Indian Poets During The Contemporary Period Essay

Richard Blanco is a Cuban- American poet who was given the oppurunity to write an inaugaration poem for Barack Obama's second swearing-in. He wrote a poem titled "One Today" that praised the good and unique things about the United States and also the everyday people who's daily routines help to make America the proud country that it is.

It goes without saying that Rabindranath Tagore is perhaps the most outstanding and the most widely-known among Indian poets. Tagore, we must remember, was not only apoet, he was also a novelist, a short story writer, a dramatist, a painter, a musician and a critic of distinction. He wrote a large majority of his poems originally in Bengali, and translated some of them into English, but it is also on record that he wrote a few poems originally in English. Tagore’s novels and short stories are rightly looked upon as social or sociological documents because what he seeks to give us through them is a picture of the contemporary human society. In spite of the element of romanticism that we get there we may describe them realistic in their own right.

My paper deals with the analysis of selected poems from “Gitanjali” by Rabindranath Tagore. Also it talks about what Gitanjali is all about and Rabindranath Tagore’s biography. He is the first non-European to be awarded with Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913. My paper also talks about his important work. I was deeply moved by reading his work as his poetry is spiritual in nature and it talks about his philosophies, peace and harmony is important for the nation and humanity. It includes my own analysis of three poems from Gitanjali “Leave this chanting and telling of beads”, “Where the mind is without fear” and “Cloud heaps upon cloud and it darkens”. My paper ends with the conclusion.

Reflections Within is a non-traditional stanzaic poem made up of five stanzas containing thirty-four lines that do not form a specific metrical pattern. Rather it is supported by its thematic structure. Each of the five stanzas vary in the amount of lines that each contain. The first stanza is a sestet containing six lines. The same can be observed of the second stanza. The third stanza contains eight lines or an octave. Stanzas four and five are oddly in that their number of lines which are five and nine.

This truth gave a light of hope that encouraged fearlessness and willpower among the oppressed Indians. This truth had its blades more sharpened than a sword; yet gentle enough for a child to hold. Through civil disobedience Gandhi fought against the evil of violence. Through suffering, he touched the stoniest of hearts. Through humility, he gained compassion.

Moreover, the consistent integration of imagination and historical memory imparts a powerfully suggestive sense of inevitability to Carter's ethics of change. The envisioned changes, even if unrealized, are as much a part of a distinctive historical pattern, as is the past which made the present itself inevitable. And this pervasive sense of inevitability inspires recurrent images and themes of movement.

     Anne Bradstreet and Emily Dickinson are both respected women poets in their own rights. Although in different manners, both poets discuss their poetry within their poetry. Bradstreet and Dickinson, as poets, were able to break free of male oppression and literary traditions of the period, to portray their emotions and imagination through their works, expressing their freedom and the construction of being a poet within the works. Dickinson and Bradstreet, however, wrote during different periods, where their styles greatly differed.

All six of these poems are trying to send out a message of how they

The literature around the world has different types of authors and each one of them with his own writing style. The period where they live affects their style because the writers are exposed to different circumstances and factors. The arrival of the Islamic religion influenced the Indian poetry. This changed the way how they thought and expressed through poetry, and according to K. S. Ram “The two important factors in the world of Kabir [post Islamic poet] (XV century) were: one, the change of the Vedantic religion dry, abstract intellectualism; and two, the fights between Hindus and Muslims had become a sad fact of everyday life.”. This essay will be focused on a comparison and contrast about the Indian poetry before and after the Islam.

This quote is important in understanding that Tagore was not just a poet. Tagore was an intellectual whose ideas played an important role in Asia in the 20th century. Although Tagore is not as well known for his philosophies. Mishra sheds light on Tagore’s philosophy in From the Ruins of Empire and discusses Tagore’s life and travels through Asia and the United States. Throughout the book, Mishra mainly focuses on Tagore’s views on the East and West because that was the pressing issue facing most Asian countries in the 1900s.

Bharatanatyam is a dance that is widely popular in India, and especially in the Southern part of India. Bharatanatyam is originated in Tamil Nadu a southern state in India. Along with basic footwork and hand gestures, Bharatanatyam also has the capacity to tell stories and emote various feelings to tell a story. The dance stems from a scripture called the Natyashastra, which includes all the guidelines about classical dance and performance etiquette. According to Sridevi Jagannath, a dance teacher in Cary, North Carolina, and the Director of Laasya School of Dance and Music, “Bharatanatyam is a dance that connects mind, body, and soul and has the ability to tell a story using expressions called the Navarasas and show emotions using the mind, body, and soul called Bhavam.” In Bharatanatyam, Navarasas and Bhavam play a major role like hand gestures and footwork. Navarasas are the nine emotions, erotic, humorous, pathetic, terrible, heroic, fearful, odious, wonder, peaceful. In simple words, Bharatanatyam is like a musical, but incorporates the Jathis, which are items of dance which are about two to three minutes. In Bharatanatyam, dance is not the only thing you need, but you also need music. Each dance in Bharatanatyam contains, Raga known as the tune of dance and Tala known as the beat or the rhythm of the dance. In every dance, the Raga and the Tala changes. Six different kinds of Tala. Originally, there are 72 Ragas, but there are always new compositions that happen. This

The Fibonacci numbers, also known as the Fibonacci sequence is a set of numbers where after the first two numbers, every number is the sum of the two preceding numbers. The sequence is usually shown in the following format; 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89...etc, although it has been shown to start with zero. This sequence is an important mathematical figure that is seen in many other theorems in mathematics and it was helped to push for a better form of mathematics by the man whose name was eventually attributed to the number sequence and also the surrounding natural world and attempts have been made to connect it with the human world, through anatomy and the stock market.

To her, India is young and fertile enough to beget new glories from India's ageless womb. To her India is fit for the leader-ship of nations that in fettered darkness weep. India was once the empress of the sovereign past. But the idealism of the poet suffers a set back at the sight of contemporary Indian scene, and she feels despondent for a while. Sarojini Naidu and her fellow compatriots see visions of a great dawn. The mournful night is over and her country wakes at last from her deep age-long sleep. Sweet and long slumbering buds of gladness open fresh lips to the returning winds of

The Fibonacci numbers also known as the Fibonacci sequence is a set of numbers where after the first two numbers, every number is the sum of the two preceding numbers. It begins in most examples at one however it has been shown to start with zero, the first ten numbers in the sequence are 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89. This sequence is an important mathematical figure that is seen in many other theorems in mathematics and also the surrounding natural world.

The relationship between language and resistance in Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things, is a site of continuous contest and struggle. Roy assumes a position within Western discourse to communicate her ideas, all the while challenging and rejecting the very structure she inhabits. Through her writing, rather than seeking to enter the canon of postcolonial literature, Roy strives to redefine it. Throughout the narrative, she subverts the rules and boundaries of language, internally pursuing a desire to resist both her colonial inheritance and the systematic oppression of Indian society. She fashions a language of energy and oppositionality to the colonial legacy through a construction and critique of the text’s cultural and imperial inheritance. Through language, Roy finds ways to resist any dichotomy that posits a correct way of being by writing to both counter her native culture and also to honour it. This essay will discuss how Roy manipulates the colonial language into a tool of resistance from the colonial language through her acceptance, subversion and subjugation of India’s imperial inheritance.