 Welcome to today's program. I am Dr. Pallavi Kugoy of Krishna Kanta Handic State Open University. Today I shall take up Unit 8 Chinvachi B and the poem prescribed for you is A Mother in a Refugee Camp. In this video I shall be taking up the explanation of this particular poem. The course is Journal English Semester 1 Block 1. So let us quickly begin. First I shall start with table of contents, starting with the learning objectives, explanation of the poem A Mother in a Refugee Camp, questions to check your progress and the references. Learning objectives after going through this particular video the learner will be able to explain the summary of the poem A Mother in a Refugee Camp and describe their poets thoughts and reflections. Let us quickly come to explanation of the poem. I hope in your spare time you will also go through this particular poem and the text of the poem that is so that you will have a better idea of the explanation that I shall be providing to you in this particular video. The poem begins with the representation of a mother's love and sacrifice through the figure of Mother Mary and her son Jesus Christ. The opening line spelled the mood of the poem itself, capturing the pain and suffering of a mother. Here a mother with a son in tow is but a ghost of her once happy self when she held her child with hope in her eyes. Now fate seemed to have shattered that self image and a vibrant sense of optimism with the rage of war. She like many other women was a victim of the war and a story is captured in the poem A Mother in a Refugee Camp which is prescribed for you. The description of the refugee camp itself speaks of the sufferings met by the children and the women alike. There is a gloomy atmosphere in the camp with the heavy orders of diarrhea of children suffering from malnutrition and of unwashed bodies. You can well imagine the condition of babies and little children with undernourished bodies, protruded bellies, prominently visible ribs, feeble steps and cries of hunger. The condition at the refugee camp was so horrific that mothers ceased to care and surrendered to their fate except this one woman who held on despite the sense of diminished hope. This woman was only a fragment of hope she must have been once trying hard to smile through her loss and suffering. She seemed to cling on the vestiges of her memories, the memories of a mother's pride that she had once cherished. She remembered all the little things that were special to her as a mother but everything was lost in an instant. All that remained was a bundle of possessions from which she took out a broken comb to comb her son's rust-colored hair. Perhaps this takes her back to both their happier days when she did the same things with her mother's joy. She may have never realized how special these little moments were until they were all lost. With the hanging uncertainty of their future, the unfortunate mother does all that there is to do with the dying hope of her little son's survival. With this we come to the end of this particular video. Now we shall come to your questions to check your progress. I hope you'd also go through the explanation once again so that you're better able to answer the same. Question number one, give a detailed explanation of the poem A Mother in a Refugee Camp by Chinima Achive in your own words. Question number two, give a brief description of the refugee camp in Bifra. Question number three, what did the mother remember in the time of her suffering? I hope you'd also go through the BA English Graduate Self-Learning Material SLM of German English course BA First Semester Block 1 Unit 8. Thank you dear lagers.