‘The Snakes have Hollows’: Crafting Life
Reading Time: 3 minutes The poem sketches the household chores of Poonjeli, who is probably from a low socio-economic background. The setting, as stated above, is her kitchen, which may be her workplace assigned to her by the patriarchy. Within this space, she passively sets a mousetrap while humming an old theatre song that becomes both background and symbol….
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