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Arvachin Kavita
Poetry survey by Tribhuvandas Luhar ()
Arvachin Kavita (pronounced[ərvɑːtʃiːnkʌvɪtɑ]) is a critical work by Gujarati writer, poet and critic Tribhuvandas Luhar, pen-name 'Sundaram'. The book offers a historical and critical survey of modern Gujarati poetry from to [1]
Publication history
[edit]As mentioned in the preface, Sundaram was asked by Gujarat Vernacular Society to write a history of Gujarati poetry written during to [2] Sundaram consulted the works of about poets, and out of these he assessed poets and their work in this book.[3] The book was first published in Its third edition was published in by Gujarat Vidhya Sabha.[1][2]
Content
[edit]The book presents an outline of the history of modern Gujarati poetry, and deals with the main currents of modern Gujarati poetry as it developed during a period of eighty years (–).[1][4] The poems evaluated here are divided into
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FIR over poem
'Bhukhi' was written in It describes a hungry girl from a backward caste waiting for a feast to end at an upper caste household so that she and her siblings can eat the leftover food scattered around on leaf-plates. The poet's sentiments are informed by sympathy but the words used to describe the backward community now seem offensive.
In fact, today, some of the words used in the verse will be deemed derogatory beneath Prevention of Atrocities
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The Crocodile and the Monkey
About the poem:
A poetic version of the moral tale of a crocodile and a monkey from the Panchatantra, The crocodile and the monkey by Vikram Seth is one of the poems from Seth’s Beastly Tales from Here and There, which is a collection of moralistic poems with animals depicting human traits. In the poem, a wife’s needs displace a friend’s. Mrs. Crocodile is drawn as a zaftig, scaly monstrosity with the expression of a nagging, vain, cuckolding wife. A good monkey may be hard to find, but Kuroop the crocodile has no choice but to satisfy his wife’s prandial passion by acquiring the mango-rich heart of the monkey. Only a foolish monkey would be so kind as to give a lowly crocodile the freshest mangoes from the trees. Kuroop the crocodile falsely convinces the monkey to attend their home across the river for a dinner. While the monkey rides upon his back, Kuroop generously offers him a choice as to the manner of death. But the monkey is not so easil