Poetic devices used in Chipko Movement | Summary

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The poetic devices used in the poem are :

Alliteration :Head ,heart and hands to the year to be !

metaphor :to bear the yoke in youth;no maimed and sacrifice ,And mirth that has no bitter springs .

Simile:When we are grown and take our place

As men and women with our race .

Personification:The entire poem is personification.The motherland has been personified as living being .


The Poem:

A story that took place long ago

Famous by the name of Chipko,

It spoke of a very special bond

With trees, of which humans were

Oh so fond.

Some two hundred years ago

Lived the Bishnois in Rajasthan,

Their love for trees and nature

Was beyond any measure.

The Maharaja of the land,

However, was cruel and unkind

He wanted trees to be felled

So he could have a palace built,

A lady, Amrita Devi, her name

Vehemently protested the Raja's claim

She went ahead and hugged a tree

"I won't let you cut them", said she.

Her daughters too, opposed the king

But they and Devi, were brutally killed.

Soon the villagers got the clue

To each tree, they stuck like glue.

Day by day, the rebels rose

The king's intentions were now exposed.

He had to accept a grave defeat

Forced he was to retreat.

Summary

If seen, on March 26, 1974, just 244 years before the Chipko movement, born in Reni village of the marginal Niti valley of Chamoli district, in 1730, Amrita Devi of Khejadli village of Rajasthan along with the women of Vishnoi society, stuck to the trees and protected the trees. An incomparable example was set.

In that movement, 363 people, including Amrita Devi and her daughters, lost their lives to save the trees. But even after so many martyrdoms, that message of Amrita Devi could not spread in the same way as Gaura Devi's message of non-violent retaliation reached every nook and corner of the world. Know the story of the unsung heroes of the Chipko movement, senior journalist Jaisingh Rawat is telling..!

The Chipko movement, which started from Chamoli district bordering the Indo-Tibetan border, achieved global fame along with raising environmental consciousness to every corner of the earth, but Govind Singh Rawat, Shishupal Singh Kunwar and Ghanshyam, who filled the bricks in the foundation of that movement Many nature sons like Raturi remained anonymous.

African female environmental activist Wangari Muta Mathai has won the Nobel Prize. In India too, environment is the surefire way to get the award, but no one even demanded Padma Shri posthumously to Gaura Devi, the mother of Chipko movement.

Chipko was born 244 years ago

If seen, on March 26, 1974, just 244 years before the Chipko movement, born in Reni village of the marginal Niti valley of Chamoli district, in 1730, Amrita Devi of Khejadli village of Rajasthan along with the women of Vishnoi society, stuck to the trees and protected the trees. An incomparable example was set.

In that movement, 363 people, including Amrita Devi and her daughters, lost their lives to save the trees. But even after so many martyrdoms, that message of Amrita Devi could not spread in the same way as Gaura Devi's message of non-violent retaliation reached every nook and corner of the world.

Before Reni, in June 1973, Vanandolan had been successful in the forests of Rampur Phata of Kedar Valley. The hero of that movement was Block Deputy Chief Kedar Singh Rawat. There the Chipko leaders had given the responsibility of blowing the conch shell to Dayanand of Tarsali village as soon as the tree fellers arrived.

Even before that, on April 24, in Mandal valley, 13 km from Chamoli's district headquarters Gopeshwar, with the inspiration of Sarvodayi leaders like Chandi Prasad Bhatt and Anand Singh Bisht, those who cut trees without sticking to the trees were driven away from the forest. The hero of this local movement was the village head Alam Singh Bisht, who was supported by Shoshit Samaj Dal leader Bachanlal and social worker Vijay Dutt Sharma. But no one else got the fame which went to the movement in Reni village under the leadership of Gauradevi.




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