Pine of An Apple Pine of an Apple (Poem (original) (raw)

My intimate neighbour: Kunwar Narain’s poetics of trees

This article, dealing with the poetry of Kunwar Narain, focuses on poems in which trees are the central theme or its essential element. In the opening part of the paper, the most significant aspects of Narain’s poetry are emphasized: (1) it is poetry written from the perspective of an attentive observer who tries to give evidence of what he sees or experiences; (2) it contemplates human life and man’s attitude to values; (3) it immerses itself in the past and present but also looks to the future with anxiety and acts as a catalyst in the process of understanding reality, one’s social and cultural milieu; (4) it also resounds with mythological motifs and references to the Indian and world cultural heritage, allowing us to identify Kunwar Narain as a poet of culture. However, the poet also dialogizes with nature that, especially in his later works, becomes more and more prominent – a fully anthropomorphized protagonist, as e.g. the tree in the poem Merā ghaniṣṭh paṛosī (My Intimate Neighbour). In the main part of the article, which is based on the analysis of ten such “tree-poems”, I discuss these poems’ structure as well as different linguistic and stylistic devices in the use of trees adopted by the poet that together translate into Kunwar Narain’s poetics of trees.

FEMININE SENSIBILITY: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF FLOWERS OF SILK COTTON TREE AND SULTANA’S DREAM

LangLit An International Peer-Reviewed Open Access Journal, 2021

The Present paper ruminates about the sensitive discourse of Feminism. Since the birth of earth, it is believed that this world is celebrating the importance of Women but yet the very question of why we need to celebrate? Somewhere the answer lies in the question itself that we celebrate to understand the value, to recognize importance. The Present Paper throws light of some of the ideas of patriarchal society where the existence of women is still questionable. The study pays attention towards comparing the work through the light of feminine sensibility. To be sensible for women is to evaluate, equate, and to encourage the very notion of 'Existence' and 'Space' of women. The Paper is an attempt to analyses the feminine sensibility discussed in Dhiruben Patel's Flowers of Silk Cotton Tree and Sultana's Dream by Rokeya Shakhavat Husein. Feminism the very idea is the soul of understanding the inimitable significance of females in traditional society. Therefore, the very question of a female's certain behavior for certain actions is whether taken as a reaction or recreation of the idea of feminism. Here in this paper researchers try to examine works in the framework of Feminism. Though both the works belong to different language cultures and therefore we find in them different treatment. The projection of patriarchal system varies in both narratives, dystopian society, individual existence all these are at the center of these paper. The stereotype gender structure 'relocated', 'reshaped', 'recreated' by the authors has left us with many open interpretations of the 'Power' and 'Patriarchy' in society.

LONELINESS IN THE POEMS OF KAMALA DAS

IASET, 2021

Kamala Das is one of the most prolific and controversial poets and writers of the post-colonial era in Indian English Literature. Her writings have been viewed more in terms of sexual connotations than for their literary merits. Most of the studies on Kamala Das have been centered round on her love poems and man-woman relationships as love has been considered as the most dominant theme of her poetry. Since she writes with the feelings, emotions and sensitivity of a woman and her world and voices her anger against the patriarchal design of the subjugation of women, she has been branded as a Feminist Poet. No woman poet ever before penned her feelings so candidly, intensely and intimately of her subjective experiences as she did in the creative genres. It led her to stand in the category of Confessional poets. However, these are merely the tips of the iceberg. Very few attempts have been made to understand the 'loneliness' of the woman in her writings which unfortunately form the big mass of the iceberg that has remained unexplored. Loneliness is a predominant theme in the poetry of Kamala Das. The present paper explores it alongside her own explorative female consciousness. She raises her consciousness and seeks to live intensely and honestly on her own terms.

Female Voice against Patriarchal Oppression: A Study on Tree without Roots

Erothanatos, 2019

Tree without Roots (1948) is a debut novel of Syed Waliullah, a Bangladeshi novelist, short- story writer and playwright. In the novel, he focuses on vital social factors, religious fundamentalism, superstitions, domination of patriarchal society and subject to the ravages of nature. This novel deals with misrepresentation of a religion and dominating a society by means of that religion. In this novel, Majeed, the protagonist and central character, represents oppressive patriarchy who dominates everything of Mahabbatpur village. He claims to be a religious and spiritual guide of the people and thus establishes his position in the village declaring an antique grave to be the grave of a saint named Mudasser Pir. Jamila plays a significant and dominant role in this novel as a female character. She epitomizes the most salient and rebellious voice who questions and refuses oppressive patriarchy. She holds a feminist voice which is quite loud in this text. There are other female characters including Rahima, Kulsum and wife of Khaleque Bepary who represent different features of women of the mid-20th century Bengali Muslim society. This paper analyzes how Jamila voices for the silent majority of the society and how she speaks against all suppression of Majeed and breaks the binary boundary created by Majeed. Noteworthy to mention is that feminism portrayed by Jamila indicates radical feminism, a perspective of feminism signifying the elimination of patriarchal order of the society created by them.

