partition - sujata bhatt

• 'she stood in her garden'


  starts with a calm image to represent how india was peaceful before
• 'the cries of the people'


  tranquility is interrupted to show how the partition affects her aswell, 'people' suggests anonymity
• 'she felt it was endless - their noise -'


  noise becomes a metaphor for the partition, endless implies the peaceful garden state won't return
• 'every day' 'each day' x 2


  repetition shows ongoing turmoil
• 'even the birds sounded different'


  everything natural is now unnatural and freedom is disrupted
• 'she is seventy years old'


  there's a time shift with no break implying she still feels like the nineteen year old girl
• 'but how i wish i had gone with my aunt'


  structure becomes fragmented as her bottled up emotions begin to come out
• 'how could they have let a man who knew nothing about geography divide a country?'


  the fragmented question shows her shock that she does not know the answer
• title

  the separation of india and pakistan