One-eyed

Hello everyone I am Dhruvita Dhameliya. Today i write Blog on poetry analysis of 'one eyed ' by Meena Kandasamy. As part of thinking activity given by our professor Dr. Dilip Barad sir.

Meena Kandasamy

The poem is by Meena Kandasamy. Ilavenil Meena Kandasamy is an Indian poet, fiction writer, translator and activist from Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.

She represented India at the University of Iowa's International Writing Program and was a Charles Wallace India Trust Fellow at the University of Kent, Canterbury, United Kingdom. She writes columns for platforms like Outlook India and The Hindu.

Meena Kandasamy takes on Hindu myths in her politically-charged poetry. In her poems she addresses issues of caste and untouchability—something that stems from her being a Dalit, considered the lowest and most oppressed of India's castes and formerly known as "untouchables".

Her famous works :

Novels:

1)The Gypsy Goddess

2)When I Hit You: Or, A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife

3)Exquisite Cadavers

Poetry :

1)Touch

2)Ms Militancy

 'One eyed' by Meena Kandasamy :

the pot sees just another noisy child

the glass sees an eager and clumsy hand

the water sees a parched throat slaking thirst

but the teacher sees a girl breaking the rule

the doctor sees a case of medical emergency

the school sees a potential embarrassment

the press sees a headline and a photofeature

dhanam sees a world torn in half.

her left eye, lid open but light slapped away,

the price for a taste of that touchable water.

One Eyed, the short poem highlights various atrocities committed against the dalit women. Meena emphasizes the humanitarian attitude of inanimate things which human beings lack. The pot, the

glass and the water quench the thirst of a person while the teacher, the doctor, the school and the press are indifferent to the needs of the people. The dalit woman Dhanam was “torn in half” when she tries to get a pot of water at the cost of her left eye.

Here we can sew that who have vision power and voice to speak something they don't say anything and just found their own benefits but the thing and objects have not vision though they able to sew the need of people. 

The teacher who sew the girl who break rules , doctor sew medical imergency because her one eyed broken down, school sew embarrassment and press sew the headlines which came in newspaper and other side the objects such as glass, water and pot sew the actual need of human more than discussing cast.

Conclusion : 

So , Meena Kandasamy is talking about society in which we lived and observed everything but never raised questions because somewhere we are involved in this not directly but indirectly.