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The poem is notable for its directness in approaching the taboo topic of the sexual trade involving a father and his daughter. In the second line, the fisherman asks casually "will you have her?". However, the exact intention of the father is couched in subtle and ambivalent imagery:- "trailing his
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In the poet's own words, the poem is based on a direct real-life experience. But it is not clear whether the poet as the protagonist was the visitor to the fisherman's daughter. The poem is an expression of the poet's loneliness as a youth, as
Mahapatra had a disturbed childhood.
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nets and nerves" and "his white bone thrashing his eyes". A wide range of poetic devices are employed to bring out the mind's trappings in the flesh.
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