10th English I am the Land Poem Summary in English and Kannada
I am the Land Poem Summary in English
The planet Earth speaks to human beings. The planet Earth is the symbol of patience. She waits always. She mocks at the human beings who say that they possess her. Man shouts and raises hue and cry over this good Earth but the Mother Earth waits with patience. The Earth watches/stares with the lights of the car parked on it. The poetess has used this extraordinary tool of perception.
The Planet Earth continues saying that someone ploughs and plants life. She gives fruits, grass, trees. Children delight and dance. Someone spends time singing the planet is also a source of joy and happiness.
The planet worries when people come with guns which becomes chainlink necklace (fence). The very act of killing, going for war and creating boundaries suffocate her. She stares with car lot eyes again. Still she waits. Then at last she goes for self-assertion and tells the human world.
“YOU CAN NOT PUT A FENCE
AROUND THE PLANET EARTH.”
I am the Land Poem Summary in Kannada
I am the Land Poem About the Author
Marina de Bellagenta : Marina was born near Milan, Italy in 1949. She received a B.A. in poetry and recording media from Mills College and an MFA in Visual Arts from the University of California at San Diego. She was a founder of the feminist publishing house, Kelsey Street Press of Berkely in 1997. Her poetry has appeared in anthologies and magazines in Canada, Italy, Britain, Australia and the USA.
I am the Land Poem Word Meanings
- I am the land : speaker/ voice of the poem
- own : possess
- stare : look at the things fixedly for a long time
- tickles : ploughs (here)
- chokes : suffocates, makes one breathless
- chainlink necklace : fence (here)
- car lot eyes : extraordinary tools of perception as if the earth were staring with the lights of the car parked on it