In this book, Desai quotes poems 12 different times, in addition to using a line by Iqbal as a part of a song at the end of the book.[24] Poets quoted include T. S. Eliot (The Waste Land and Burnt Norton),[25][26] Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal, Now the White),[27] Lord Byron (Isles of Greece)[28] Sir Muhammad Iqbal ("Thou didst create...into an antidote", and "Your world is the world...over my world you have dominion")[29] Algernon Charles Swinburne (The Garden of Proserpine)[30] and D. H. Lawrence (Ship of Death).[31] The poetry each serves to convey not only a particular aspect involved in the poem, but also the importance of education.
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