NITN | @notintownlive | 16 Mar 2018, 01:25 pm
Modern poetry is often difficult to explain or understand as it is open to many interpretations. Its meaning keeps changing with time and contexts.
Leaves of Green Chillies by H.L. Agnihotri is a beautiful collection of poems where he has intertwined coherence and complexity with the texture of splendid language.
The poems are composed in a metrical pattern and are metaphorical.
The anthology of poems is a new edition, modified, and revised version of previously sung themes with some fresh additions to them, scattered in different places in the other books of the poet.
To begin with, the poems are written in the first person. The poems are reflective of his deep observations of life.
He is seen to review the journey of his life so far, pondering on the life lessons, and sharing snippets of his memories.
He shares his feelings, thoughts, and perceptions with readers so that we know his experiences—both the pleasant and the difficult ones—and learn important life lessons from them.
In many of the poems, he is found to be addressing his beloved wife about their days of togetherness and reminisces of their matrimonial journey and the bitter-sweet memories they shared on that journey.
He mulls on the existence of men, human heart, his journey of life, and the happenings in the society around him.
He observes how human values have degenerated in current times and realizes that though life hurls many challenges at us, with hard work and determination, one can overcome any obstacle and achieve one’s goal.
In the poem ‘Waiting for Krishna’, he talks about the battlefield of life and calls himself a warrior like Arjuna.
Arjuna, in spite of being a brave warrior, could not take up arms against his own people on the battlefield. The author too stands in his life’s battle front, but he falters in his tracks because he is trapped between his mind and his heart.
Like Lord Krishna counselled Arjuna to fulfill his dharma in the Bhagadvadgita, the author longingly awaits for Lord Krishna to come and guide him too in this critical juncture of life.
However, realization dawns on him at the end of the poem that when it is his battle and his battlefield, the way to victory is not very far.
Again, in the poem ‘Script of Sins’, he talks about individuals’ life-books which are written in the scripts and biographies of one’s sins and crimes.
The poetry is full of metaphors and beautiful figures of speech. The narrative is lucid and clear.
- Plastonix -Vee Technologies to develop a plastic waste recycling system in Karnataka
- Eighty students attend interactive session titled 'Connecting Hearts and Minds' in Mumbai-based institution
- Srijit Mukherji, Swastika Mukherjee launch author Soma Bose's second book 'I’ve Had Enough of You'
- PE firm TA Associates' strategic investment in Vee Healthtek
- Alive India and ITC Aashirvaad Svasti Milk releases Chhath Puja anthem
- Kolkata: Rotary hosts World Polio Day with students in Gyan Manch
- Alive India in Concert celebrates 10th season with Sunidhi Chauhan's performance in Bengaluru
- Narayan, Narayan: Why Jeevan is bigger than Sean Connery as James Bond
- New York teen sensation Urjani De shines at New York Puja Association's Cultural Programme 2024
- Sunidhi Chauhan teams up with Alive India Foundation to empower independent musicians, raise awareness on thalassaemia eradication
Jazeera Airways, Kuwait’s leading low-cost carrier, is offering 50% off on fares to all destinations across its network from July 28 to 31.
New Delhi : Air India Express, a subsidiary of Air India and a part of the Tata group, has launched its "Time to Travel" sale on the airline’s website, airindiaexpress.com, the Air India Express mobile app and other major booking channels.
Tokyo: Airlines were forced to cancel over 300 flights following the collision between a Japan Coast Guard aircraft and a Japan Airlines passenger plane at Tokyo's Haneda Airport on Tuesday evening even as reports said the plane was cleared to land ahead of the tragedy.