Our Casuarina Tree is a poem by Toru Dutt‚ an Indian poet.The poem gives an objective description of the tree and the charm associated with poet’s childhood. It begins with an account of the giant tree with a creeper wrapped around it like a huge python. It is the centre of busy life of birds and beasts. The tree is depicted as grand and charming. It has become dear to the poet because of the memories that surround it - memories of a time when happy children played under its shade. The thought brings
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"Our Casuarina Tree" Toru Dutt: the poetess‚ while living abroad‚ is pining for the scenes of her native land and reliving the memories of her childhood. In the first part of the poem the poetess depicts the casuarina tree trailed by a creeper vine like a huge python‚ winding round and round with the rough trunk‚ sunken deep with scars. It reached to the height touching very summit near the stars. The casuarina tree stood alone unaccompanied in the compound wearing the scarf of the creeper hung with
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“rose-red” dyed‚ And “lily-white‚”- the queenliest flower that blows. ~Toru Dutt _________________________________________________________________________ Explication of “The Lotus” Toru Dutt was an educated young woman who had traveled to Britain and France during her childhood. British literature and culture influenced her and is demonstrated in various work by Toru‚ including “The Lotus”. In the poem‚ Toru presents the idea that the lotus is the most beautiful of all flowers in order
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trunk as a python to open the poem helps to do this in the most immediate of stages. At the same time‚ the convergence of different animals around one natural element also helps to do this. There is a certain feel of the poem that brings to the light the idea that a timeless quality of the tree and the world around it possess. I think that this is what I find the most fascinating about the poem for this might be how India could be described to the West‚ and given that Dutt was one of the first poets
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and can no longer afford the luxury of mediocrity if we are to forge ahead. This rapidly changing nuclear age requires our youth to be intellectually far more alert and competent than their predecessors‚ and therefore every young man and woman today studying in schools‚ colleges and universities must aim at academic ability of the highest order. In a developing nation like ours‚ where large numbers are still unable to acquire even primary education‚ those undergoing higher education constitute a
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’’ THE CASUARINA TREE ’’ is one of the most touching poem by Toru Dutt who was born in Rambagan ‚ Kolkata. She had two siblings Aru & Abju . Both of them died and Toru was gripped in deep melancholy. Actually this fact influences the entire lyric......... The casuarina tree is winded round by a networks of creepers which resembles a python curling and crushing its prey.The beautiful red flowers excucively decorate the entire casuarina teee.They attract the bees and birds
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Tour Dutt was born on March 4‚ 1856 in Bengal and she died on August 30‚ 1877‚ in the prime of her youth‚ at 21. She is often called the Keats of the Indo-English literature for more than one reason - her meteoric rise on and disappearance from the literary firmament‚ as also for the quality of her poetry. James Darmesteter pays a befitting tribute to her‚ "The daughter of Bengal‚ so admirable and so strangely gifted‚ Hindu by race and tradition‚ and an English woman by education‚ a French woman
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writes this in reminiscence of the Casuarina tree that grew in the courtyard of her childhood home. The poem opens with a description of the tree‚ tall enough to make it seem like it touches the stars‚ strong enough to continue growing despite scars on its trunk and despite all this it provides support to a creeper. And yet she gives it the air of a Gentleman when she describes how the tree is forever adorned with flowers and birds and bees. Thus we see the tree in her childhood was not only as a
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news campaign‚ including Dr. Prannoy Roy and Barkha Dutt. NDTV 24x7 is also available outside of India‚ broadcasting in the UK on the Sky Digital platform‚ in the U.S. on the DirecTV platform‚ in Canada on the ATN platform‚ in Australia on the Vision Asia platform‚ in Europe on the WorldTV platform‚ and in Singapore on the mio TV platform. We the People is a television talk show in India and running over NDTV. TV journalist Barkha Dutt hosts this show. The program broadcasts every Sunday
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Barkha Dutt is the face of new liberated Indian woman. This unbelievably brave woman can do anything‚ go the war front or Taliban infested Afghanistan. There is absolutely nothing in her ’can’t do’ list. Where did the making of this famous Indian woman begin? Growing Up With A Role Model. Barkha Dutt is the daughter of an Air India officer and Prabha Dutt‚ a popular journalist in the 60s and 70s. So she had all the inspiration she needed right at home. She had an exceptionally good education wherein
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