Prof Satnam Kour
TITLE OF THE BOOK: TOSHI TATHA ANYA KAVITAYEN
(TOSHI AND OTHER POEMS)
ISBN: 978-81-927016-0-8
LANGUAGE: HINDI
WRITER: Dr. Omprakash Gupta
PUBLISHER: Akshya Prakashan, Ansari Road, New Delhi
‘Toshi and Other Poems’ is a valuable and vibrant addition to the envious treasures of poetry in Hindi. This collection of poems has incessantly contributed to the existing intellectual potentialities and towering literary stature of Prof. O.P. Gupt. Poetry is a pious pursuit, spontaneous and urgent like the human breath, vital and of use like the latest human inventions.
In the present collection of poems, the poet crafts a world for readers where the foundations of everyday existence are exalted. Through these poems, the reader is bidden to scrutinize specifics of all things, varied issues and diverse aspects of life like trials and tribulations of human existence, naked description of social realities, ugly face of political system, degradation of Nature at the hands of modern man – all have been extensively dealt with.
Though the poet calls this book a collection of his personal memories and experiences, yet all the poems have a very fine tinge of universality. Most of the titles of the poems are symbolic. With beautiful symbols and metaphors, the poems seek to show the influence of words through words.
‘Chinaron Ki Awaaz’ is a fine example symbolic structure. Time and again, the poet uses the symbol of’1947′ to highlight the Communal tensions that tear apart the secular fabric of India not once but often, due to short-sightedness of political leaders. Personification of ‘India’ as ‘Mother’ divided by her own sons is painful and thought provoking.
Pious and incredible relationship with Toshi, the poet’s cousin inspires him to form citadels of feelings of nausea, memory and desire which are held close to his bosom with a rare fondness.
In most of these poems, there is an irresistible strain of romance wherein the personal becomes the universal and the universal becomes the personal.
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