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/
