Voice of the Unwanted Girl
Sujata Bhatt’s Biography
Ø Sujata Bhatt was born
on 6 May 1956, Ahmedabad and brought up in Pune until 1968, when she immigrated
to United States with her family.
Ø Occupation- Poet
Ø She is known as ‘one
of the finest poets alive today’.
Ø Works- The One Who
Goes Away, Monkey Shadows, Point no Point, Pure Lizard, etc
Ø Awards- Commonwealth
Poetry Prize, Alice Hunt Bartlett Prize, Cholmondeley Award, Tratti Poetry
Prize
Ø ‘Voice of the Unwanted
Girl’ has been taken from her anthology of poems ‘My Mother’s Way of Wearing a
Sari’.
VOICE OF THE UNWANTED GIRL POEM
Mother, I am the one
You sent away
When the doctor told you
I would be
a girl - In the end they had to
give me an injection to kill me.
Before I died I heard
the traffic rushing outside, the monsoon
slush, the wind sulking through
your beloved Mumbai -
I could have clutched the neon blue
no one wanted --
No one wanted
To touch me - except later in the autopsy room
when they knew my mouth would not search
for anything - and my head could be measured and bent cut apart.
I looked like a sliced pomegranate.
The fruit you never touched.
Mother, I am the one you sent away.
When the doctor told you
I would be a girl - your second girl.
Afterwards, as soon as you could
you put on your grass- green sari
the orange stems of the parijatak blossoms
glistened in your hair-
Afterwards
everyone smiled.
But now I ask you
to look for me, mother,
look for me because
I won't come to you in your dreams.
Look for me, mother, look
because I won't become a flower
I won't turn into a butterfly
And I am not a part of anyone's song.
Look, mother,
look for the place where you have sent me.
Look for the unspeakable.
for the place that can never be described.
Look for me, mother, because
this is what you have done.
Look, for me, mother, because
This is not 'God's will'.
Look for me, mother
because I smell of formaldehyde-
I smell of formaldehyde
and still, I wish you would look
for me, mother.
VOICE OF THE UNWANTED GIRL SUMMARY IN ENGLISH
The speaker in the
poem is an unwanted girl who was destroyed before she was born. She is speaking
to her mother.
The girl tells her
mother how she destroyed her. The doctors told her that the baby would be a girl. She
put on her green sari
and went to hospital to have the child destroyed because the girl was unwanted. The mother already
had one daughter. The doctors gave an injection to kill the girl. The mother
did not even care to look at the girl.
After the girl was
destroyed everyone was happy.
The murdered girl
child asks her to look for her in vain because she was lost for ever. She will
not grow up into a beautiful girl to be admired by someone. She tells her
mother that she has acted against the will of God. God wanted her to live and
grow up naturally.
VOICE OF THE UNWANTED GIRL SUMMARY IN HINDI
कविता में वक्ता एक
अनचाही लड़की है जिसे पैदा होने से पहले ही नष्ट कर दिया गया। वह अपनी माँ से
संबोधित है।
लड़की अपनी माँ से
कह रही है कि उसने उसे कैसे मारा। डॉक्टरों ने उसे बता दिया था कि शिशु लड़की
होगी। वह अपनी हरी साड़ी पहन कर बच्ची को नष्ट कराने के लिए अस्पताल गई क्योंकि
लड़की अनचाही थी। माँ के पास पहले ही एक बेटी थी।
डॉक्टरों ने बच्ची
को मारने के लिए एक इंजेक्शन दिया। माँ ने लड़की को देखना तक न चाहा।
लड़की के नष्ट हो
जाने के पश्चात् सभी प्रसन्न थे।
वध की हुई लड़की
अपनी माँ से कहती है कि वह उसे खोजे क्योंकि वह सदा के लिए जा चुकी थी। वह कभी
बड़ी होकर सुन्दर लड़की न बनेगी जिसकी कोई प्रशंसा करता। वह अपनी माँ से कहती है
कि उसने ईश्वर की इच्छा के विरुद्ध कार्य किया है। ईश्वर चाहता था कि वह प्राकृतिक ढंग
से बड़ी होती।
VOICE OF THE UNWANTED GIRL OBJECTIVE QUESTION
1.
Voice of the
Unwanted Girl is written by________.
(a) Sujata Bhatt
(b) MK Gandhi
(c) Nehru
(d) William Shakespeare
2.
What is the primary
theme of the poem?
(a)joy
(b) acceptance
(c)rejection
(d) cerebration
3.
Who gave
injection to the unborn girl?
(a)
mother
(b) Student
(c) Father
(d) Doctor
4.
The poem demands
for a world in which___________.
a) gender discrimination does not exist
b) nature is protected
C) poor are protected
d) none of these
5.
Where does the
girl say no one wanted to touch her, except later?
a)
at home
b) at the hospital
c) in the autopsy room
d) in the nursery
6.
Who compares the
sliced pomegranate?
(a) Unborn girl
(b) unborn boy
(c) doctor
(d) nurse
7.
What sound does the girl mention hearing before she
died?
a) music playing
b) birds chirping
c) traffic rushing
d) silence
8.
Who said, “Look for the unspeakable”?
(a) mother
(b) unborn girl
(c) unborn boy
(d) doctor
9.
Who is smelling like formaldehyde?
(a) unborn girl
(b) doctor
(c) mother
(d) father
10.
What does the girl ask her mother to do at the end
of the poem?
a) forget her
b) look for her
c) celebrate her
d) sing for her
11. Parijatak
means________-
(a) stem
(b) room
(c) hospital
(d) flower
12. Who is the
speaker in the poem
(a) Sujata Bhatt
(b) Mother
(c) doctor
(d) unborn girl
13.
Sujata Bhatt was born in_________.
(a) 1976
(b) 1956
(c) 2000
(d) 1975
14.
The girl mentions she will not turn into which of
the following
a) a tree
b) a bird
c) a butterfly
d) a star
15.
Pathos means_____.
(a) sadness
(b) happiness
(c) life
(d) great
16.
This poem is based on___________.
(a) Gender discrimination
(b) Child marriage
(c) Dowry System
(d) None
17.
I looked like a sliced___________.
a) apple
b) banana
c) pomegranate
d) none of these
18.
Which fruit is the girl’s appearance compared to in
the poem?
a) apple
b) banana
c) pomegranate
d) none of these
19. What item of
clothing does the mother put on afterwards?
a) Blue jeans
b) yellow dress
c) red shawl
d) grass-green sari
20.
‘Voice of the Unwanted Girl’ has been taken from her
anthology of poems__.
a) King Lear
b) The Gitanjali
c) Voice in the City
d) ‘My Mother’s Way of
Wearing a Sari’.
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