A Ring to Me Is Bondage
-- Mina Assadi
Mina Assadi, who was born in Iran, is a famous poet, author and journalist. She lives in Sweden as an exile. Her poetry mainly deals with oppression against children and women.
Mina Assadi considers religion as an element of subjugation. She does not think of prayer mats because it is a symbol of religion and bondage. She loves instead to think of gardens and open roads that suggest her desire for freedom. The silk roads are open and free. So a freedom lover like Mina Assadi likes the silk roads rather than prayer mats. Roads, sparrows and walk signify the positive spirit. Prayer-mats, net, cage and gaoler signify unhappiness.
The poet loves solitude. She is happy with the loneliness of the desert. A lonely desert is home to her because home is where a person is free, happy and secure. Anything that evokes sadness is ‘love’ to her. Anyone who plucks a flower is blind. Anyone who traps a fish is a murderer. The sea is a source of constant fascination and she is jealous of it. She considers the marriage ring as a bondage because marriage restricts the freedom of women. So Mina Assadi does not like the ‘ring’.
Thus, Mina Assadi introduces herself as a very determined person in the poem, “A Ring to Me Is Bondage”. She calls upon every woman of the world to resist, to battle against oppression of any kind.
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