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Trava [24]
2 years ago
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What does the speaker mean by ""And ignorance is / A lost paradise"" in lines 20–21?

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kondor19780726 [428]2 years ago
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Answer:

The line '...and ignorance is/ a lost paradise' means that as she has gained knowledge by reading, she is no more ignorant to knowledge and to her ignorance is a like a lost paradise.

Explanation:

"Blind" is a poem written by Fatima Naoot. The poem speaks about the blindness of the speaker and the surgery which she underwent. The speaker is saying that when she was blind she used to listen to people reading her books.

The speaker in the poem is also trying to speak not only about her physical blindness but blindness in terms of ignorance of knowledge or the things she learned by listening to the books.

<u>The speaker says that she was illiterate in terms of many things and ignorant in terms of spirituality as well. By using the reference of 'Lama' in  her poetry, the speaker is hinting about her spiritual blindness and ignorance of spiritual things. </u>

<u>So, the speaker is refering to this spiritual ignorance a paradise that is lost. That now she is no more ignorant and has gained knowledge. </u>

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