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Keyed : Poetry collection of Dandriyal about Women’s emotions and Spirituality
Review by Bhishma Kukreti
Offering tribute to one of the greatest poets of world literature Kanhaya Lal Dandriyal in special issue of Hamari Chitthi, Bhishma Kukreti wrote that Dandriyal has been a ‘ardhnareshwar’ (Half man -Half woman) while writing poetry as his emotional description about women is totally from a heart of a woman. Reading Kukreti’s comments Hindi literature critic Dr. Manjula D Dhoundiyal agreed that the poems related to women’s subject of ‘Maha Kavi’ Knhaya Lal Dandriyal are feminist in nature and paved the way of feminst movement in Garhwali literature. After reading the women related poems of ‘KUYEDI ‘ (The Fog), it is easily could be said that from women related poems of Dandriyal suggest that Kanhya Lal Dandriyal ia afeminist Garhwali poet to as Maya Angelou ,Elvia Ardalani ,Margaret Atwood Anne Waldman ,Alice Walker ,Phyllis Webb , Djuna Barnes , Elinor Wylie , Aphra Behn, Elizabeth Bishop ,Eavan Boland ,Sophia Elisabet Brenner ,Karen Brodine ,Olga Broumas ,Lucille Clifton ,Mary Collier ,Hilda Doolittle, Emily Dickinson ,Diane Di Prima ,Carol-Ann Duffy ,Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Fehmida Riaz ,Judith Wright , Kishwar Naheed ,Alice Fulton ,Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Judy Grahn, Barbara Guest, Marilyn Hacker ,Allison Hedge Coke ,Lyn Hejinian , Sophie Hannah, Melin W., Susan Howe Merle Woo ,Parveen Shakir ,Sue Lenier,Anna Maria Lenngren ,Denise Levertov ,Audre Lorde ,Mina Loy May Swenson, , Mitsuye Yamada , Chris Mansell , Rita Mae Brown, Gwendolyn Brooks, Elizabeth Barrett Browning , Charlotte Perkins ,Gilman Diane , Wakoshi Anne *ton , M.C.Gupta, Rabindra Nath Taigore, Edna St Vincent Millay , Robin Morgan ,Marianne Moore ,Lorine Niedecker , Nellie Wong Hedvig Charlotta ,Nordenflycht ,Alicia Ostriker ,Sylvia Pankhurst ,Grace Paley ,Dorothy Parker ,Katha Pollitt ,Adrienne Rich ,Dorothy Richardson ,Ethel Rolt-Wheeler ,Christina Rossetti ,Muriel Rukeyser ,Sonia Sanchez ,Sappho ,Jo Shapcott ,Edith Sitwell ,Stevie Smith ,Gertrude Stein , , Sara Teasdale ,Marina Tsvetaeva ,Rosmarie Waldrop , Maya Angelou are famous feminst poets for their voicing the significance of women in every part of life and narrating women’s empowerment through poetries.
There are two distinctive types of poems in Keyed (The Fog) - the women related poems and spiritual or philosophical poems. Kanhya Lal Dandriyal has been successful in communication both types of emotions to the readers. These poems were created around sixties by Dandriyal but could publish in 1990. However, the poems are as fresh and relevant as they were in 1953 when the poet created them,
The poems related to women are created by a man but when the readers read them , the readers feel that a woman has written those poems which , are powerful to show the struggle of females in rural or other parts of India , the sacrifices of women for the society and family, the various pains of Garhwali women in Garhwal and elsewhere. Apart from narrating women’s life, Dandriyal narrates the images of life of Garhwalis and geographical aspect specially rainy season of Garhwal.
The poet is on his peak for describing the pain of separation . His way of narration is very simple and he communicates with his readers easily. The symbols , images, figures of speeches, proverbs, wordings of all poems are commonly used by Garhwalis .
The spiritual poems in this volume, are marvelous pieces of poetry for Garhwali literature. The poet uses simple language that the readers easily understand the seious subject of philosophies and that makes Dandriyal the great poet of world literature.
This poetry collection is one of the significant collection that the poems show us the realism of fifties of Garhwal and life sketches of Garhwalis .Kuyedi is perceived as confusing and frightening situation in huma’s life. Many poems show us Garhwalis standing on the crossroads of confusion and myopic situation.
Keyed (The Fog)
By Kanhya Lal Dandriyal
Year of publication :1990
Arunoday prakashan Delhi 91
Copyright @ Bhishma Kukreti, Mumbai, India, 2010