The use of allusion in the title and epigraph of nectar in a sieve to emphasize the novels
The use of allusion in the novel “Nectar na Sieve” helps to emphasize the theme of loss and hope. Explanation: The epigraph of the novel “Nectar in a Sieve” by Kamala Markandaya is taken from the poem “Work Without Hope” by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The poem was written in 1825. The poem is characterized as an unconventional sonnet. The poem ends with the thought of the last couplet: “Hopeless work draws nectar from a sieve, and hope without an object cannot live”. The narrator in this last verse sums up the poem by showing his despair. He explains that he is not working because he has no hope. This verse is used as an epigraph in the novel “Nectar in a Sieve” to show that the hopelessness of despair shown by the narrator in the poem is also the main idea of the novel.
the answer is the theme of loss and hope
historical significance
Answer 6
Nectar in a Sieve alludes to the slow draining of an individual’s life force here on earth. The nectar represents life and the sieve, being a sieve/filter, slowly drains the nectar until it falls to the ground and becomes useless.
Answer 7
Themes of loss and hope