'Ecology' is from Ramanujan's 1986 volume 'Second Sight' The speaker may be the poet or an imaginary mother-lover. He's angry because his mother gets migraines from the Red Champak's pollen when it blooms, causing her to vomit. Yellow pollen spreads a heavy, suffocating fragrance. Even the speaker's doors can't keep the smell out. The house's walls can absorb sounds, sights, human voices, and new-shoe noises. They can't stop Champak pollen fog.
The son wants to cut down the tree in his mother's garden, but his mother stops him. She says the tree is as old as her and was fertilised by a passing bird, a good omen. The tree provides many baskets of flowers to offer to her gods and to 'her daughters and daughter's daughters' every year, but it gives one line of cousins a terrible migraine as a legacy. Yellow pollen fog is thick pollen dust in the air that covers the earth like fog.
This poem shows Ramanujan's interest in the family as a theme of his poetry. His memories bring up his family, especially his selfless mother. In the poem, he mentions Hindu gods and beliefs. The irony is shown when the mother protests cutting down the tree while suffering from a migraine. She's emotional about the tree, saying it's as old as her.
'Ecology is a one-sentence poem. Each stanza has a theme. The ideas flow from stanza to stanza. Irony: She's angry about cutting down the tree. The actual meaning of 'Ecology' is not followed here, but the poet seems to imply that a particular tree may have both negative and positive factors and therefore should not be cut down.
'Ecology' is from Ramanujan's 1986 volume 'Second Sight' The speaker may be the poet or an imaginary mother-lover. He's angry because his mother gets migraines from the Red Champak's pollen when it blooms, causing her to vomit. Yellow pollen spreads a heavy, suffocating fragrance. Even the speaker's doors can't keep the smell out. The house's walls can absorb sounds, sights, human voices, and new-shoe noises. They can't stop Champak pollen fog.
The son wants to cut down the tree in his mother's garden, but his mother stops him. She says the tree is as old as her and was fertilised by a passing bird, a good omen. The tree provides many baskets of flowers to offer to her gods and to 'her daughters and daughter's daughters' every year, but it gives one line of cousins a terrible migraine as a legacy. Yellow pollen fog is thick pollen dust in the air that covers the earth like fog.
This poem shows Ramanujan's interest in the family as a theme of his poetry. His memories bring up his family, especially his selfless mother. In the poem, he mentions Hindu gods and beliefs. The irony is shown when the mother protests cutting down the tree while suffering from a migraine. She's emotional about the tree, saying it's as old as her.
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