The title of the poem Hunger may therefore reflect the poets need for company, and spiritual

intimacy. He asserts that he had an abnormal relationship with his mother. Therefore, he primarily desires the maternal love that he was deprived of; he searches for a substitute owing to attention-deficit. The speaker at the outset of the poem asserts that the flesh was heavy on my back. He experienced an incredible urge for sexual gratification. He finds himself before a fisherman, who is willing to compromise on his daughter. The fishermen puts forward the question carelessly. The word carelessly might point to callously, and to the fact that he did not put the question across with a sense of propriety. Will you have her? :was the question as though the girl in question was an item or commodity. Her individuality was relegated, and what she wanted was not of significance. For, even a prostitute has a command over her own sexuality, and who her customers ought to be. The fisherman was trailing his nets. The symbolism was apparent as he was laying out a net for customers. His insensitivity in his words were set out to erase the guilt from his purpose-that to sacrifice his daughter. He affected ignorance, as if the quality of ignorance seemed to sanctify the purpose itself. The white bone seemed to thrash his eyes, as though his very inner being wanted to thrash out against his vision. The poet followed him across the extensive stretches of sand. He heart was throbbing rapidly .His skin is said to perform the function of a sling. That is, as a sling supports a fractured arm; likewise the instinctive feelings of the skin helped fight back the apprehensions of the mind. Redemption from his sins perhaps lay in burning the house that he lived. Silence seems to consume his self, as though they tugged at his sleeves. The fishermans net had froth from the sea. Perhaps it may be symbolic of the fact that wrongdoings may leave apparent traces behind. His lean body in the flickering dark appeared like a wound. The inevitable wound that poverty had gifted him with. At the current moment, the poet felt he was at will, as free as the wind. The palm leaves scratched his skin, leaving marks of guilt. Hours in the shack are portrayed as stacks bunched up to those walls splayed by the burning oil lamp. It signifies that all the hours were similar confined to the small shack. The space in his blank mind was filled with soot from the lamp. The fisher man says: I heard him say: My daughter, she's just turned fifteen.../Feel her. I'll be back soon, your bus leaves at nine. He could comprehend the tricks that the father employed to allure customers. He viewed this stock of tricks as exhausted because perhaps most of them were already used numerously to suit his needs.

Fifteen was supposed to be an age where the girl was fully grown and fresh in her beauty. Nevertheless the years felt like cold rubber owing to impoverished malnutrition. He uses the term wormy for her legs as she opened then wide. The word reflects the speakers perception of the girl as abject as a worm, thin and slimy ;perhaps, something that was revolting to him at the moment. I felt the hunger there, the other one, the fish slithering, turning inside. For the first time, the poet understood the real meaning of the word hunger. Not owing to sexual displeasure but that driven by dismal poverty. The feeling of the empty stomach, as though the fish turned inside