![]() ![]() She even wants to stay with mom, she can’t because she needs to compete in this modern world to sustain and keep her standards up-to-date. On the other hand daughter’s view is that in the name of career, job, opportunity, modernity, fashion, she has to sacrifice her old attitude, old values, and tradition. She (her daughter) has completely ruined and has eaten seeds of pomegranate means to say belongs to dead one and has drunk water from Styx that implies she has forgotten her mom and earlier life. The pain of mother is losing her child in the chaotic world even if she wants to bring back her to home (earlier state) but she can’t do so as it has become too late. The daughter has forgotten her relation, life in the village, tradition and rural values. The daughter’s drinking of wine resembles the dead drinking water from Styx. According to the myth, if the dead drinks water from Styx while crossing the boundary between the world of living being and the world of dead, it forgets everything about its previous life. Perhaps, because of this the mother realizes that she has lost the daughter forever at the end of the poem.Īnother mythical allusion in the poem is of the river of forgetfulness Styx. Therefore, this modern Persephone will forever be in the underworld with the Hades. Similarly, in the poem the different varieties of dishes, that the daughter orders can be compared to seeds of pomegranate. Eating the seeds of pomegranate, Persephone becomes half living and half dead. According to ancient Greek myth, it was eating of few seeds of pomegranate that was a reason behind Persephone failure to restore herself completely in the world of living beings. The way she is centered on drinking and eating gives the reader a clue that modern Persephone is not going to be fully restored (saved). The daughter likes drinking and eating than the conversation with the mother. The central theme of the poetry is the act of eating and drinking at the restaurant. This reference becomes ironical because of the transitoriness of love of tourist and Parisian. The daughter tries to prove the significance of her life in the city taking the reference of the love of tourist and Parisians. The daughter works as a model for an artist who runs a studio that features the futuristic paintings. Felling emotional faculty of humanity has been replaced by the formality. Daughter becomes more formal than affectional. Daughter was dressed in gray skirt which is symbolic of the death of human emotion and sensibility. The readers can observe artificiality in the daughter’s manner of clothing and an accent (language). In her (mother) description of her daughter and in the conversation between mother and daughter we can sense the trouble in the relationship which often results in communication gap. The poem begins with a narration of the mother who is waiting for her daughter. ![]()
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