The Poetry of Armando Menezes-Chief Features
The Poetry of Armando Menezes-Chief Features
The Poetry of Armando Menezes– Chief Features
Armando Menezes (1902-?) was a minor Indian poet who wrote in English. He was a poet who is hard to include in any distinctive group or school of poets or poetry because he wrote poems on trifling. The opening of his poems seems to be a child’s frolic; but some of his poems though begin in trifling, end in wisdom. Hence his poems may be called philosophical. Like a philosopher and a mystic, he wants to appreciate the greatness of God through the study of Nature and her objects including human beings.Â
The poem ‘Play’ is a poem that deals with the sports of a boy with a painted toy. A boy likes a toy, but he does not know why he likes it. A mother loves her baby. A husband loves her wife. So it seems that the sun plays with the cloud and the moonlight plays with water. Thus everybody and everything plays with one another and rejoices. From this trifling, the poet arrives at a philosophic conclusion that one who knows God or appreciates the greatness of God can rejoice like a baby who plays with a toy and feels joy. The poet says:
”And who knows the vast Divine
Bumps this world with shade and shine,
Romps with mortal grief and joy
As you, Baby, with your toy?”
‘To-night’ is a purely philosophical poem through which he expresses his philosophy of life and of Earth. The poet thinks that the world is a valley of grief and that human life in it is full of pain. There is a pleasure also but the pleasure is brief. The eternal pleasure lies on God and one who can love God can be the heir of Immortality. The poet says:
”Let the world be: I made it not, nor marred
And he who made it so, perhaps is just.
To-night I question not life’s mystery…
But bring the warm breast closer, kiss me hard,
And let me once forget that man is dust:
To-night I’m heir of immortality.”Â
Armando Menezes had the intellect to philosophize everything and every trifling. ‘The Train’ is such a poem. In it, he personifies the vehicles ‘Train’ and says about how it goes. He thinks the train has the sense to feel. The poet says:
”A little pause, and off I go…
My simple art
Touches to music with my bow
Earth’s silent heart.”
The poem ‘Chairs’ is another such piece of poetry in which he distinguishes the mentality of a child from a grown-up man. The poet says:
”To you a car is a moving chair:
To them a chair a rocket.
The wealth you hoard from life to life
They pull out from their pocket.”
To say about Menezes’ poetic style is that he is lyrical and simple in language and in him there is less and less linguistic ornament. 0 0 0
The Poetry of Armando Menezes-Chief Features
N.B. Â The article ‘The Poetry of Armando Menezes– Chief Features’ originally belongs to the book ‘Indian English Poets and Poetry-Chief Features‘ by Menonim Menonimus.
The Poetry of Armando Menezes-Chief Features
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