The Title; the Garden:-
The title is very suggestive and apt.
The garden ‘Baugmaree’ is the main subject of the poem. The poet describes
scenic beauty of the garden of her family. It shows her love for nature.
The content:-
The garden covers her home. It girds
around with its ‘sea of foliage’ of shades, with its vivid splashes of
different colors. The sea of foliage isn’t dull. Green colour has variety.
There is light green colour of graceful tamarind tree. Mango tree has deep
green colour. Palm is also standing, no doubt it is green. They stand like gray
pillars so there’s dull green color. Red color is fascination. There are many
seemuls trees. They are almost cotton trees and they have maroon flower. They
look very much red. They are startling like trumpet’s sound. They are leaning
over the quite pools. Bamboos are standing to the eastward. They look lovelier
than others, in moonlight. White lotuses are looking like a cup of silver in
the midst of such natural beauty. One is sure to feel free and cheerful.
“One
might swoon
Drunken with beauty then, or gaze and gaze
On a primeval Eden,
in amaze.”
Toru calls her garden a primeval Eden to be seen only with
amazement. “referring Eden
garden shows her deep reading in the Bible and her leaning towards the
Christian world.
Description of nature & Natural aspects:-
Toru is a poet of nature. This poem
reveals her “keen sensitiveness to nature and the responsiveness of her soul to
colour”. The poem also displays the poet’s love of nature. In describing the
garden, she adopts a simple diction and free rhythm. The most beautiful line of
the sonnet is: “Red, red and starling like a trumpet’s sound”.
But nothing can be lovelier than the
ranges.
Of Bamboos to the eastward when.. “
Diction:-
Metaphor:-
The sonnet is marked by metaphor and
similes. The beginning is remarkable metaphor: “A sea of foliage”. It is followed
by antithesis “but not a sea of dull unvaried green.” “Garden girds around’ is
a beautiful image. Tamarind trees are called graceful. Palm trees are compared
with pillars. The pools are quite.
Simile:-
A simile is figure speech in which the
compassion is explicitly stated usually by means of ‘like’ and as’.
Palms arise like pillars gray
“Red, red and starling like a trumpet’s sound”.
Moon
looks through gaps. Lotus changes into cup of silver. One becomes beauty
drunken as there is primeval Eden
garden.
Clauses:-
There
are many lines which have been joined by conjunction or by clause.
‘And
palm arise, like pillars gray, between’,
And
o’ev the quite pools the seemuls lean,
Red-red
and startling like a trumpet’s sound.”
When
moon looks through their gaps and
Phrases:-
Þ Contrast of all colors
Þ The light green graceful;tamarinds
Þ Amid the mango clumps
Þ O’er the quite pools
Þ Into a cup of silver
Þ Drunken with beauty.
Þ One a primeval Eden
Reversal of objectives is immediately noticeable e.g.
‘pillars gray’ , ‘green profound’. She uses adjectives but often she uses more
than one e.g.
Dull
unvaries green
Light green
graceful tamarinds
Red red
Repetition:-
Some words serve as the epithets – a
repetition. “green’ word has been repeated, so is ‘and’. For comparison ‘like’
word is used two times. Other examples are ‘red-red’, ‘gaze and gaze’.
Sound and sense:-
Toru is aware of the form of sonnet.
She is following petrarchan style. The rhyme scheme is : “abba abba cd cd ee.”
Assonance
and consonance too create rhythm. Sounds in pair words, in phrases and in lines
sound beautiful. E.g.
A sea of foliage girds our garden
round (/g/, /e/, /r/, /d/)
Sharp contrast (/a:/, /t/, /r/ )
Pools the seemuls lean (/e/, /i:/)
But nothing can be lovelier than the
ranges (/n/, /a/, /n/)
The light green a trumpet’s (/l/)
Some
pair words:
Green
graceful, all-colors,
Green-profound looks through
Arise
like starting like a
trumpet’s
There’s
free rhythm.
Among her few excellent poems, no
doubt, this is one. She absorbed the art of Sonnet,
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