Henry Derozio Song | Critical Analysis
Henry Derozio Song | Critical Analysis
Henry Derozio Song | Critical Analysis
Henry Derozio’s ‘Song’ is a love poem. He expresses his deep love for his beloved through this poem. His attitude toward love, in this pretty poem, like his other love poems, is romantic. The poet renounces human society and goes to a secluded place down the sea far away from society and there called for his beloved to live there together amid joy and happiness.
The poet addressing his beloved says that he has left human society on behalf of his beloved and has gone far down the sea. The hall that he wishes to live in is made up of pure amber. It is darksome. No starlight shines there to cheer the bosom of the poet. Yet this dark place is dear to him as he wants to live there with his beloved. He evokes his beloved to go to the depth of the sea. He assures her that he will give his beloved the entire valuable treasures of the sea which no other mortal being can have. In this secluded place, there is a grotto. It is mute without his beloved. There he will live with his beloved and sing, and play on the lute to please the ears of his beloved. The songs are full of the joys of love which his beloved once loved to hear.
The subject matter of this song shows that the poet is inclined to a world of nature far away from human society. But in reality, it is impossible to live in such a solitary place. It may be possible only in the imagination. But his love expressed in this poem is deep to the extreme. He is blind to her and to her love, hence this poem is a highly romantic one as he desires to go away from society and wants to live in a world of imagination. Here the influence of the English Romantic poets like Wordsworth, Keats, Shelley and Yeats is visible.
The style of this poem is very simple. The language is easy. It is written in rhymed lines as to be sung in tone with musical instruments. The rhyme scheme of the poem is abcb of four lines.
Both in matter and manner, this poem is a pure romantic lyric. 0 0 0
Henry Derozio Song | Critical Analysis
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N. B. This article entitled ‘Henry Derozio’s ‘Song’ -A Critical Analysis’ originally belongs to the book ‘Indian English Poetry Criticism‘ by Menonim Menonimus. Henry Derozio Song | Critical Analysis
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