WIND BY SUBRAMANIA BHARTI

                   WIND 

The poet asks the wind to come softly and not to break the shutters of the windows, not to scatter the papers or throw down the books from the shelf. But the wind does not listen to him, and throws them down which were on the shelf, tears the pages of the books and brings rainfall also. Initially when the poet introduces the wind, then he compares its power to a small child; that's why he asks the wind to come softly. But later the wind becomes destructive like a angry young man.

The poet further says that the wind makes fun of the weak people. It's so powerful that it is making the weak houses, doors and the sloping beams, which were supporting the roof, fall. Its destructive forces are such that it is even uprooting the trees; that people are also not able to balance themselves and making them fall. It is also making their hearts beat faster by creating a threat to their existence.

Now the poet addresses the wind as god, and says that just as people winnows the wheat to separate the grain from the chaff, Similarly the wind god separates the strong people from the weak. Due to strong wind, all weak things get separated and destroyed.

Now the poet says that the wind will not listen to us and do what we tell him. So the poet suggests to us that we should build strong houses; fix the doors firmly, practise to make ourselves physically and mentally strong, and keep the feelings of our heart constant. Consequently, the wind will become our friend because it extinguishes out weak fires whereas it increases the intensity of the strong fire.

In the last two lines for the poem, the poet says that the friendship with the strong wind is good, and that we should praise him. Here the poet wants to convey a strong message that we should not be afraid of our problems and think them as an opportunity to make ourselves physically and mentally strong. This way we will learn how to deal with the problems of our life.