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1) Who approached to Flora for a flower and why? “The Lotus” by Toru Dutt, begins with the goddess of love, approaching the flower goddess, Flora to create a flower who would undisputedly be the queenliest of all flowers. Both the lily and the rose, use their “bards of power”Continue Reading
1) What does Taru Dutt compare the Python to and why? The “beautiful last poem” in the Ancient Ballads and Legends of Hindustan by Toru Dutt, published in 1882, five years after her death, in which the “loving and observant spirit” of this gifted Indo-Anglian poet “finds, perhaps, its highestContinue Reading
Toru Dutt’s “The Lotus” is a Petrarchan sonnet that deals with the issue of crowning a flower as the queen. When Love looks for it, the choice cannot be made easily. Poets over the years have highlighted different aspects of the rose and lily, two contenders for the high honour,Continue Reading
“Our Casuarina Tree,” a poem written in English by the Indian writer Toru Dutt, celebrates the majesty of the Casuarina Tree as the poet/speaker remembers her happy childhood days spent under it and revives her memories with her beloved siblings. The fact that the tree is associated, in the speaker’sContinue Reading
The Lotus[1] Love came to Flora[2] asking for a flower That would of flowers be undisputed queen, The lily and the rose[3], long, long had been Rivals for that high honour. Bards[4] of power Had sung their claims. “The rose can never tower Continue Reading
Our Casuarina Tree[1] LIKE a huge Python, winding round and round The rugged trunk, indented deep with scars, thrust; cut Up to its very summit near the stars, A creeper climbs, in whose embraces bound encircled No other tree could live. But gallantly Continue Reading
