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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.

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.

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.

Portrayal of Misplaced and Marginalized Women in the Meira Chand's The Bonsai Tree

PATRON INFO SYSTEM, 202, 2023

Meira Chand is one of greater writers of contemporary era. Her novel The Bonsai Tree is a beautiful novel about women exploitation. Born in 1942, the author currently resides in Singapore. Her beautiful novel, The Bonsai Tree is considered as one of the good novels in diaspora. To talk about the main theme of this novel is the exploitation of women in so many ways. So far as her works are concerned these type of characters are always involved in alienation, sense of belonginess and subjugation. Meira Chand in this novel vividly explores the rich experiences of women who are displaced from their native places, either through their will or in forced condition. Such type of women could always face a sense of dislocation and cultural alienation as they tried to navigate their new surroundings and to preserve their identities and find a sense of belonging. Meira Chand's this work in true sense explores the theme of marginalized and misplaced women, shedding light on their struggles, aspirations, and the societal forces that contribute to their disenfranchisement. The author has tried her best to curb this exploitation and slavery system by expositing it in her work. Women are misused in every sector especially when they start their working in some organisation. The current paper focus on portrayal of Misplaced and Marginalized Women in author's literary work The Bonsai Tree. She has not left any stone unturned in exploring it. The present novel portrays these women with depth and sensitivity, allowing the readers to empathize with their experiences.

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