Analysis of The Notice Of White Shroud



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A Notice Of White Shroud:  By Aranyak Shams

Suddenly I woke up feeling like an old man in his eighties.
I see the sky above my head,
Like a colorless 'pale-gray-face' hanging in the air,
The sky seemed to be a
'white shroud' covering the corpse of the sky and remnants of the cloud,
The sun is shrinking like a 'white dwarf'.

The pillow is torn off but the head is hanging on an inch above the ground,
Not wanting to depart like a faithful shadow,
Even though the faithful cell phone is smashed,
It is still clinging to the body,
As if the ashes remains after the cremation,
As if everything is dead but wants to resurrect.

Suddenly, I saw a dog barking,
And got out of the dustbin next to the cemetery and started licking his own dirts,
Unexpectedly, he made the tail curled up,
And by encircling the whole faithfulness,
He embraced the death,
Faithfulness dies with dirth.

Looking to the right,
I see now a vulture peeking out of a hole of a burnt 'Jarul Tree'.
Mother is dead next to him.

As soon as I remembered my cell phone,
I picked it up.
I saw a 'Notice' blinking on the screen....

"Humankinds are being informed that you have destroyed the heavenly earth. Now the world is under re-construction.
It will take hundred years to reboot."

Awakening up from 'the tormented dream' ,
I found a 'dismantled myself, a dog and a bird, And I saw :

'Two are deceased,
One is at dead end,
And the stomach is rumbling'.

I have been engulfed with horrifying darkness,
Now, I have to go out to find food,
No time left ....
I must catch up ...
the 'West-bound-train'!

© Aranyak Shams

(February 09, 2021-Suburbs, Sylhet)


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Poetic Form
Metre 1010 010111111 1001111011110110 11010111 1010011110001 011110 1110001101010101 011101011 0101111011101110101 11010110101 1010101111 111101010 1101001100010 11101111101 100110110 011101011010001010111 0100110111 010100011 10101 1111 10101 11101010110110111 1011111 1111010111 1111 1101010101 11100111101010011011101010 11110111 0100110101 110010101001011 1101 11111 00101100 11101110010 111111111 111 1111 0111 11 100101
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 1,660
Words 348
Sentences 16
Stanzas 13
Stanza Lengths 1, 1, 6, 6, 6, 3, 3, 2, 2, 3, 5, 1, 1
Lines Amount 40
Letters per line (avg) 31
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 96
Words per stanza (avg) 23

About this poem

This is surrealistic piece of poetry that reflects also contemporary issues around the world and how we are destroying our mother earth. It also focuses on the impact of what we do against the nature and what may happen in future as its consequences.

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Written on February 09, 2021

Submitted by rtn_m on July 10, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Aranyak Shams (Mohammed Shams Uddin)

 · Sylhet

The poet is an author, columnist, ELT Researcher and the Vice President of ETAB (Bangladesh English Teachers Association). He is also an Editor of an international journal named 'GATE SELTA, and literary little magazine named 'Aranyan'. He has two published poetry books and six academic books for kids and young learners. more…

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