When one thinks about the country India the first thing that will come to their mind is their rich, colorful clothes and animals that are part of their culture. Most do not think of the literature in India, and how life is incorporated into their writing. A common theme throughout Indian literature is life, and literary elements were used to reveal themes throughout their writing. A theme of pain in the narrator 's life was explained more to the reader through the use of personification, repetition, and irony. These literary elements make the narrator 's pain become more prominent and have more of an impact on the reader.
Personification appeared often throughout Faiz Ahmed Faiz’s poems. The use of personification throughout his poems
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By using repetition it adds more meaning to how the narrator is feeling. There are places that have sentimental value to the narrator, and the reader can see this through repetition. “[G]ate is still open” and “no gate opens” the reader can tell that gates are have an important meaning to the narrator since they are repeated (Faiz 551-552). Also since the gate is repeated in a positive and a negative way, the reader can see the connection the narrator has with feeling pain and the gates. The relationship the narrator has can be explained through repetition. The pain is greater than the relationship, “this night is the tree of pain, greater than you or me,” and, “this night, the tree of pain, vaster than you or me” ( Faiz 552). Since the narrator refers to the, “night, the tree of pain”, could mean that the narrator has levels and parts of pain that are like branches of a tree. It also reveals what causes pain for the narrator. “My tormenter, my love, be near me” shows the reader the narrator had loved someone, but they left the narrator (Faiz 553-554). The pain will not be perfectly gone unless the person the narrator loves is with him. Along with personification and repetition the author used irony to show the theme of pain in the narrator.
Along with Faiz Ahmed Faiz using personification and repetition throughout his poems, he also used irony. Irony is normally used in a
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