Indian Summer by Jayant Mahapatra Analysis
Explore the evocative poem "Indian Summer" by Jayant Mahapatra, delving into themes of nature, culture, and mortality. The poem vividly portrays the essence of India through powerful imagery and literary devices like personification, synecdoche, and consonance. Experience the beauty and depth of Mahapatra's words as he weaves a tale of crocodiles, funeral pyres, and the soughing wind against the backdrop of an Indian summer.
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INDIAN SUMMER By-JAYANT MAHAPATRA
Over the soughing of the sombre wind priests chant louder than ever; the mouth of India opens. Crocodiles move into deeper waters. Mornings of heated middens smoke under the sun. The good wife lies in my bed through the long afternoon; dreaming still, unexhausted by the deep roar of funeral pyres.
PERSONIFICATION- SOUGHING WIND DEEP ROAR OF FUNERAL PYRE SYNECDOCHE- MOUTH OF INDIA CONSONANCE/ALLITERATION- SMOKE UNDER THE SUN SOUGHING OF THE SOMBRE
