Review of Turkish poet Nazim Hikmet’s poem ‘Don Quixote’
Review of Turkish poet Nazim Hikmet’s poem ‘Don Quixote’
I request
readers to read the poem from the link below and then only my review. Thanks.
https://engpoetry.com/nazim-hikmet/don-quixote/
There are
rare occasions when a person tries to reason with another; or tries to bring
that him to senses. Often such an attempt exposes the second person’s ego and
indifference to see another person’s point of view. There is a good number of
occasions one takes up the role of brokering peace and finding a solution, in
spite of previous bitter experiences. The initiative of a generous person is
appreciable and genuine but if he takes on insensitive people he will end up
like Don Quixote facing the windmills.
The poet
empathizes with the good intentions of Don Quixote, who was carried away by his
imaginations and lacked common sense. The world actually is lot different from
what one perceives it to be. There are dead ends and unreasonable practices in
place in every walk of life. The lack of willingness to enforce social reforms,
and the lack of vision about a whole new better world are common. Before getting
emotional and heroic one has to understand that the sufferers and the
perpetrators both have to awake and find solutions. The other side of a
silently suffering person is his complacence to the injustices to him and many
others. Change for better starts from within. Any third person initiative will
be quixotic for all.
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