The poem parrot in the cage...... The historico-political interpretation alludes to the Nepali society under the autocraticRanarchy in Lekh Nath’s time. In this line, Dayaram Shrestha argues that the poem “sketches arealistic picture of Nepali political environment during the rule of Ranas” (63). Shrestha furtherclaims that the thematic value of this poem lies in its “portrayal of the age” (64). In this sense,both the “cage” and the “parrot” respectively symbolize the Rana regime, which had seizedpeople’s freedom, and the Nepali people who desired freedom.The textual readings examine discernible universal elements in the poem: both itscommon themes and formal features. Thakur Parajuli represents its universal messages with suchconcepts as “faith in human liberty,”
