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These are the times we live in- Imtiaz Dharker ( part of the collection…
These are the times we live in- Imtiaz Dharker ( part of the collection the terrorist at my table)
Dharker's own personal perspective
Free verse- Does not follow any rhyme or meter
She wants freedom from the judgement that is passed onto her
Power politics and disparity
Through her poem Dharker is trying to sensitise the general populace or the people who discriminate based on your identity towards your plight
'Times we live in'
Racism-Title
Discrimination
Normalization
Internalization
Xenophobia- Muslim
Diaspora
The dispersion or spread of a people from their original homeland
Scrutiny
Ethinicity
Islamphobia
Self-Censorship
When you censor your own identity and in an attempt to fit in a larger narrative
Metaphorical sense of dismemberment (dissected)
Mention of her body parts
Systemic injustice
Literary and stylistic devices
Structure
small sentence and long sentence
no pause to the scrutiny
Language
Diction
Imagery
Tone
A coping mechaism
dehumanization
Uses simple present
Lends it an assertive tone
Passitivity
Dharker uses Caesura
Use of full stops and dashes
The length of the stanzas increse as the poem goes on
Text invokes pathos
Fricative alliteration
Repetition of f sounds