{"id":113,"date":"2020-04-18T09:46:08","date_gmt":"2020-04-18T09:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/texpertssolutions.com\/notes\/?p=113"},"modified":"2025-05-23T09:54:32","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T04:24:32","slug":"a-notes-on-returning-by-ak-ramanujan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/texpertssolutions.com\/notes\/2020\/04\/18\/a-notes-on-returning-by-ak-ramanujan\/","title":{"rendered":"A Notes on &#8216;Returning&#8217; by AK Ramanujan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">\u2018Returning\u2019 is a poem written by A.K.Ramanujan- an outstanding Indo-<br>Anglian poet. He was a folklorist, literary critic, translator, and a cultural<br>historian. In this poem, like his poetry, he displays a mastery of diction as well<br>as craftsmanship. His depiction of human sentiments, feelings and emotions<br>in a direct way without any sophistication are here in this poem. His stress on<br>the web of family life and the integration of the individual which remains the<br>prominent characteristic of his poetry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"A Lecture on AK Ramanujan&#039;s Poem Returning | BSc 1st Sem | English Language |\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_h1dkzVJJPM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br>The poem-Returning presents the pathos of the poet\u2019s returning home<br>after several years to his home and calling out desperately for his mother who<br>has ceased to live for forty years but his memories are so strong in him that<br>he forgets the fact that now the home is not the same any more. His mother<br>has ceased to be there for fort years but his memories get tangled with the<br>present and he almost feels like the schoolboy of the once upon a time who<br>was coming home to have food served by his mother. The haunting memories<br>are giving a lot pain, sorrow and sadness to the poet in this poem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>The image of the \u2018blazing afternoon\u2019 when he came to home and to<br>search her mother in kitchen in backyard and everywhere ,tells us the strong<br>emotions towards his mother which have been lost for forty years. The poet\u2019s<br>manner of looking for his mother creates a kind of pathos in the minds of a<br>reader. Finally he becomes desperate because he searched his mother under<br>the beds where he finds only old shoes and dust balls not his mother then he<br>comes out of the house crying Amma..Mother\u2026here the poet gives us the<br>picture of motherless child who is crying for his lost mother for forty years.<br>Here the mother is symbolically presets the mother India. He is far away from<br>India for forty years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>The most of his poems have been written in America where has stayed<br>for forty years. Memory is real in the poem-Retuning,but the same memory is<br>a means of exploring of his self in this poem. Ramanujan has turned most of<br>his autobiographical elements into a vivid creative art. . While exploring many<br>facets of love in his poems he tries to establish his concept of man-woman<br>relationships.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>A famous critic Bergson says, &#8220;Memory is there, which conveys<br>something of the past into the present&#8221;. It means the memory and Reality<br>stand in opposite direction like the past and the Present. whenever<br>Ramanujan talks of mother, even in his other poems, he means her and no<br>other ends. The loving image of his mother, who at times rises to a universal in the poem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"A Lecture on AK Ramanujan&#039;s Poem Returning | BSc 1st Sem | English Language |\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_h1dkzVJJPM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p> Family is a sustained symbol in his creative<br>consciousness in this poem.. Family and relations are two motifs like two<br>chips in Ramanujan&#8217;s artistical poetic kaleidoscope.<br>To conclude, through his memories, A.K.Ramanujan finally comes to his<br>mother or mother India and her culture. This is a kind of \u2018returning\u2019. \u2018the home<br>coming\u2019 of the poet who stand between the past \u2013memories and the present-<br>reality. In the last stanza of the poem his helplessness which is created by his<br>past slowly disappears because the reality \u2013the presentness which makes<br>him realize himself that he was sixty one now, not a child anymore. The<br>nostalgia of the poet is very strong here.the poem is symbolically presents the<br>poet\u2019s attempts of The east-west encountering and attemps of the memories<br>and realities encountering and finally the returning for union with mother-<br>India or indianess.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaAvyPv23n3XL8kpGZ2d\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"341\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/texpertssolutions.com\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/3-1.png?resize=1024%2C341&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2129\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/texpertssolutions.com\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/3-1.png?resize=1024%2C341&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/texpertssolutions.com\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/3-1.png?resize=300%2C100&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/texpertssolutions.com\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/3-1.png?resize=768%2C256&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/texpertssolutions.com\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/3-1.png?w=1200&amp;ssl=1 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Returning\u2019 is a poem written by A.K.Ramanujan- an outstanding Indo-Anglian poet. 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