A journey of self into self: KV Raghupathi’s Wisdom of the Peepal Tree

Abstract

c and created their own style in presenting their invaluable experiences to the contemporary world, and have emerged powerfully evocative by rendering such experiences as crispy, epigrammatic and enigmatic. A few poets have tried to contemplate on the self, and have been using poetry as a strong vehicle to unleash the mysteries of life. Raghupathi is no exception in this genre. He has penned a long poem using the Peepal Tree as a symbol to represent his inner experiences and take a reader to plunge deeply in his/her self to ponder on the self itself to understand its mysteries and paradoxes. This paper explores such a journey of the self as presented by the poet in the long poem, Wisdom of the Peepal Tree.