What does the poet say that his childhood has gone to some forgotten place?
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He has been rediscovering the significance of Tukaram’s
poetry written in a confessional mode which is all inclusive,
which is a poet’s way of recording his own life and the life around
at various stages in his life. Chitre appreciated the major contribution made by
warkari saint poets in general and Tukaram in particular to Marathi
literature using forms like abhang and ovi. Lynn White Jr.
argued that the opening chapters of the Bible can tell us much
about our current attitudes toward the environment. Similarly most of the
poems composed by the saint poets like Tukaram and
Sanwata Mali have environmental implications. Such impact, especially
ecological, of Marathi saint poets brings to Chitre the sense of
environmental awareness.
Majority poems in Dilip Chitre’s As Is, Where Is (2007)
express feelings of disinheritedness, alienation and unrelatedness of
modern man due to his dissociation with social and natural life.
The event of breaking away from his ancestral house located at Baroda was a
turning point in the life of the poet. This event has left a lasting impact on
Dilip Chitre’s Marathi as well as English poetry.