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Moonrise poem by savithri rajeevan summary. please help me , it is an additional english chapter the poem moonrise for bcom1st year by savithri rajeevan

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Savithri Rajeevan is a noted Malayalam poet and short fiction writer, based in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. She holds a post-graduate degree in Malayalam literature from the University of Kerala and another from the MS University, Baroda, in fine art criticism. She has taught art history in the Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanksrit, Kalady, and is currently an advisory board member of the Central Sahitya Akademi for Malayalam. Widely anthologized, she has published a volume of short fiction and four collections of poetry, most recently Ammaye Kulippikkumbol in 2014.

 

 

The poems selected here circle the theme of middle age and physicality in various ways. There is the ageing body, the frail, diseased body, the slippery, shape-shifting body, the perennially mysterious body. Selected from four volumes, these are extraordinary poems in their ability to view the body as a site of materiality, mutability and magic all at once.

 

Rajeevan makes no attempt to romanticize her subject. Instead, her ability to gaze with quiet, unblinking, sometimes almost childlike clarity at the body transforms it into a thing of wonder and beauty. What makes for effective poetry is that it extends the reader's ideas of beauty as well. A mother's wrinkled body becomes an infinitely tender meditation  on memory and mutuality. In another haunting poem, skin disease transforms a body into an exquisite mural, a prehistoric cave painting ("That Greek beauty on your thigh,/ filling her basket with flowers:/ her arms reach your knee/ her fingers holding a pale white flower./ She wants nothing/ short of a bison to ride,/ that pitch black beast/ bellowing on your breast.") In yet another, we see a body emerging from all attempts to etherealize, mythicize or exoticize it, into an undiscovered continent of mystery. A skilful weaver of metaphor, Rajeevan's poems are luminous and finely shaded, the politics clear but never facile.

 

Rajeevan is fully aware that of the alchemical power of the human imagination – its ability to confer and alter meaning. A grandmother's implacable faith can de-colonize the the moon, erasing the footprints of Armstrong and re-enchanting its terrain. Similarly, a diseased body can turn into an artefact, even Altamira, if viewed through the lens of wonder.

 

It is the lens that makes all the difference. And as a seasoned poet, Rajeevan is capable of viewing her subject from a place of clarity and obliquity at the same time. As she writes in one of her poems, "Glasses are the door/ Through which I talk/ to a stranger, a guest/ And a friend./ Through the glass I speak/ To children, flowers,/ And to God."

Answer 2

• For a series of poems written in the 1920s, Savithri collected the poem along with newspaper clippings about the poem.
• She painstakingly copied the clippings, cut them out, and pasted them into a scrapbook.
• However, it was not until years later, when she came to appreciate the value of her mother’s collection, that she first realized that her mother had saved a significant number of the clippings.
• The first poem in Savithri’s scrapbook was “Moonrise.”
• “A single moon rose slowly above the sea...” Savithri then began to closely collect clippings, and she continued to do so until she could number the entire collection she had amassed.
• The poem “Moonrise” also highlights the rising importance of technology in the daily lives of people around the world.
• While the poem had been published before, Savithri’s collection provided it with an important new context, making it resonate in a global and political way.

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