Critical Appreciation of Lotus by Toru Dutt

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The poem entitled “ Lotus” has been composed by Toru Dutt  a great poet of the Indian English Literature. Toru Dutt  contribution in literature is so great that her name is known beyond the limits of this country . Unfortunately she died young and her early death was a great loss to Indo-Anghan  poetry.

                    Lotus is a beautiful poem containing a fancy of thoughts. The poem is personified love and flora . The poet has comoared the flowers of rose and lily. They have been treated as rivals.Rose is a symbol of beauty and love where as liliy is a symbol   for the title “ Queen of Flower  “. Each flower with its own support from poets , clm notes1.blogspot.com/2021/12/theme-of-untouchable-by-mulk-raj-anand.html ed for the title. At  this time God of love came to goddess Flora asking for a flower which would be unchallenged queen of Flower. The lily and rose always fought for this houner and many poets praised them and wrote poems on them. Some flowers told rose was better than lily  and other flowers compared lily to the beautiful goddess  face . Some flowers supported lily where as others supported rose. Love said he wanted a flower  which has a sweet smell like that of rose and which is very grand looking like that of a lily. Then Flora asked what colour flower does he want.  First love said rose red and later said he wanted both the colours. So Flora created a flower called lotus which had the colour of rose red from morning to noon and which had lily white colour from afternoon  till dusk of innocence and simplicity. For a long time , lily and rose had been fighting.At the end of the poem the lotus has been declared as the queen of flower because it has the redness of rose and whiteness of lily. Therefore the goddess of vegetation  ,Flora , declared lotus as the flower of beauty and grandness.

                                                                                                          Here the poet presents the idea that the Indian lotus  is the most beautiful of all flower and Hindu mythology is clearly visible in this simple poem. “Lotus” is a petrarchan  sonnet . It is divided into two parts  -  octave and sestet. The sonnet deals with a single idea , the octave proposing and the sestet resolving . A problem is raised in octave and resolved in sestet Toru Dutt,s mastery over the sonnet form is proved in this poem..

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