A Study Guide for Agha Shahid Ali's "Snowmen"
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Snowmen
Agha Shahid Ali
1987
Introduction
Snowmen
is a poem by Agha Shahid Ali that engages in a mythologic portrayal of the poet's ancestors as men made of Himalayan snow. Ali was born in New Delhi, India, in the mid-twentieth century, just after the British-directed partition established Islamic-majority Pakistan and Hindu-majority India, two countries that have been at odds ever since. A central point of contention has been the coveted borderland state of Kashmir, which has retained a Muslim majority but is part of India. Kashmir was where Ali was raised, in a progressive Muslim household that, like the broader state, represented a crossroads of cultures, including Muslim and Hindu as well as Western. Ali moved to the United States in his late twenties to further his education and remained thereafter, traveling back to India from time to time.
Foregrounded in Snowmen
is Ali's relationship with his ancestors, which in the poem's terms remains an interactive one: whether imagined as mythical figures, ghosts, or simply people from the past, the ancestors continue to play a role in the poet's conception of himself. The challenge for the reader is to grasp the nature of this role, which is cast in ambiguous metaphorical images in a wondrous, wintry time and place. Snowmen
was first published in Ali's collection The Half-Inch Himalayas, part of the Wesleyan New Poets series, in 1987 and can also be found in his posthumous 2009 volume The Veiled Suite: The Collected Poems.
Author Biography
Ali was born in New Delhi, India, on February 4, 1949, as the second of four children in a family with a high educational pedigree: his grandmother was the first Kashmiri woman to be formally educated, while his father made a career as a professor and teacher's college principal. The family was Shia Muslim by tradition (though Ali's mother was Sunni), but the household was host to an array of cultural influences. Ali was exposed to Muslim, Hindu,