FIRST YEAR (POETRY BOOK III)

NOTES ON STANZA WRITING
(By: Prof. Saleem Parvez , Faisalabad)

9- THE FEED
REFERNCE: These line have been taken from the poem, ‘’ The Feed’’ by Ahmed Nadeem Qasmi.
CONTEXT: The poet describes the love of mother sparrow for her young ones. Her young ones are ten in number. They are a few days old. The mother sparrow has one grain of millet to feed them. She does not know how to feed one grain to her ten young ones.
EXPLANATION: In these lines the poet tells us that,
The poet gives us many lessons. He advises us not to weep and cry rather we should work hard in life to be independent. He has symbolically told us that small children are helpless and totally dependent upon their parents. He advises the world power to produce grains instead of atom bombs.