Night Train at Deoli
“THE NIGHT TRAIN AT DEOLI”
Romanticism is defined by S.T. Coleridge “as an addition of strangeness to beauty” and Ruskin Bond has wonderfully analysed the term of illusive romanticism in “The Night Train at Deoli”.The story begins from infatuations but finally it leads to an ardent love of the narrator towards the basket seller. It cannot be denied that adolescence is a period of storm, turbulence and finally it leads to conclusion. A period of psychological and physical transit. Deoli is a silent and desolate station and the author is very much sympathetic towards the lonely station when he used to go to meet his grandmother at Dehradun. The station is surrounded by canopy of trees, sparsely populated. He doesn’t know specifically that why on such a desolate station the train used to stop for ten minutes. Generally all the passengers used to sleep at that time “nobody got off the train and nobody got in”. He is in love with the silent beauty of the atmosphere, seemed that as if the town is a human being passing through a solitary life. He has decided to get down from the train so that he could be able to fulfil his satisfaction. On such a visit to his grandmother, one fine cold morning he is having the privilege to meet a basket seller, gorgeous and dignified; “she was a young girl walking gracefully and with dignity”. Abruptly she stops in front of the narrator while he is sipping a hot cup of tea to sell her basket. The narrator behaves initially in such a manner as if he is hypnotised. Unconsciously, he left his seat, following her. The girl wonders what the narrator is up to. Dramatic end to the climax took place as the basket seller understands something in her own language. In the authors mind there is an unexpected thrill with expectations. His expectation is fulfilled very shortly when she offers him a basket. Initially there is a pretention but there is a silent fulfilment. The narrator in order to keep her dignity he purchased one .The
Romanticism is defined by S.T. Coleridge “as an addition of strangeness to beauty” and Ruskin Bond has wonderfully analysed the term of illusive romanticism in “The Night Train at Deoli”.The story begins from infatuations but finally it leads to an ardent love of the narrator towards the basket seller. It cannot be denied that adolescence is a period of storm, turbulence and finally it leads to conclusion. A period of psychological and physical transit. Deoli is a silent and desolate station and the author is very much sympathetic towards the lonely station when he used to go to meet his grandmother at Dehradun. The station is surrounded by canopy of trees, sparsely populated. He doesn’t know specifically that why on such a desolate station the train used to stop for ten minutes. Generally all the passengers used to sleep at that time “nobody got off the train and nobody got in”. He is in love with the silent beauty of the atmosphere, seemed that as if the town is a human being passing through a solitary life. He has decided to get down from the train so that he could be able to fulfil his satisfaction. On such a visit to his grandmother, one fine cold morning he is having the privilege to meet a basket seller, gorgeous and dignified; “she was a young girl walking gracefully and with dignity”. Abruptly she stops in front of the narrator while he is sipping a hot cup of tea to sell her basket. The narrator behaves initially in such a manner as if he is hypnotised. Unconsciously, he left his seat, following her. The girl wonders what the narrator is up to. Dramatic end to the climax took place as the basket seller understands something in her own language. In the authors mind there is an unexpected thrill with expectations. His expectation is fulfilled very shortly when she offers him a basket. Initially there is a pretention but there is a silent fulfilment. The narrator in order to keep her dignity he purchased one .The