Soaring Through the Open Sky
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Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni was born in 1956 in Calcutta, India. Using her background and her history with her culture, she created Woman with Kite to express her emotions on Indian culture. The poem concentrated on every descriptive action that the narrator went through. The meadow of crabgrass, faded dandelions and querulous child-voices (Divakaruni, 394) filled the readers mind with images and beautiful hills. The young mother flew her kite into the unlimited sky. While doing that, she stripped layers and layers of her responsibility away. On the surface the poem may sound as if a young mother flying her kite and enjoying the day with her son. But if one is to look deeper, one would never imagine that the kite flying in the sky becomes a metaphor for life and the limited amount of freedom as a young wife and mother.
While holding the kite, she feels the kite, translucent purple square, rise in a resistant arc, flapping against the wind (Divakaruni, 394). Her duty was always taking care of the child and the housework...