Question

summary of the earthen goblet poem by harindranath chattopadhyaya

Answer 1

Self-Portrait" is a short poem by A.K.Ramanujan, a well-known Indian poet and writer. This poem is about identity, specifically the identity of a son to his father. ... The lack of focus in his own life is reflected in the window: "the portrait of a stranger," and he cannot relate to the reflection.

Answer 2

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The poem "The Earthen Goblet" by Harindranath Chattopadhyay  has been written as a dialogue between the poet and the earthern goblet. The poet wants to know the goblet's feelings when it was taken from the earth and shaped into a red goblet by the potter. The goblet answers this question in the next three stanzas of the poem. The earthern goblet's answer is suffused with a feeling of sadness, unhappiness and helplessness over its transformation from shapeless clay to a colorful thing.  The goblet elaborates on its natural instinct to break away from the potter's warm hand in order to retain its true identity.

The goblet further complains that its  present form as an earthern goblet is death for it as it no longer enjoys  the aromatic, sweet-smelling, strong friendship of a little flower bursting out of its bosom as  it used to enjoy in its previous form of shapeless clay. The goblet loathes and despises its colourful goblet shape  and views it as death. For the goblet, this new colorful form is not only artificial but also temporary and misleading.  The goblet loves and prefers its clay state that is natural, shapeless, true and everlasting. It laments that this new shape has alienated it from nature.

The new form of the earthern goblet has made it a prisoner and it no longer enjoys the freedom and liberty that it once enjoyed as shapeless, natural clay. Its new purpose of being used as a vessel does not provide any real happiness to the earthern goblet.