"Salt" by Anamika

"Salt" by Anamika

The writer of this poem is Anamika she is born on August 17,1961,she is a contemporary Indian poet,social worker,and novelist writing in Hindi,and a critic writing in English.

  

  The poem presents human behaviors and responsibilities in the planet.The poem also represents human weakness.The poem “salt” by Anamika portrays a varied essence of salt for women,men,and earth. We humans have responsibilities and behaviors in the world.We are like salt that have two sides,sometimes we are positive and sometimes we are also negative in life.

  

  The author in the poem mean that salt has two sides.It has positive and a negative side to it.There will always be salt on Earth.It balances the earth.  

      It is all about human behaviors and responsibilities.This poem is meaningful,it describes everyone.The “salt” is about the Earth’s sorrow and it’s taste.

 

Her work addresses a number of themes that resonate with readers: self-care, immigration, love, and war. Salt is both tender and bold. The tenderness comes across through her use of delicate imagery like “flowers”, “the moon”.