Owl Bird

INTRODUCTION Sadeq Hedayat's 'The Blind Owl' is one of the most important literary works in Persian language. The original Persian text of The Blind Owl, marked "not for sale in Iran," appeared as a mimeographed publication in India in 1937. It was assumed at the time that Hedayat feared the repressive rule of Reza Shah; he feared especially that with the publication of this work he might have violated the established norms. He was aware that the propagation of a…...

Gwen Harwood’s, ‘Father and child’, is a two-part poem that tempers a child’s naivety to her matured, grown up attitude. Barn Owl presents a threshold in which the responder is able to witness the initiation of Gwen’s transition. The transformation is achieved through her didactical quest for wisdom, lead by her childhood naivety and is complimented through ‘nightfall’, where we see her fully maturate state. The importance of familial relationship and parental guidance is explored in father and child, as…...

The faint, almost invisible, line in between child and adult, carefree and accountable, ends up being a growing number of blurry and grey the better you get to it. First, it is said that you reach the adult years and step into the real world, when you confirm your faith in God, however thrusting that threshold yourself, you just understand you are not yet a grownup. So then, you postpone it up until the age of 18. By then you…...