The Transience of Human life and the eternity of rituals: Mamang Dai's Small Towns and the River
Perishability, boredom, inertia, folk culture, rituals and traditions, myths.
One of the strongest voices from the North-east Mamang Dai is a famous poet and novelist from Adi Tribal Community representing the indigenous, disappearing culture and customs. Dai’s poetry is the poetry of landscape— rivers, mountains, the flash of summer, starry skies, and incessant rain form central motifs in almost all her poems. Nature here is mysterious, verdant with myth and dense with sacred memory. Amidst the delightful portrayal of beautiful landscape with facile, fluid lyricism, the poetess upholds the theme of human mortality, temporary and ephemeral nature of human life, the continuous cycle of life and death and contrasts it with the permanence of ‘Nature’. The strength of the poetry is its unforced clarity, its ability to steer calm of easy flamboyance. In her poem “Small Towns and The River”, (River Poems, 2004) Padmashri Mamang Dai—a true born literary artist of Arunachal Pradesh, voice of modern women writers of Indian writing English contrasts the Perishability of human life with the Permanence of rituals and Nature.
"The Transience of Human life and the eternity of rituals: Mamang Dai's Small Towns and the River", IJSDR - International Journal of Scientific Development and Research (www.IJSDR.org), ISSN:2455-2631, Vol.8, Issue 3, page no.534 - 535, March-2023, Available :https://ijsdr.org/papers/IJSDR2303083.pdf
Volume 8
Issue 3,
March-2023
Pages : 534 - 535
Paper Reg. ID: IJSDR_204433
Published Paper Id: IJSDR2303083
Downloads: 000347922
Research Area: Arts
Country: BERHAMPORE, West Bengal, India
ISSN: 2455-2631 | IMPACT FACTOR: 9.15 Calculated By Google Scholar | ESTD YEAR: 2016
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