Resumo de To Amerope And Other Poems

To Amerope and Other Poems
By
Bertrand Wilson Hatia

For anybody who is interested in Indian English poetry, To Amerope and Other Poems, a maiden poetic work by Bertrand Wilson Hatia, should be making a very interesting read for several reasons.

The poetry contained in it may be the first ever to have crowned its Indianness with its orthodox Christian outlook. It?s unusual to expect from a poet who hails from India, a Hindu nation. It directly affects the versification in such a way that it can not but sound utterly different from the entire Indian poetry in English.

Bertrand closely follows the structure of dreams in constructing his poems! This accounts for its structural distinctiveness. He either deals with his psychological fears or presents poetic rendering of dreams, which is based mainly on the impact he experienced of the dreams he saw, forcing him to search for some deep meaning which might be encoded in them by stretching his imagination. The waywardness involved in dealing with surface realities, and penetrating it at intervals with dreams or with the workings of consciousness on different levels at the same time, is truly amusing.

?To Amerope? shows the imagination haunted by the memories and fear of such occurrences as the 11 September attack on America, secularization of the world that was regarded as Christian once, the attacks which are made on Christianity under various pretexts and using different methods, including the surreptitious ways in which the cults work to distract the attention of the simple away from the Bible, etc. The Ameropian definition of freedom seems to impose a sort of unity on the Ameropian dream. But the whole, which contains so many disparate elements in it, is held together by purely Christian point-of-view. It helps visualize even the end towards which the Ameropian licentiousness is drawing. Its apt directness and simplicity of a letter is quite remarkable. It allows room for some didacticism.

?Dream Sequence? is even more notable for those who are interested in dreams. As the title itself suggests, it is a sequence of poems. Interestingly, different dreams follow the same mood and have the same dark meaning to convey. It recalls to our mind W.B.Yeats?s The Second Coming for its prophetic strain.

?Sleeplessness? is unique in the way it follows the course of the disease to the end. Its treatment of the disease is so strong that one would wonder if it doesn?t interest doctors to make a case study of it.

?Can You Even Hear Who You Can Not See? puts forth the meaning which writing poetry has for the poet. It very effectively shows the difference between God?s creation and man?s by the end result of the latter?s poetic endeavors ? his kind of creation.

?Apprehensions? strikingly elucidates the way our consciousness changes its apprehensions both during the daytime and the nighttime. What?s important is that these apprehensions, though they do lie in a poet?s mind, are grounded yet in reality. This element is strikingly brought out in the poem.

?Bathing Body? is truly freshening both because of the freshness of the subject and its treatment. It does give the feel of coming out of the bathroom at the end of the poem. We really get amused to know how much passes between the time that lapses between getting in and out of the bath room.

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