Key learning points

1. Mundair uses powerful verbs to describe the experience of isolation felt by the speaker.
2. Mundair may use the metaphor “woven tapestries” to refer to how our identities are created by ‘threads’ of life.
3. Mundair uses a variation of the ghazal form to, arguably, connect to Indian heritage and thematic links.
4. Mundair may have varied the ghazal form to comment on ideas of identity, heritage and belonging.

Keywords

• Woven - made or constructed by interlacing threads or strips of material or other elements into a whole

• Metaphorically - describing something by means of an image or symbol

• Ghazal - originally an Arabic verse form dealing with loss and romantic love consisting of rhymed couplets

• Discordant - (of sounds) harsh and jarring because of a lack of harmony

Common misconception