Question

Summary of the poem a low temple by arun kolatkar

Answer 1

‘A Low Temple’ by Arun Kolatkar is an account of his personal experience.

On one hand he talks about a temple, situated on a low level in which the priest shows the people deity in the light of a matchstick as it is complete darkness in the cave.

The other experience is about the poet seeing children play on a twenty feet high tortoise.

It is significant because it is considered as Lord Vishnu’s Karma avatar.

Answer 2

• The poem “A Low Temple” is written in a language that seems impenetrable to many because it is non-Indo-European.
• Kolatkar, however, was an Indo-Europeanist.
• His goal in this short poem is to prove his ability to write in this language, which was a mark of distinction at the time.
• In the poem, Kolatkar uses the Indo-European root *an- to construct new words that seem to be made up of unrelated parts whose combination creates an unfamiliar word whose pronunciation is difficult for the reader.
• Kolatkar's aim in the poem is not to write a simple poem, but to write a poem about the complexity of the language spoken at the time.
• In the poem he uses the root *an- to combine words that have the same meaning.
• The root *an- has a number of meanings, including a verb meaning to make a point, to make a point in a different way, to make a point with a different meaning, and to make a point with the same meaning.

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