| 词条 | Punarnava (poem) |
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Structure of the poemThe poem has a unique and original structure, which marks a departure from contemporary Indian poetry. Its five lines can be regarded as five stanzas or five paragraphs. The diction is that of prose, but the strong evocative imagery belongs to poetry of the highest quality. The five stanzas evoke images pertaining to five different sense organs - sight, smell, touch, hearing and smell. The poem can be thought of a bouquet of meditations on different paths to Truth. Excerpts from the poem"Punonnoba"-Punarnava? In some rainy month, did you decide to climb up our lichened wall, to reach the rusty tin-roof, transforming its shabbiness into velvet-green, to hang your emerald-pendants around the neck of our home? ***** All knew the perennial Madhavilata; the fragrant Hasnuhana; queen of the night. They gaped when they saw you running wild on our roof – Velvet-green, strange, unknown. We shouted with glee, "It is Punonnoba … Punarnava." That you had medicinal properties that your juice soothes and heals we never knew till the Vaid sent his servant, a demon who expertly climbed our roof hacked away at its emerald-fringed coverlet! Oh the despair and the hope the running out in soaking rain to watch your extending tendrils, sprouting leaves, growing in greenness … Punarnava … eternal companion on the root-top. That home was left behind, as birth-strings snapped. ***** A refugee, wanderer, I look for you, but no one here knows your name. No one knows a velvet-green medicinal creeper. Lost to me, Punarnava, your shade, your cool décor, your healing magic. Comments and criticismThe poem has received rave reviews since its first publication in 1995 in the anthology on Indian Poetry Emerging Voices.[4] The poem has been frequently quoted in scholarly analysis of contemporary Indian English Poetry.[5] The poem is regarded by critics as a jewel in contemporary Indian poetry.[6] Although outwardly the poem describes the leafy growth of a household creeper, it has a hidden message on the re-awakening of woman and regeneration of India's woman power.[7] Online references
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Notes1. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.indianpoetry.org/comp3.htm |title=Award Winning Poems - AIPC 1991 }}{{Dead link|date=November 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} 2. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.wasafiri.org/pages/content/index.asp?PageID=167 |title=Award Winning Poems - AIPC 1994 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140407102223/http://www.wasafiri.org/pages/content/index.asp?PageID=167 |archivedate=2014-04-07 |df= }} 3. ^{{cite web |url=http://poetrysplash.tripod.com/indiapoets.htm |title= Award Winning Poems - AIPC 1994}} 4. ^Poetry India - Emerging Voices by H K Kaul, Virgo Publications, 1991. 5. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.tribuneindia.com/2002/20020324/spectrum/book10.htm |title= Fourteen Contemporary Indian Poets – Rana Nayar in The Tribune}} 6. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.intralinea.org/monographs/zanettin/sr/editormail.htm |title= India Star Literary Review - Shampa Sinha's Siesta}} 7. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.museindia.com/viewarticle.asp?myr=2007&issid=12&id=626 |title=Female Poetic Activism - Punarnava |access-date=2014-04-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304091714/http://www.museindia.com/viewarticle.asp?myr=2007&issid=12&id=626# |archive-date=2016-03-04 |dead-url=yes |df= }} 5 : Poems|Indian poems|1991 poems|Works originally published in Indian magazines|Works originally published in literary magazines |
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