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    The poem describes a "Peasant Orator" who tries to rouse a listless city to action with his words, crying out "Arise, arise, arise!". However, his words are drowned out by the sounds of traffic and technology that have distracted and numbed the masses. Though the people drift uneasily and seem unaffected by his speech, they still cheer for the "mute peasant", suggesting they feel something but have lost the ability to truly hear his message.

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    The Peasant Orator

    By: Tejas Ranade

    2008

    “Arise, arise, arise!” he claims to the city of listless bones


    That stands him up on their granite podium, mirth
    Etched into the desolate wastes around their piteous homes –
    Crying tears of air, they eat his words in satiation like dark earth.

    Voices blacked out by the cowering bursts of cars


    Traveling towards the obviated byline, skyline of scrapers –
    Those lords of steel, that which drives men to naught
    But racing ivy hearts and the warm embrace of the glass.

    They blind themselves with soft promises of their elusive pets,


    Hungry creatures feeding on their masters’ mores.
    The shabby man who thus preaches to the mass assembled loftily
    Is drowned out by the howling of those agitating dogs.

    The sunrise too close for mortal comfort, they uneasily stir,
    Eyes drifting listlessly from the speakers’ words to his face.
    And the masses, those piteous, helpless, masses, lay over
    Their desolate caverns of smoke, cheering the mute peasant.

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