Any Poem Of Ruskin Bond

[Geneva Andreotti]

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Basically, Ruskin was very small when his mother abandoned he and his fatherfor another man. Not only was this a shocking social choice, but it left a hugemark in the life of both Bond and his father. As a result of the mother'sabandonment, father and son learned to grief together, becoming extremelyclose. Ruskin held his father in high esteem, since his father was both motherand father to him.

However, the saddest thing happens: Ruskin's father dies. As he is sent toboarding school, he begins to experience long bouts of depression andloneliness that only got worse with time. Summers away from boarding schoolmeant that his time would have be spent with his mother and her newhusband.

He was never welcome at the mother's home. Nobody was there at the stationbecause the mother assumed that the train would be late as always. And, to topit all, he basically was told that he would ruin everyone's daily routine.

Hence, the poem moves on to focus on the friends that the poet lost as aresult of his dysfunctional home. First it was the boy with the "blackberryeyes" with whom the poet enjoyed respite only to be scolded for staying overhis house, breaking the friendship for good.

Then, the poet befriended the soul of a tree, wandered through cemeteries,and continued reminiscing in the sadness of his childhood. The poet evenbefriended lepers from a community which, of course, causes dismay in hisparents...and that friendship also ended.

At all times we sense a deep feeling of grief and mourning; ofincompleteness that permeates the poet. He grew up a lonely boy, in a sadhousehold, and losing friend after friend. The biggest friend lost wasobviously his father. Then Manohar. But he always searched for that one boy hesaw once in the train station waving cheerfully at him, although he didnot know him. It is simply the poet telling us how he, also, searched for thehappy boy within him.

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