A.K. Ramanujan's poems
A.K. Ramanujan's poems
Hello Readers,
Here I share most famous Indian poet Ramanujan's famous poem and his philosophical ideas behind his poem.
A.K.Ramanujan
Attipat Krishna Swami Ramanujan as also known as A.K.Ramanujan was as Indian poet and scholar of an Indian literature who is white in English and Kandda. Ramanujan was a poet, scholar, philosopher, translator and play writer. His academic research ranged in five language English, Kandda, Tamil, Telugu and Sanskrit. He published work both classical and modern.
His famous poem –
👉A River
👉The elements of Composition
👉 Astronomer
👉Obituary
👉 Chicago Zen
👉Prayer to Lord Morgan
I like Chicago Zen poem. Ramanujan was modern poet this is example of his poem Chicago Zen poem. In this poem he described about transculture effect in the society. This poem is also best examples of hybridity, transculturalism and transnationalism. Maybe this poem poet express personal experience and feeling when he was in abroad in Chicago USA. Poem starting-
I
Now tidy your house,
dust especially your living room
and do not forget to name
all your children.
The above line has to different meanings. The first meaning is very simple, it is said that it is necessary to keep house clean where we like. It is even more necessary to keep the living room clean. Because they first set in living room. This is simple and superficial meaning of the first two lines while second meaning is philosophical. Poet suggest the reader that living room means mind. It is necessary to keep your mind clean because for getting new knowledge to erase or making healthy our mind without hate and envy. Poet always attached with Indian identity so he suggested don't forget your identity.
II
Watch your step. Sight may strike you
blind in unexpected places.
The traffic light turns orange
on 57th and Dorchester, and you stumble,
you fall into a vision of forest fires,
enter a frothing Himalayan river,
rapid, silent.
On the 14th floor,
Lake Michigan crawls and crawls
in the window. Your thumbnail
cracks a lobster louse on the windowpane
from your daughter's hair
and you drown, eyes open,
towards the Indies, the antipodes.
And you, always so perfectly sane.
III
Now you know what you always knew:
the country cannot be reached
by jet. Nor by boat on jungle river,
hashish behind the Monkey-temple,
nor moonshot to the cratered Sea
of Tranquillity, slim circus girls
on a tightrope between tree and tree
with white parasols, or the one
and only blue guitar.
Nor by any
other means of transport,
migrating with a clean valid passport,
no, not even by transmigrating
without any passport at all,
but only by answering ordinary
black telephones, questions
walls and small children ask,
and answering all calls of nature.
IV
Watch your step, watch it, I say,
especially at the first high
threshold,
and the sudden low
one near the end
of the flight
of stairs,
and watch
for the last
step that's never there.
In short this poem is about his philosophical experience of life, according to him in all condition like goes on and one life never stops for anyone every movement new and strict less all this idea about life is taken from Zen Buddhist philosophy of life Zen Buddhist believe that-
Life is a continuous process thus Ramanujan talk about so many things to gather in his poem Chicago Zen. It is best example of Zen Buddhist philosophy of life.
Hello Readers,
Here I share most famous Indian poet Ramanujan's famous poem and his philosophical ideas behind his poem.
A.K.Ramanujan
Attipat Krishna Swami Ramanujan as also known as A.K.Ramanujan was as Indian poet and scholar of an Indian literature who is white in English and Kandda. Ramanujan was a poet, scholar, philosopher, translator and play writer. His academic research ranged in five language English, Kandda, Tamil, Telugu and Sanskrit. He published work both classical and modern.
His famous poem –
👉A River
👉The elements of Composition
👉 Astronomer
👉Obituary
👉 Chicago Zen
👉Prayer to Lord Morgan
I like Chicago Zen poem. Ramanujan was modern poet this is example of his poem Chicago Zen poem. In this poem he described about transculture effect in the society. This poem is also best examples of hybridity, transculturalism and transnationalism. Maybe this poem poet express personal experience and feeling when he was in abroad in Chicago USA. Poem starting-
I
Now tidy your house,
dust especially your living room
and do not forget to name
all your children.
The above line has to different meanings. The first meaning is very simple, it is said that it is necessary to keep house clean where we like. It is even more necessary to keep the living room clean. Because they first set in living room. This is simple and superficial meaning of the first two lines while second meaning is philosophical. Poet suggest the reader that living room means mind. It is necessary to keep your mind clean because for getting new knowledge to erase or making healthy our mind without hate and envy. Poet always attached with Indian identity so he suggested don't forget your identity.
II
Watch your step. Sight may strike you
blind in unexpected places.
The traffic light turns orange
on 57th and Dorchester, and you stumble,
you fall into a vision of forest fires,
enter a frothing Himalayan river,
rapid, silent.
On the 14th floor,
Lake Michigan crawls and crawls
in the window. Your thumbnail
cracks a lobster louse on the windowpane
from your daughter's hair
and you drown, eyes open,
towards the Indies, the antipodes.
And you, always so perfectly sane.
III
Now you know what you always knew:
the country cannot be reached
by jet. Nor by boat on jungle river,
hashish behind the Monkey-temple,
nor moonshot to the cratered Sea
of Tranquillity, slim circus girls
on a tightrope between tree and tree
with white parasols, or the one
and only blue guitar.
Nor by any
other means of transport,
migrating with a clean valid passport,
no, not even by transmigrating
without any passport at all,
but only by answering ordinary
black telephones, questions
walls and small children ask,
and answering all calls of nature.
IV
Watch your step, watch it, I say,
especially at the first high
threshold,
and the sudden low
one near the end
of the flight
of stairs,
and watch
for the last
step that's never there.
In short this poem is about his philosophical experience of life, according to him in all condition like goes on and one life never stops for anyone every movement new and strict less all this idea about life is taken from Zen Buddhist philosophy of life Zen Buddhist believe that-
Life is a continuous process thus Ramanujan talk about so many things to gather in his poem Chicago Zen. It is best example of Zen Buddhist philosophy of life.
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