saffron picker analyis
Saffron picker analysis
‘The Saffron Picker’ in Judith Beverages poetry anthology Wolf Notes explores the idea of injustice and inequality in a third world country from a first world point of view. This idea is conveyed through the examination of a poor saffron picking family. Feelings of sympathy towards this family only supported by a mother is conveyed through the use of imagery, metaphors and meaningful language.
‘To produce I kilogram of saffron it is necessary to pick 150,000 crocuses’. This small yet crucial line at the very beginning of the poem suggests, that right from the start, this poem is trying to convey hardship and struggle in a life unlike the one we know; it is shown by the enormous idea of hand picking 150,000 flowers. This idea of hardship and struggle is reiterated by the first stanza, much more blunt; “soon she’ll crouch again” this phrase gives us the feeling of a monotonous life, a life filled by picking crocuses for a meagre survival.
When children are introduced into this poem of insufficiency and toil a deepened sense of sadness is portrayed by the mother through the writer. “Soon, the sun will transpose its shadows onto the faces of her children”. The cycle of poverty will continue and her children will inherit her land her job and along with those two things comes the poverty and struggle and the inability do know if you will find sustenance for the next day. The rhythm within this second stanza, is used to give a more sombre feeling by using words such as shadows and children conveying the idea that her children will also suffer the shadow that her life is. A sense of the knowledge of the undeniable truth of the future, about what will happen to their family; the use of consistent colons and semi colons not allowing us to stop reading and build our emotions is one of the keys to this.
The end of the second and the beginning of the third stanza reiterates the unfair comparison between the amount of work and the amount of
‘The Saffron Picker’ in Judith Beverages poetry anthology Wolf Notes explores the idea of injustice and inequality in a third world country from a first world point of view. This idea is conveyed through the examination of a poor saffron picking family. Feelings of sympathy towards this family only supported by a mother is conveyed through the use of imagery, metaphors and meaningful language.
‘To produce I kilogram of saffron it is necessary to pick 150,000 crocuses’. This small yet crucial line at the very beginning of the poem suggests, that right from the start, this poem is trying to convey hardship and struggle in a life unlike the one we know; it is shown by the enormous idea of hand picking 150,000 flowers. This idea of hardship and struggle is reiterated by the first stanza, much more blunt; “soon she’ll crouch again” this phrase gives us the feeling of a monotonous life, a life filled by picking crocuses for a meagre survival.
When children are introduced into this poem of insufficiency and toil a deepened sense of sadness is portrayed by the mother through the writer. “Soon, the sun will transpose its shadows onto the faces of her children”. The cycle of poverty will continue and her children will inherit her land her job and along with those two things comes the poverty and struggle and the inability do know if you will find sustenance for the next day. The rhythm within this second stanza, is used to give a more sombre feeling by using words such as shadows and children conveying the idea that her children will also suffer the shadow that her life is. A sense of the knowledge of the undeniable truth of the future, about what will happen to their family; the use of consistent colons and semi colons not allowing us to stop reading and build our emotions is one of the keys to this.
The end of the second and the beginning of the third stanza reiterates the unfair comparison between the amount of work and the amount of