Question

what could be the arguments for the poem Dacca guazes?

Answer 1

@nayibel can u help me with this poem?

Answer 2

I have to read it first

Answer 3

http://www.smith.edu/poetrycenter/poets/thedaccagauzes.html

Answer 4

The Looms of Bengal Silenced": History and Memory in Agha Shahid Ali's "The Dacca Gauzes"Daniel R. Philbin Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty MentorThe reference to the exquisite fabric, the refined Bengali muslin, in Agha Shahid Ali's poem, "The Dacca Gauzes," serves as a metaphor of loss of history and memory. Describing his grandmothers nostalgia for this beautiful muslin and its splendor in the lines no one now knows, my grandmother says, what it was like to wear that cloth, the speaker addresses the glory of this art. The juxtaposition of the grandmothers nostalgic memory, in the following imagery, the air/ was dew-starched: she pulled/ it absently through her ring, reflecting the ephemerality of the cloth, now lost to history, with the speakers historical knowledge of the intricate Dhaka muslins in the following lines, In history we learned: the hands/ of weavers were amputated,/ the looms of Bengal silenced, shows how the phrases and imagery in the poem reflect its themes of nostalgia and loss.Keywords: Dacca Gauzes, imagery, Agha Shahid Ali, nostalgia, loss, art, Bengal, memoryTopic(s):EnglishAsian StudiesArt HistoryPresentation Type: Oral PaperSession: 2-4Location: VH 1236Time: 8:45

Answer 5

I found it online at the students research conference

Answer 6

The Looms of Bengal Silenced": History and Memory in Agha Shahid Ali's "The Dacca Gauzes"Daniel R. Philbin Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty MentorThe reference to the exquisite fabric, the refined Bengali muslin, in Agha Shahid Ali's poem, "The Dacca Gauzes," serves as a metaphor of loss of history and memory. Describing his grandmothers nostalgia for this beautiful muslin and its splendor in the lines no one now knows, my grandmother says, what it was like to wear that cloth, the speaker addresses the glory of this art. The juxtaposition of the grandmothers nostalgic memory, in the following imagery, the air/ was dew-starched: she pulled/ it absently through her ring, reflecting the ephemerality of the cloth, now lost to history, with the speakers historical knowledge of the intricate Dhaka muslins in the following lines, In history we learned: the hands/ of weavers were amputated,/ the looms of Bengal silenced, shows how the phrases and imagery in the poem reflect its themes of nostalgia and loss.Keywords: Dacca Gauzes, imagery, Agha Shahid Ali, nostalgia, loss, art, Bengal, memoryTopic(s):EnglishAsian StudiesArt HistoryPresentation Type: Oral PaperSession: 2-4Location: VH 1236Time: 8:45

Answer 7

The Dacca Gauzes," serves as a metaphor of loss of history and memory.

Answer 8

this is the summary...What could be the opposing views?

Answer 9

Hmmm let me see .what's the assignment for this essay?

Answer 10

this is not the essay.We have to pick up a stanza, explain what the poet has stressed upon and then our opposing views.
Like we can say that the there might be some validity in the poet's opinion but that could have been this way because of some strong reasons.
now what can be those strong reasons that im not getting as i agree with the poet.
Help me with it plz.

Answer 11

Maybe im wrong but if I were you I would focus on the line where he says that grandmother that his grandmother eexpress her nostalgia and loss

Answer 12

You can ask yourself why she had nostalgia for the old custom or the old way in a stanza she says what it was like to wear that cloth the speaker addresses the glory of this art

Answer 13

Looking I'm Google but I didn't find the answer I will ask my friends to see if they know how to oppose it

Answer 14

ive googled it too and have found all the points you've just mentioned.But still the question remain what to oppose? As the poem has clearly stated the right things.Like when you grow old you get nostalgic about the things you've lost

Answer 15

okaaay

Answer 16

remains*

Answer 17

There you go you can just try to paraphrase the stanza and try to oppose on the way she said that times has pass and things has changed so you can may say why if she missed all that old custom why didn't she try to keep leaving in that the way . And even though many of the people she missed had die she can try to remember those thing instead of just talk about it.lol I don't know I'm not that good at opposing poem.

Answer 18

Thanks a bunch ive got the idea