Contemporary American Poetry of After Apple Picking : A Brief Study

After apple picking is illusory straightforward. Its undertones expose extremely thoughtful poem on mortality and change, in fact the poem is allusive .its exact allusions remain obscure ,learning it open some interpretation .These theme ,among others are present through the wide use of imagery (The term is one of the most variable in meaning. Its applications range all the way from the " mental pictures " which, it is sometimes claimed are experienced by the reader of a poem, to the totality of components which make up a poem)written in a single stanza of forty-two lines the poem is composed in loose iambic pentameter (alternating stressed and unstressed syllables in a ten syllable line),it is also written in rhyme ,albeit loosely the effect of this relaxed structure lends the poem a less formal and more conversational feel .Its descriptive language underlying composition maintain a distinctively poetic tone. In this manner 'after apple picking' itself squarely in the intersection between traditional and modern poetry a style that would serve frost throughout his career. The poem is a remarkable example of Frost's signature ability to present a simple scene, moving in its own right that still points to metaphoric depths that enable readers to interpret it in as many ways as they like. ABSTRACT

Like a Tangerine: Despair, Death, and the Poetic Self in Jibanananda Das's Select Poems

Dibrugarh University Journal of English Studies (DUJES), 2022

In the early twentieth century Bengal, a group of young artists called Kallol poets introduced modernism in Bengali literature through their experimental writings, and called for a revision of the traditional spiritual idealism Tagore and others held so far. This generation of poets truly captures the essence of the time, its general mode of depression though they are in some way associated with Rabindranath either through their appreciation or negation. The poetry of Jibanananda Das along with Kavi Nazrul Islam who belongs to the Kallol era fundamentally departs from the Tagorean ideal of humanism and consolidates literary modernism in Bengal. Das’s poetry is sensuous, surreal filled with violent imagery, creaturely human/non-human relationships and especially death thoughts. It argues that the poet Jibanananda is difficult to detangle from the person Jibanananda as he had to go through poverty, loss, and existential dilemma. The paper, therefore, would attempt to explore the poetic self of Jibanananda inscribed in that modern chaotic time. How his complex, nihilistic poetic expression, the theme of despair, remorse, and death, which are characteristics of the modern poetry merging the personal and political, nature and culture, and worldly and metaphysical would be the main thrust of this paper.

After Apple Picking……the TRINITY of Sleeping, Dreaming and the Somber

After Apple Picking, 2022

Robert Frost, an American poet, has written this poem in 1914, when he was 40 years old. And it was published in North of Boston, his second poetry collection. The poem illustrates three different aspects of the Trinity of Imagination: Firstly, a pastoral scene of New England life in autumn, characteristic of Frost's early works. The narrator is recalling his day spent picking apples on a ladder as he falls asleep. Secondly, a dying man who is looking back on his life, represented by apple picking, and of his regret for unaccomplished desires. The old man only wishes that he could do more before de dies, hoping it would give meaning to his life. Thirdly, the poet is himself imaging the cause behind the great exile of first Humans from the paradise till the End of Days, Adam and Eve, after Eve picked the forbidden fruit, "APPLE", from the garden of Eden (paradise), as it was being written by John Milton is his famous Epic poem, "The Paradise Lost". In which it is being narrated that Adam and resultantly the whole human race regrets and desires, if Eve had not been persuaded by the evil plans of the Satan (Devil), we, the humans had a Mortal life, free of the miseries and difficulties of the earthly life for the whole Eternity. Whereas scholarly interpretation of the poem focuses on the Trinity of themes of sleep, dreaming and the somber, conclusively to this piece, in which the narrator wonders if his oncoming sleep is a normal slumber or a long eternal sleep, like the sleep of misconception in which humans fell in and the Divine Eye was being shut, after being exiled from the Garden of Eden.

Ecological Interpretation of the Poem ‘On Killing a Tree’ by Gieve Patel

The inter-relationship between literature and the environment is called as Eco-criticism. It is about how the environment is reflected in literature. Though literature has dealt with environmental concerns right from the ancient times, it has never explored the relationship between man and nature as it is done in the present day with such an importance. It is also an interdisciplinary study of Ecology and Literary Criticism which is unusual as a combination of a natural science and a humanistic discipline. Similarly, ecocriticism is concerned with the relationships between literature and environment or how man's relationships with his physical environment are reflected in literature. This paper discusses the term ecocriticism with special interpreted Ecocritical views on the poem, ‘On Killing a Tree’ written by Gieve Patel.