe shrine. But the tourist has already been there. He tells her to let him alone. She is persistent and keeps pestering him. The tourist, being fed up of her decides to be firm and turns round to scold her. He is shocked to look at her face. She has two bullet holes for her eyes. Her skin is wrinkled. thusly the poet realises that her pitiable condition is the result of all-round decay. Our hills, temples and traditions have degraded. The old woman has no means to survive.



Her family and society dont seem to care for her. She can do nothing but beg. She gets small coins for alms which can hardly support her. The narrator matte up ashamed. What a pity! An old woman is forced to go begging and no one is ashamed of it. The tourist feels he is insignificant and helpless before her.

Paraphrase
1. An old woman gets engage of your sleeve and begs for a fifty-paisa coin. She is like a self-appointed guide. She promises to take you to the horseshoe shrine. You want to get rid of her, but she continues to pester you. She does not let go your sleeve so she continues to determine you.

2. You have already seen the horseshoe shrine. So you tell the old...If you want to get a full essay, order it on our website: Orderessay



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