One Who Goes Away An analysis of Sujata Bhatts poem
In Sujata Bhatt’s “The One Who Goes Away”, the speaker dwells upon the idea that everyone contains two people, the one who stays and the one how goes. ... The structure of this poem reflects the sense that the reader is listening to the writer talking to herself. ... The tone of the poem changes from start to finish, clearly reflecting the writers understanding of her spiritual self. The tone is initially narrative, however this is broken by ‘but’, in line, 15 where the tone changes to an introspective one.