Thursday 1 July 2010

Do you think the poem "Our Casuarina Tree" has autobiographical overtones?

Yes, the
poem definitely has autobiographical overtones. Dutt uses the first two stanzas to describe the
casuarina tree, then spends the rest of the poem discussing how the tree evokes or brings back
memories of her youth.

In the third stanza, she describes how looking at the
tree returns her to the childhood companions of her youth, who are "loved with love
intense." As she watches...



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