An Old Woman.

The poem is highly symbolic and really common placed in its subject matter. The poet was impressed by the temple of Kandoba at Jajori and the poem is therefrom against this setting. An Old Wo firearm is a graphic picture of a beggar woman. Having lost the promises of her past, she is reduced to her arrange state. As the speaker views her squ atomic number 18ly, he, in a sort of revelation, becomes aware of the decay which has set in her somebody and which is extended to the decaying tradition symbolized by the hills and the temples. Without using many words, the out of date woman forces the narrator to look at her from closed quarters.It is then that he realizes the hypocrisy of society and the decadence of the social system that has ruined the old woman to a beggar. he finds that the social fabric is destroyed, architectural features go into ruins. Human values are forgotten. The old womans condition reduces the narrator to a small status when he feels as insignificant as that s mall coin in her hand. This poem humbles us to remember our responsibility to society. It reveals the callousness, a failure on our part to take care of the elderly, protect our heritage and preserve our values.In the rush of materialism and the desire to achieve, matchless takes all that one can from society, but giving the same back is largely forgotten. So the pushover hills, crumbling temples, crumbling of social order is directly a result of our negligence, our failure to act responsibly. Somewhere, the materialistic world has do man selfish, trapping him in a race to accumulate. When society has to face this onslaught, cracks appear, but selfish man forgets to repair the cracks, forgets to salvage lost values, thereby creating a dilapidated social fabric.