About The Author
raghavendra Narayan Singh (born 960) holds a Ph.D. degree in English literature from Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India. A bilingual author Dr. Singh is a prolific writer whose sixty three books speak of his merit as a writer. He has published his books on poetry, fiction, prose, criticism and pirituality. His major books in English include Shades of Darkness Novel), I will Sing Eternally, An Orchard for life, Shakespeare in India, Dance Draupadi Dance, It's A Mad Mad World, Papa, One Day I Will So (Poetry), Poetry of W.H. Auden (Criticism), Glory Be to God, Book of God (Spirituality). Besides these, his pooks in Hindi include twelve novels, seven collections of short stories and twenty anthologies of poems. Raghavendra Narayan Singh served as Professor of English at S.B. Post-graduate College, Badagaon, Varanasi, India till his superannuation in 2021. His research papers are published in reputed journals. He lives at A-55, 212, Gautam Garden Colony, Shivpur Bypass, Shivpur, Varanasi,
Preface
Papa, One Day I Will Go is my sixth collection of English poems. These poems incorporate my ideas of life and the world. The medium of poetry offers the writer to utter his views most precisely. Among all the genres of literature poetry is most spontaneous and close to the heart. The sentiments expressed in the text of a poem directly touch the strings of our hearts. Be it related to any theme, the poem tries to unfold the truth which is often under the cover of false and misleading declarations. The duty of a poet is to let the public know what the truth is. Poetry enables the reader to recognise not only the truth but also his own true being. The theme of poetry is as vast as the universe itself. As W.H. Auden said in one of his essays that anything between earth and heaven could be the subject matter of poetry. It's so ture. We read poems which are composed on diffirent topics. They record the perception of the poet most truthfully. A poet is an average human being with extrordinary vision and skills to express his perceptions with the help of words, symbols and facts of life. His objectives are to make the readers aware of the realities of life. His expressive capabilities make him unique and uncommon. What goes mostly ubobserved by the common men and women comes automatically within the purview of the poet. Without getting didactic, he presents his opinion remaining unbiased and truth-oriented. He awakens the dormant sensibilities of his readers. He is not disinterested and depersonalised. Rather he is very much interested and his personality is artistically reflected through the text of his poems. There is no harm if the poet is interested in what he is speaking to the readers. This increases his credibility. His interest is to make the reader awakened to the hard realities of life. In the poem entitled 'A Year is Gone', the poet looks at the death of a year from a different perspective. Years come and go as usual in a routine way. Poeple celebrate the New Year by bidding goodbye to the old one. But the persona in this poem finds the death of a year nothing but an illusion. The way he thinks of the death of a year is most significant: Death of a year is simply an illusion It is created to mitigate temporal confusion Minutes, days, weeks, years and millennium Are nothing but our intellect's inventions That's why it's futile to make fuss Over an issue that is not in syllabus Instead of getting depressed over the death of the bygone year, the poet exhorts his readers to enjoy life as it is there before them. The final lines unfold the poet's views most conspicuously. "The passion for living', in the opinion of the poet, is 'in itself a reward' whereas other considerations seem to him 'a tale most absurd'. The poetic persona in the poem 'A Foggy Morning' is ready to go for his daily morning walk but the onset of the dense fog prevents him to step outside.
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