Book Review
Majuli:The Vatican City of Assam by Arbind Kumar Choudhary is primarily a poetry collection in which the cultural heritage of Majuli in general and the river junction in particular has been painted painterly to create spiritual whirlwind here, there and everywhere. The Satra and the Bahmaputra are the jewels of this cultural capital of Assam.Poetry is his passion in which he plays with the words and the styles as if they were the erogenous zones of his sweet heart. His constant romance with various forms of verses that he explores and experiments in one poem after another makes him a versifier of first water in Indian English poetry.
The   iridescence of the inflorescence incites the suitors for the dalliance. Epithalamium, elysium, imperium, rosarium,  athenaeum,   delirium,  odeum etc are the uses of the words that are  rarely found  in  Indian  English  literature. Autumn  is the guerdon  of the faery lands forlorn. Summer’s  honey breath  is the perianth  while wintry  fort  is  a  cold  comfort.Beauty captivates all the senses. It produces joy to the eye of its purity, offers the pleasure of touch by its coolness,
gladdens the senses, of smell by fragrance of its lout uses, pleases the ear with the ceaseless murmur and delights the taste with its sweetness .The  immortal love-episode of Sita- Ram, Radha- Krishna, Laila- Majnu, Heer-Rangha,  and   Shakuntala-  Dushyanta    frame  of  mind  of   all  those  who  were  deprived  of  a  sip of  spiritual love. His attack on  lesbianism, homosexual, house of sale, marriage and abortion   makes him a poet of philosophy rather than emotion. Lesbianism,  nudism,  and  sapphism   are  the  unnatural   call  of nature  that  pollute  the  hurst of  the love nest on the name of love. Bread  and  cheese   marriage  of  the sexage  encages  the wage  of  the  lovely  paysage.They  are  fruitful  for  all  the  ages  and  for all the times. Spiritual  sanctity  is  his  poetic  world  that  keeps  the wolf  from the  door  for  the  fair  play. The  firth  of  the  labyrinth  is  the earthily  mirth  against  the  sublime  myth. Poetic  terrain   is the  natural train  that  is as right  as  rain  of  the  chaplain. Pauper,  nature  and  other  suffering  classes  are  poetically  focused to  keep the natural  sanctity  in  order. The  more one  suffers,  the  more  one  gets reward. Suffering  is  the  capital  idea  of  his poetic  inflow.
The most distinctive poetic feature of his verses is the blending of three or four phrasal words in the quintain that has been found wreathed artistically just like the beads of the garland. The blending of the phrasal words in plural numbers in one quintain after another makes him the Phrasal Monarch so far the phrasal fragrance in Indian English poetry is concerned.The phrases are highly provocative, thoughtful and sensational. The phrasal  words reveal not only the phrasal maturity of this Phrasal King but also the density of the phrasal passages for the Phrasal School of Poetry in Indian English literature. The exploration of the Phrasal School of Poetry in Indian English literature justifies the global recognition of Indian English poetry without doubt
Choudhary paints the beauty of nature better than Nature can display its beauty. He presents the natural objects to stir the suitors to its climax. The stirring spring, peeping moon, scarlet tippet, tying purple, spring azure, motley paysage, the passion flower, spring  suitor, sapling spring, seasonal flood, and spangled golden star are all sensuous.
The blending of Indian mythical  messiahs with their western counterparts adds additional beauty to  the poetry  of this Phrasal King that makes it more and more fragrant for Tom ,Dick and Harry across the continent .His blending has made a bridge between the two grand culturally rich civilizations of the world . As a result his poetry books are equally of great importance in the east and the west. He is undoubtedly the mythical messiah in the popular psyche of Indian English poetry .His uses of various figures of speech, native, compound and new words, abundance of the phrasal, proverbial and pictorial passages, poetic beauty, philosophy of sufferings in life and various other poetic tools establish not only a new school of poetry but also fires the poetic passion of the peeping poets for poetic perfection in their careers. Dr.A.K.Choudhary fondles Indian culture, myths,folktales,folklores, native gods and goddesses that appear again and again across his verses with great expertise. Sometimes Choudhary becomes  a romantic poet while he deals with the romantic features. But the  critics  also find satire, irony, ridicule and other neo- classical features of the Augustan period. As a social painter he is second to none in Indian  English  literature. The suffering for humanity, pictorial poetic passage, lyrical luminosity, imaginative vision, love for ruralscape and junglescape earn the crown of Indian Keats while the phrasal fragrance of his verses make him the Phrasal King in Indian English poetry.The pictorial painting and sensuous sanctity make him Indian Spenser while the abundance of the rhymed verses makes him the Quatrain King in the domain of English poetry in India. Majuli  is  the  river locked  island  where  his  poetic  aster  blooms  to  its climax in good humour. Natural sanctuary is  ever  superlunary  like  the  cartulary of the luminary. The   ecological  music  is the  best  song  and  greenery is the  epiphany for hegemony. The  divine  cartulary  is  ever condolatory that stirs the gantry of the  gentry. The seasonal trimester holds water for the pater noster. His poetic paysage perfumes the poetic world with philosophy of nature for  the  universalism and  humanity on this earth. His  motley may, celeste colour, pigmented  cadmium, tyrian purple, staring spring, green pansy, dew  dark  obscurity, natural  tornado, Aladdin’s lamp, stellular ether, privet thicket  etc are  the unique   composition of the words that add additional  beauty  to his  poetic  anthem.
Poetry book: Majuli:The Vatican City of Assam
Pages.78
Publisher: Authors Press, Delhi
Price:INR.250/
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