The Golden Gate
The Golden Gate by Vikram Seth is a compilation of stories of the characters that appear in the book. Each character has their own story, views and opinions. Each character’s story is told with emphasis. The author particularly wants every voice to be heard. It is really hard to draw yourself out of this story especially when you find yourself drawn into it as if you were an active character in the book except you don’t have a voice. Reading this book is like sitting mute in someone’s living room while everybody else is having an animated discussion about the world. The story isn’t written in prose, it is written in the form of sonnets. It is written in iambic tetrameter and follows the ababccddeffegg pattern. As a rule each sonnet has 14 lines and since this book is written in iambic tetrameter each line of the sonnet constitutes of 4 iambs. The ending of each line rhymes in the ababccddeffegg format . The book constitutes 590 sonnets in all. The Dedication, Acknowledgements, Contents...