“IN OUR CASUARINA TREE WE GET A ROMANTIC PROTEST AGAINST TRANSCIENCE”DISCUSS.

 “IN OUR CASUARINA TREE WE GET A ROMANTIC PROTEST AGAINST TRANSCIENCE”DISCUSS.

In Tour Dutt’s Our Casuarina Tree the tree not only emerges as a symbol of the poet’s bygone days of childhood but it also subtly hints at the poet’s intense craving for permanence and eternity. The poem is a romantic protest against transience. The poem moves from observation to impression and transcends the limits of remembrance to reach the heights of reflection. The poet attempts to immortalize the tree through her verse. The theme of the poem is the supremacy of the tree over time and death. The trope of conferring immortality through verse was a Greek convention. It was also used by Shakespeare in several of his sonnets. Toru Dutt too adopts the same convention as she seeks to immortalize the tree from the ‘Oblivion’s Curse.’

The six stanza poem brings out the warmth of her relationship with the tree. It stood with its colossal form supporting a creeper growing around it. Whereas the first stanza gives an objective description of the tree, “the second relates the tree to the poet’ own impression of it at different times; the third Links up the tree with her memories of her lost brother and sister; the fourth humanizes the tree, for its lament is human recordation of pain and regret, the last stanza wills as it were the immortality of the tree.” (Iyengar).

The description of the tree in the poem reveals the poet’s minute and keen power of observation. The tree continued to defy the ravages of time and stood proud and strong with its huge from carrying within it the memory of the bygone years of the poet’s life. It served as a link between the past and the present for her. Removed far away from her homeland the memory of the tree gave her solace and comfort. Like Wordsworth seeking solace from his recollections of childhood and boyhood years spent in close communion with nature, the casuarina tree too soothed the poet’s intense craving for her homeland tormenting her heart. The poet’s intense nostalgia for the tree too reminds us of Wordsworth’s Longing for the ‘Sylvan Wye’ in The Tintern Abbey. The tree thus emerges as both a tree of her childhood as well as “a symbol that cuts across time and eternity.” (Prasad and Singh)....................................................................................................

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