The Country Without a Post Office Questions and Answers
The Country Without a Post Office
How has Kashmir shrunk into the poet's mailbox?
The speaker of the poem has received a postcard which someone has sent from his homeland of Kashmir. The first line refers to Kashmir's shrinking into the poet's mailbox. What the speaker means by...
The Country Without a Post Office
Describe the poet's use of postcards as the central image of the poem “The Country Without a Post Office.”
If you wanted to argue that the postcard is the central image of Agha Shahid Ali’s poem, you could go to part two, where the speaker quotes a card “lying on the street.” The card starts off “We’re...
The Country Without a Post Office
Why does the speaker say that the houses are empty in "The Country Without a Post Office"?
Some brief background helps make this poem understandable. It was written in remembrance of a time in 1990 when a rebellion broke out in Kashmir, leading to the mail not being delivered there for...
The Country Without a Post Office
What are the aftermaths of colonialism portrayed in Agha Shahid Ali's poem, "The Country Without a Post Office"? Use...
The poem “The Country Without a Post Office” by Agha Shahid Ali deals with the events of the Kashmir rebellion against Indian rule. This was a time when both India and Pakistan laid claim on the...