Introduction
Poetry comes first; then
comes prose. It in poetry that the post developments. In the fifties arose
school of poets who tried to turn their backs on the romantic tradition and
write a verse more in turn with the age, its general temper and its literary
ethos. By the fifties the ''New
Poetry" had already made its appearance. In 1958, p.Lal and his
associates founded the writer’s workshop in Calcutta which soon become an
effective forums for modernist poetry. So, let's discuss four wiles tones of
Indian in English.
Toru Dutt
Toru Dutt was known to us by her book
"The ancient Ballads and
Legends of Hindustan" Which also contains her smaller pieces. Toru Dutt was a
genius. In her short life span of 21 years, She created a body of poetry which
in the world of Milton,
"The posterity will not willingly
let die"
French poetry had exercised such a great fascination
on the young Toru that she rendered 200 poems of French poetry; include so poems of
victor-Hugo into English. Toru's French novel
"Le journal de mademoiselled' Arvers'' was a
great surprise to French critic.
Although a convert to Christianity, Toru Dutt
had imbibed the ancient spirit and lives of India. She was born artist. Toru
had an eye for the beauty and grandeur of nature. Her scenes and landscapes are
supers. The opening stanza of "our casuarinas Tree"
or else the
master piece in.......
"baunarec"
"A sea of foliage girds our garden round
But not the sea of dall unvaried
green...."
Toru Dutt's ideal was to
interpret the east to the west and she succeeded: Toru was a precious girl,
with a touch of genius: Edmund Gosse remarks,
"The pathos of unshed
tears, which we feel when we read of Joan of arc, of Keats, of Chatterton
extends to try and her short life of ecstasy"
Sri Aurobindo Ghosh
Sri Aurobindo was a versatile genious and an
intellectual gaunt. His outstanding achievements in prose, poetry and drama
rank him as the greatest figure of Indo-Anglican literature. Aurobindo holds
the for most rank among the Indian writers of English verse. Not many
contemporary poets, when among 'Englishmen', display his skill and ease in handling the blank
verse. He is indeed a poet of remarkable power and range. His 'Savitri' divided into 12 books and 49 cantos were conceived on an epic scale.
Aurobindo succeeds in finding
the language of the identities and even when he uses symbol and figure; it is
in a different fashion, less a veil, more as a real correspondondence.
According
Prof.
M.K.Naik.....
"Aurobindo is a poet of
varied achievements in lyric, narrative and epic modes"
Sarojini Naidu
Another gifted poet of
Indian verse was sarojini Naidu, the "Nightingale of India". Here career as poets began with
the publication in 1905, at her 26th
years of "The Golden
Threshold" it was followed by two more volumes.........
"The bird of times'' and ''The broken wing"
Sarojini Naidu was reserved the task
of interpreting the heart of India to western, readers to a "Buddha seated on a
Lotus" is proof of it......
"The wind of change forever
blows across the tinsel of our way to-morrow unborn depose the sorrows of our
yesterday"
But she had "A craving for
Beauty". Her emotions were easily stirred by the sight of beauty of color
or sound of nature and man, music and dance, mysteries of peace and tranquility
of gardens. Sarojini Naidu's poetry is essentially lyrical. It is marked by a
sweet melody, a touch of romance and the vision of a colorful world. The subject
of her poetry often bears relation today traditions and customs, romantic place
and places.
Rabindranath Tagor
Rabindranath Tagore' many
sides achievements almost take one's breath away. Lyrics, poetic plays, plays
of ideas, social plays, short-stories, essays in criticism, philosophical
essays, autobiographical fragments, letters, address, educational
dissertations- These have interruptedly hawed from his pen.
He was primarily a Bengali
writer; the only poem he composed originally in English was ''The Child",
the written towards the end of his life. Tagore’s master piece
"Gitanjali" was published in England with W.B.yeats introduction,
presently in 1913, Rabindranath was awarded the noble-prize for literature.
Thus, the award was a major land work in the history of Indo-Anglican literature.
Conclusion
In poetry the most sticking common note in all
the Indian literature is romantic fervor and passion and an exaggerated
subjectivism, where these have freed themselves from the traditional, mystical,
devotional pose and context. European nature poetry has also been thoroughly
imbibed and assimilated. Where Tagore nature lyricism or philosophical poetry
has provided the model, whether in Bengal in or in the other provinces.
superb one
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