Grandmother Poem Dramatic Situation

 The child narrator of poem come with his father for funeral of his granny. The village grandmother lived is far far away with hard destination. Because of that father and son reached too late to the funeral. At the moment granny's body take away. That night child saw the father on bed look at the wall and crying secretly and silently. This is how he express hidden sorrow.

This poem's setting is uncleaned landscape and hard roads in the Indian village. Characterization is minimal. It's characters are Indian. Major characters are a father and a son. Maybe grandmother. But she was dead. Minor characters are neighbors, cousins, relatives, friends and other closers who came to funeral.

The plot of this poem is Mahapatra emphasizes psychological grief, toleration acceptance of sorrow as it is.

And the conflict in the poem is narrow roads among fields where father and son couldn't walk. They are fill with disgusting animals like like crabs, snails. And also it is a dark time because of dawn. Those facts are time wasting.

The way this poem describe roads, bus fill with people, rain are visual imageries imply in the poem. This is how famous literato deals with poem's dramatic situation.

Questions on Commonwealth Poetry

1) Who are commonwealth poets?  What is the problem they discuss most of the time ?

2) How Indian culture describes in some of the poems ?

3) What is the tone of the poem '' Night of Scorpion'' ?