Critical Appreciation: The Voice of the Mountains by Mamang Dai Source "The Voice of the Mountains" is a poem by Mamang Dai. She is a journalist, writer, and poet belonging to the Adi community of Arunachal Pradesh. Arunachal Pradesh itself translates as 'the land of the dawn-lit mountains.' So it is no surprise that Dai, who often writes what classifies as "nature poetry," titled the poem, 'The Voice of the Mountains' giving a voice to her native land. The primary themes in the poem are immortality and change. Though the mountain remains the same - omnipresent and witnessing many lives, the world keeps changing. It highlights the eternal beauty of nature in contrast to the constant destruction caused by man, especially in the North East region. The mountains serve as a symbol in the poem for the rituals of indigenous people as well as the protector of history. It has nine stanzas with no rhyming scheme. The line count in the poem, too, is irreg...