Text World Analysis of A. K. Ramanujan's "Of Mothers: among other things"

<p>This paper presents a Text World<br>Analysis of A.K. Ramanujan’s poem “Of<br>Mothers: among other things” while<br>viewing it as a discourse situation to<br>explore the mechanics of flashback<br>technique in the poem. This involves<br>analysis of the viewpoints and voices and<br>the text-worlds constructed by the voices.<br>The observation that the poem employs<br>flashback technique is a product of<br>impressionistic literary criticism. This<br>observation about the poem is further<br>substantiated using a cognitive poetic<br>analysis of Text World Theory with<br>special emphasis on the world<br>construction and world switches using<br>cognitive deixis. Therefore, it also draws<br>upon Peter Stockwell’s Deictic Shift<br>Theory (DST). </p>