|
Calcutta If You Must Exile Me is the best known single poems of the renowned Indian English poet and media personality Pritish Nandy. The poem is widely anthologised in major Indian English poetry collections and is regarded as a pioneering classic in modern Indian English writing.〔by Ashley E Myles.〕 The poem is remarkable for its breathless tempo, vivid imagery and unsuppressed angst at societal decadence. The poem is addressed to the Indian city of Kolkata, although not in eulogical terms. ==Excerpts from the poem== :Calcutta if you must exile me wound my lips before I go :only words remain and the gentle touch of your fingers on my :lips Calcutta burn my eyes before I go into the night :the headless corpse in a Dhakuria bylane the battered youth his brains :blown out and the silent vigil that takes you to Pataldanga lane :where they will gun you down without vengeance or hate ::: * * * * * * * :I will show you the fatigue of that woman who died near Chitpur out :of sheer boredom and the cages of Burrabazar where passion hides :the wrinkle of virgins who have aged waiting :for a sexless war that never came :only obscene lust remains in their eyes after time has wintered their exacting thighs :and I will show you the hawker who died with Calcutta in his eyes :Calcutta if you must exile me destroy my sanity before I go ::: * * * * * * * 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Calcutta If You Must Exile Me」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
|