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Corona Says by Vishnu S. Rai
ABOUT THE POEM
Corona Says by Vishnu Singh Rai
What is the poem "Corona Says" by Vishnu Singh Rai about?
This poem "Corona Says" has been composed by the Nepali poet Visnu Singh Rai. There are altogether six different stanzas here in this poem.
The main speaker here in this poem is Corona. Here, this pandemic Corona has been personified as masculine gender. As a speaker, he is speaking to humans. He is continuously claiming, blaming, warning and even making humans realise their misdeeds against this beautiful planet, its nature and other creatures.
The main theme of this poem is the present-day world crisis of Corona and its devastating impacts on human life. This poem has presented a subtle satire on man's conduct and attitude. COVID-19 is considered a byproduct of man's treatment of nature.
SUMMARY & ANALYSIS
Corona Says by Vishnu Singh Rai
Write a summary and analysis of the poem "Corona Says" by Vishnu Singh Rai.
Stop crying,
Oh man,
Stop cursing me
And listen.
I didn’t come here
of my own free will.
I was invited.
Believe me,
I had no choice
but to visit you.
How many lives were lost
Because of me?
You count.
But have you ever counted
How many have died so far
Because of you and your wars?
In the very beginning, we find the speaker speaking to a man. The speaker asks the man to stop crying and cursing him. He denies coming to this planet of his own free will and even taking thousands of lives and destroying the world's economy. He claims that he was invited without having a choice because of humans' bad conduct and attitudes towards nature. Here, the speaker calculates dead people and even blames humans for their destructive wars and their bad impacts.
You call yourself
‘the crown of creation’.
What about the others,
Those who fly in the sky,
Those who live in the ocean,
Those who crawl on the earth,
And those, the sources of your oxygen?
You think they all are your slaves
Who you can sell or kill
At your will.
Don’t blame me.
I just wanted to show you
How clean the blue sky looks
Without dust and smoke.
I wanted you to realise
How caged animals feel
In a zoo.
In the third stanza, the speaker asks the human not to blame him. On his arrival, he intends to show the humans the beauty of a clean and blue sky without any dust or smoke. He makes all the humans realise the clean blue sky without dust and smoke after his arrival. He has shown the mirror of reality to all humans by talking about the feelings of caged animals in a zoo. This is similar to the trapped lives of humans during the period of lockdown.
I came
Not to give you a test.
I came
So that mother Earth
Could have a little rest.
In the next stanza, the speaker further adds that he hadn't come to provide them with a test on this planet. According to him, due to all these bad activities of humans, the mother earth itself is feeling the burden. He claims that he had come to provide little rest to the mother (earth).
You claim that you know everything.
I just wanted you to know yourself
The earth is not your property alone -
It’s as much ours as yours.
Next, the speaker blames humans for their boastful nature and their claim of knowing everything. He wants to make humans realise that the mother (earth) isn't the property of humans alone. According to him, Mother Earth belongs to everyone, not just humans.
Sure,
I will depart one day.
But remember
There’re many others like me.
They’ll come too.
If you don’t get rid of your inflated ego,
You’ll be back to your cave time
That you endured
Long, l o n g, l o n g ago …
SUMMARY OF THE POEM
Corona Says by Vishnu S. Rai
This poem has presented the world crisis of Corona and its devastating impacts on human beings.
This poem has been composed by a Nepali poet, Visnu S. Rai, a retired professor and well-known creative writer and poet.
It has presented the major theme of the world crisis, Corona, and its devastating impact on human life. This poem is a subtle satire on man's conduct and attitude. This pandemic, COVID-19, is considered the byproduct of man's treatment of nature.
The main speaker of the poem is Corona. This pandemic Corona has been personified as masculine gender here.
In the poem, we find the main speaker, Corona, directly speaking to humans and making them realise the facts behind the present devastation.
He is continuously claiming, blaming, warning, and even making humans realise their misdeeds on this beautiful planet, its nature, and other creatures.
This poem has six different stanzas. In the very first stanza, we find the speaker speaking to a man. The speaker asks the man not to curse him. He denies man's claim of coming to this planet of his own free will and even taking thousands of lives and destroying the world's economy.
He claims that he was invited to this planet against his will. According to him, he arrived on this planet due to human beings' bad conduct and attitudes towards nature. Here, he calculates the number of dead people and even blames humans for their destructive wars and their bad impacts on this planet.
Later on, the speaker blames humans for their useless arrogance. He states that humans on this earth think of themselves as 'the crown of creation' (king or superior of this nature). Due to this arrogance of superiority, humans are treating other creatures as their slaves. The speaker puts forward his opinion, saying that all the creatures on this planet have similar values to humans. For him, the earth isn't individual property. It is equally true for all living beings. All the living beings on this planet, such as the birds in the sky, creatures in the sea, creeping insects on land, sources of life, etc., have similar value.
He feels that the mother (earth) itself is feeling the burden due to all these bad activities of humans.
He makes all humans realise the clean environment on this planet after his arrival. He mentions the clean blue sky without dust or smoke. He tries his best to show the mirror of reality to all the humans, explaining the feelings of caged animals in a zoo. This particular trapped life of humans during the period of lockdown is similar to the caged lives of animals in the zoo. He states that he had come to provide little rest to the mother (earth).
He further adds that the mother earth belongs to every single living being, not just humans. Eventually, he warns the humans to get rid of their meaningless egos; otherwise, many others, like speakers, will come here on this planet, and humans will have to return to the cave as before.
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