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Critical Appreciation of the Poem A River by A.K. Ramanujan

Dr. P Sreenivasulu Reddy and Dr. C.V. Padmaja


A. K. Ramanujan 1929-1993
Courtesy: https://projectindianpoetry.wordpress.com/mip/poets/a-k-ramanujan/

A.K. Ramanujan

Attipat Krishnaswami Ramanujan, popularly known as A.K. Ramanujan, is a great Indian poet, scholar and playwright. He started his career as a lecturer in English in Belgaum and in 1962 he joined the University of Chicago as an Assistant Professor of English. He worked in many US Universities including Harvard University, University of Wisconsin, University of Michigan, University of California at Berkeley, and Carleton College. He died in Chicago, on 13 July 1993 as result of adverse reaction to anesthesia during preparation for surgery. Indian Government honoured him with Padma Shri in 1976 and also the Sahitya Akademi Award posthumously in 1999.

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A River

Ramanujan published two volumes of poems, The Striders and The Relations. The poem “A River” appeared in The Striders in 1966. The poem is about the river Vaikai which flows through the city of Madurai, a city of poets and temples, which has for long been the seat of Tamil Culture. In this poem the poet has compared and contrasted the attitude of the old poets and those of the new poets to human indifference. Ramanujan feels that both the groups of the poets are indifferent to human sorrow and suffering and their poetry does not assess the miseries of the fellow living beings.

The poets have composed many songs and poems in praise of the River Vaikai which flows through Madurai. Ramanujan says that the river had enough water to attract the poets only once in a year when it flooded during the rainy season. But, in reality, in the summer the river is almost dry. Only a small stream of water flows. In other words in every summer the river dries to a trickle. Then one can see the sand ribs on both the sides of the water. One can also see straw and women’s hair clogging the water gates.

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