Kasiprasad Gose To a Young Hindu Widow | A Critical Analysis

Kasiprasad Gose To a Young Hindu Widow | A Critical Analysis

Kasiprasad Gose To a Young Hindu Widow

Kasiprasad Gose To a Young Hindu Widow | A Critical Analysis

‘To a Young Hindu Widow’ is realistic social poetry in which the poet, addressing a Hindu widow, portrays the sorrow and sufferance suffered by a woman after her husband’s death. It is elegiac in mood and tone. In Hindu society, There was a social custom that if the husband of a woman died, she could not get into a second marriage. She had either to jump to the burning pyre o die along with her dead husband or if she did not do so, she would live a life of extreme austerity throwing away all the comforts and happiness of life. Later on, in the fourth decade of the ninetieth century, Lord William Benting the Governor-General of British-Indian made a law against that age-long tradition and banned it. Yet today this custom is seen to be practised, though not often, in some Hindu societies. This poetry was written before William Bentinck banned the custom.

The poet, addressing a young Hindu widow, says that when her husband died all her charms and joys died with her husband. Her beauty was in vain and then she became lonely as a desert flower. As there was none to enjoy a flower bloomed in the desert so was her life. The poet says that the moment was fatal when the husband of a woman died because it brought in everlasting grief and pain to the widow. After her husband’s death, the whole world and every path of her life became forlorn and desolate. She had been bereft of all the comfort and enjoyment of life and her life became full of severity. After being a widow, she became helpless, friendless and poor of all things. Then she should lead such a life as if she was not a being of this world. None became friendly with the widow. It is the pitiless humanity that had bestowed such a life of sufferance upon her. Wherever she went she met only negligence and shame, she had, in reality, no entity in society except only her room. She had to accept only sorrows that would end in death only. In short, a widow was bereft of all the pleasure and enjoyment of life and she had to quell her thirst for life within herself.

The narration and theme of the poem are very pathetic and the poet has succeeded in portraying the sorrows and sufferance of a widow very well in easy and simple language.

This poem is a social criticism also. The poet criticizes society saying—

”Has pitiless humanity

Forgot its so sacred ties and laws?”

To conclude, it is to say that this poem is a social poem with Indian sensibilities. 0 0 0

Kasiprasad Gose To a Young Hindu Widow

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N. B. This article entitled ‘Kasiprasad Gose’s Poem ‘To a Young Hindu Widow’ -A Critical Analysis’ originally belongs to the book ‘Indian English Poetry Criticism‘ by Menonim Menonimus.  To a Young Hindu WidowKasiprasad Gose To a Young Hindu Widow

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