Water Wheel In A Stream Poem by Ananta Madhavan

Water wheel is a powerful image used in the poem! But as you say in your notes, I cannot see it as making a futile effort and not making any difference to the world. Either it can suggest that you have a solid personality never affected by the churning currents of the world as the wheel is not changed by the churning water! But I would like to see it as a device that converts the energy of flowing water into useful forms of power! People like you were doing almost the same.... channelizing the free flowing human resources into useful forms, though now outdated with age like the water wheel! Yet.....as an antique piece its value is double! Great metaphorical use! !