Question

What is the central idea of the poem the peacock by Sujata Bhatt??​

Answer 1

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The Peacock' is a poem by Sujata Bhatt, a diasporic writer who lives in Germany. Her poems depict the unsettling feeling of a person living away from her motherland. The poem is taken from her Brunizem collection that won the Commonwealth Poetry Prize for the Asia section in 1988.

Answer 2

Answer:

The central idea of the poem ‘The Peacock’ revolves around the national bird of India. The poet describes the beauty of the bird which symbolically refers to India. The peacock, though a commonly seen bird in India, presented as a rare one by the poet. The “setting” of the poem is not clear, for it takes place in the mind of the poet. Yet, the poet’s description of the “peacock” and the ‘Pipal tree’, which is native to India, gives the vivid image of colorful India as a background to the poem.