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pen down the summary in about 300 word..of the assigned book:

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the book name is: THE COLLECTED POEMS BY: AK RAMANUJAN
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Answer 1

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The Collected Poems includes about half of them, selected by six of his friends, his wife Molly and his daughter Krittika. Both wife and daughter have contributed briefly to our understanding of Ramanujan's new collection of poems, The Black Hen, Krittika with a two-page preface, and Molly with nearly four pages.

I take the opportunity of describing briefly the career of Ramanujan from the early'50s to 1993. Apart from his interest in writing poetry in English, he was gifted with extraordinary powers as a scholar and language learner.

The note on him in his Collected Poemsreminds us that "his interests included folklore, anthropology, structuralism and biculturalism". None of these kept him from his host of friends, all of whom benefited from his frank critical response to every theme he discussed with all of them (including me).

Self-critical, hard-working, persistent, intellectually adventurous and yet not egoistic, Ramanujan never seemed to waste a moment of his life. Nor did he have any illusions about his creative and critical writing, which he rewrote over and over again. Not one of his poems or prose statements was treated as "inspired". He read them again and again, rewrote them, and often accepted critical responses from his friends.

I assume that I need not deal with the first three of Ramanujan's poetry books: The Striders (1966), Relations (1971) and Second Sight (1986), Reading them again, I can't help falling in love repeatedly with those I have always loved.

It is the new poems - 60 of them under the title The Black Hen - which I need to comment on. Molly Daniels - Ramanujan, in her 'Note on The Black Hen and After', rightly asserts: "Nothing is simple in these poems: the seeming simplicity is deceptive. For example, in the title poem The Black Hen, a maker (poet) looking at what he has created becomes terrified." I quote the whole poem:

"It must come as leaves 
to a tree 
or not at all. 
Yet it comes sometimes 
as the black hen 
with the red round eye 
on the embroidery 
stitch by stitch 
dropped and found again
and when it's all there 
the black hen stares 
with its round red eye 
and you're afraid."

Any reader who cannot interpret this poem may find most of the others equally if not more difficult to understand. Yet, once it is grasped as a whole, it may remain with the reader as a warning against simplifying the problems of literary creativity.
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