Presents from my Aunts in Pakistan by Moniza Alvi The Poem ~ Structure & Meaning
{"Image DocumentName": "Presents from my Aunts in Pakistan by Moniza Alvi The Poem ~ Structure & Meaning", "Image ImageDescription": "I wanted my parents camel-skin lamp - switching it on in my bedroom, to consider the cruelty. and the transformation from camel to shade, marvel at the colours. Decorated camel skin lamps are a traditional handicraft item given as a gift in Pakistan. Presumably her parents would have brought this with them when they left Pakistan so it must be valuable or have some sentimental value. In the same way as she is attracted to and simultaneously repelled by the clothes her aunts send her, she responds in a similar way to her parents camel skin lamp; she recognizes its beauty, but is appalled by the cruelty involved in its creation. The importance of these lines to the poem is they are a metaphor for her own experience and the \u2018cruelty\u2019 of her own transformation from an English schoolgirl to Pakistani maiden. Also there is a sense here that the skin belongs on the camel so making a lamp out of it is wrong; in the same way she belongs in hr English clothes not transformed by those he aunts send her. Her own experience.", "Image XResolution": "37", "Image YResolution": "37", "Image ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Centimeter", "Image Software": "SlidePlayer", "Image YCbCrPositioning": "Centered"}