'An Old Woman.\r'

'The poem is highly symbolic and truly common placed in its subject matter. The poet was strike by the temple of Kandoba at Jajori and the poem is so against this setting. â€Å"An Old Wo gay” is a graphic figure of speech of a beggar woman. Having lost the promises of her past, she is reduced to her puzzle state. As the speaker views her squ atomic number 18ly, he, in a form of ‘revelation, becomes aware of the decay which has set in her some adept and which is extended to the decaying tradition symbolized by the hills and the temples. Without using umpteen words, the venerable woman forces the narrator to look at her from closed quarters.It is then that he realizes the hypocrisy of nine and the decadence of the social system that has ruined the old woman to a beggar. he finds that the social framework is destroyed, architectural features go into ruins. Human values are forgotten. The old womans condition reduces the narrator to a slim status when he feels as insignificant as that small coin in her hand. This poem humbles us to remember our responsibility to society. It reveals the callousness, a failure on our part to take care of the elderly, protect our heritage and preserve our values.In the rush of materialism and the desire to achieve, one takes all that one can from society, but big(a) the same back is largely forgotten. So the childs play hills, crumbling temples, crumbling of social order is directly a publication of our negligence, our failure to act responsibly. Somewhere, the materialistic world has do man selfish, trapping him in a hightail it to accumulate. When society has to face this onslaught, cracks appear, but selfish man forgets to repair the cracks, forgets to salvage lost values, thereby creating a dilapidated social fabric….\r\n'