Evaluate Toru Dutt as an Indian English poet with reference to Our Casuarina Tree.

Evaluate Toru Dutt as an Indian English poet with reference to Our Casuarina Tree.

Ans: Toru Dutt was a product of 19^th century Bengal Renaissance. Harihar Das in Life and Letters of Toru Dutt describes Toru Dutt as a rare genius for her capacity to imbibe foreign languages.  “In all her too brief life she mastered Sanskrit and wrote in French and English with a grace, a facility and an individual distinction which has given her rank among the authentic voices of western literature.” (Das)   Her poetry is characterized by sensitive descriptions, lyricism and vigour and they revolve around themes of loneliness, longing, patriotism, frustration, nostalgia, dejection, illusions, exile and captivity. She struck a genuinely Indian note in her verse and was the first Indian woman to reveal the spirit and essence of her homeless to the west. Skillfully crafted, her poetry reflects a passionate commitment to theme, character and setting.

Toru Dutt’s Our Casuarina Tree is ‘a things of beauty’, that ‘is a joy for ever’. It has enabled her to carve out a permanent place for herself in the history of Indian English literature. Conforming to Toru Dutt’s other poems, the poem is tinged with an acute sense of loss, anguish, longing and nostalgia. In its form and content the poem reminds us of Keats’ odes.

Toru Dutt’s verses were attempts to reveal the soul of India to the west. Her poems were chiefly descriptive, romantic and evocative lyrics reflecting glimpses of Indian life. Her poetry is similar to Wordsworth’s in several aspects for it reflects a lament for the loss of innocence and pristine glories of childhood. However, unlike words worth Toru Dutt does not address childhood in general, but reflects upon her personal experience of loss and pain. In Our Casuarina Tree she wistfully recounted the days that she had spent playing near the casuarina tree that grew in her house. The tree had been a witness to her growing years. It had been an integral aspect of her simple life fraught with innocent joys and pains. The tree was close to her heart. ‘Beneath’ it she had played with her siblings until death had taken them away from her........................................................................................................

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