W.H. Auden’s poem – Partition
My friend IK has reminded me of W.H. Auden’s poem “Partition,†published in 1966. These moving verses highlight the absurdity of the way the border was created sixty two years ago:Â
Unbiased at least he was when he arrived on his mission,
Having never set eyes on the land he was called to partition
Between two peoples fanatically at odds,
With their different diets and incompatible gods.
“Time,†they had briefed him in London, “is short. It’s too late
For mutual reconciliation or rational debate:
The only solution now lies in separation.
The Viceroy thinks, as you will see from his letter,
That the less you are seen in his company the better,
So we’ve arranged to provide you with other accommodation.
We can give you four judges, two Moslem and two Hindu,
To consult with, but the final decision must rest with you.â€
Shut up in a lonely mansion, with police night and day
Patrolling the gardens to keep the assassins away,
He got down to work, to the task of settling the fate
Of millions. The maps at his disposal were out of date
And the Census Returns almost certainly incorrect,
But there was no time to check them, no time to inspect
Contested areas. The weather was frightfully hot,
And a bout of dysentery kept him constantly on the trot,
But in seven weeks it was done, the frontiers decided,
A continent for better or worse divided.
The next day he sailed for England, where he could quickly forget
The case, as a good lawyer must. Return he would not,
Afraid, as he told his Club, that he might get shot.
“I had no alternative; the time at my disposal was so short that I could not do a better job. Given the same period I would do the same thing. However, if I had two to three years, I might have improved on what I did.â€
— Sir Cyril Radcliffe
More at: http://www.tribuneindia.com/2006/20060924/spectrum/main1.htm
very nice poem
TYRONE JUST WRITING YOU FOR THE LOVE OF YOUR TOWN OF INDIA
ALSO THE PEOLPE I WOULD LIKE TO KNO FOR THE TIME BEING ABOUT
THE MAIN SOURE OF YOUR TOWN. ON THE TRADES YOUR COMPANY DO FOR NOW ON BUSINESS ALSO FOR THE PEOPLE.
it is gr8 &lovely poem 2 recite as well as 2 hear
Thank you, I will re-post at my facebook page in reference to the currently attempted by Russia partition/ invasion of Ukraine. The slight difference is, in Ukraine now people with different “diets and gods” went on the streets, fight and demonstrate side by side, tell in unison “Putin go home”, yet the aggressor pretends he does not see it and still moves in (not out, btw, as England did). There is another great Auden poem about Russia invading Prague that applies to today’s invasion of Ukraine and hostilities towards Ukrainian language.
Auden Prague
The Ogre does what ogres can,
Deeds quite impossible for Man,
But one prize is beyond his reach,
The Ogre cannot master Speech:
About a subjugated plain,
Among its desperate and slain,
The Ogre stalks with hands on hips,
While drivel gushes from his lips.
The Ogre does what ogres can,
Deeds quite impossible for Man,
But one prize is beyond his reach,
The Ogre cannot master Speech:
About a subjugated plain,
Among its desperate and slain,
The Ogre stalks with hands on hips,
While drivel gushes from his lips.
The Ogre does what ogres can,
Deeds quite impossible for Man,
But one prize is beyond his reach,
The Ogre cannot master Speech:
About a subjugated plain,
Among its desperate and slain,
The Ogre stalks with hands on hips,
While drivel gushes from his lips.
by Auden
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