Class 12 English Poem Soft Storm

The poem Class 12 English Poem Soft Storm composed by Abhi Subedi expresses the profound touch of compassion and the deep inner psychological disturbance of the poet. The title itself glorifies the complex emotions of the poet as they were highly disturbed but yet not outwardly disastrous.

In the poem, the speaker uses the word ‘soft’ with words like ‘storm’ and ‘gale’ to express his inner emotional disturbance. Generally, anomalous expressions refer to syntactically well-formed but semantically paradoxical pairings. In the poem, the expressions ‘soft storm’ and ‘softness rose like a gale’ are highly unusual and paradoxical oxymorons. They are used to accurately define the intense psychological effect and emotional turbulence within the speaker. By connecting such contrasting ideas, the poet successfully achieves the ability to express his inner chaotic state through psychological, rather than physical, imagery.

The speaker expresses his negative thoughts toward the current era by explicitly using the term ‘mad time’. He considers the time to be utterly mad as he experiences different unusual natural phenomena and witnesses unlawful, chaotic human activities. The things happening around him are highly unusual, violent, and mannerless.

He sees society in a state of complete disorder and moral decay. Also, he observes that modern society is spinning wildly out of control, which gives him severe inner disturbance. Consequently, his attitude toward the time he lives in is highly critical, pessimistic, and disturbed.

The poem ‘Soft Storm’ vividly describes the inner emotional turmoil of the speaker when he observes modern society. With a deep touch of compassion, the speaker reveals his tumultuous nature and describes exactly what he feels. The poet finds our society in a state of complete moral disorder. Society and people are suffering heavily from corruption, and people stricken with hunger are seen everywhere in the neglected streets. He painfully witnesses modern people actively ignoring their glorious history and cultural roots.

On the other hand, most things are unusual and unlawful. People are forgetting about basic humanity and are behaving incredibly inhumanely with each other. They have forgotten mutual respect and basic sympathy. In the poem, the poet seems to deeply challenge these tragic circumstances through his emotional observations. Because he mentally and emotionally rejects the current societal norms, we can call him a rebel, even though his rebellious nature is expressed internally and softly rather than through direct physical action.

The above lines are extracted from the fourth stanza of the poem ‘Soft Storm’ composed by Abhi Subedi. As the title glorifies, the poem describes his intense inner emotions using anomalous and evocative expressions. He seems to be rebellious, albeit indirectly, toward the violent and unlawful activities of modern society.

Through the above lines, the poet expresses his suffering and uneasy feelings when he observes a person in a miserable, tragic condition during the night. When he sees a person wearing a violently blood-stained shirt, he experiences a deep, emotional ‘soft storm’ inside himself. In the poem, the injured person is lying unconsciously on the ground in the moonlit night. Here, profound human dreams and past achievements are symbolically presented by the ‘moon of history’. When the moon appears in the sky, the moonlight falls on a place of cultural and historical importance (open museums). Through this natural interplay during the night, the poet highlights the tragic irony that while history and dreams play hide and seek, modern people remain totally indifferent to the injured person who is clearly the victim of societal violence.