{"id":19763,"date":"2022-09-02T12:32:43","date_gmt":"2022-09-02T07:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper?p=19763"},"modified":"2022-09-02T12:32:43","modified_gmt":"2022-09-02T07:02:43","slug":"another-summer-afternoon-a-poem-to-remember-mobile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/2022\/09\/02\/another-summer-afternoon-a-poem-to-remember-mobile\/","title":{"rendered":"ANOTHER SUMMER AFTERNOON\u2019:<br>  A POEM TO REMEMBER"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-align:left\"><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Siddhartha Tripathy<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p>In the service of poetry, some draw upon their unique and rich life experiences, some employ their vivid and fertile imagination, and some exploit their facility for words and rhyming to great effect. Great poems, not least the highly engaging ones, often have a perfect mix of experience, perception, imagination and craft.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnother Summer Afternoon\u201d, a recently published poem by Bishnupada Sethi, is one such.<\/p>\n<p>Delightfully simple in its structure but deeply profound in its essence, the five-stanza poem takes the reader through a wide gamut of emotions in a rather narrow span of time.<\/p>\n<p>The introductory pair of verses paint a beautifully dreamy picture from the poet\u2019s childhood reminiscence, with natural elements like \u201clines of tall palm trees\u201d and \u201cazure blue sky\u201d backgrounding his unbridled positivity and \u201crestless\u201d anticipation.<\/p>\n<p>The middle stanza evokes a sense of nightmarish horror as a flash of lightning shows the dark side of Mother Nature, \u201cshattering the earth with loud thunder and shock waves\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cfumes billowing\u201d from a tall tree set \u201cablaze\u201d reflect the sense of shock, fear and helplessness that the poet felt as a child in the moments after the event.<\/p>\n<p>The penultimate stanza ushers in the poet\u2019s mother as a protective force with a \u201csoft call\u201d and \u201ckind face\u201d that evinced \u201cno fear, no pain\u201d despite betraying some anxiety. The verse is written so delicately that readers can vicariously experience the author\u2019s emotional shift from sheer fear to pure relief.<\/p>\n<p>The concluding verse makes for the most heart-warming part as the poet and the reader together come to realise \u2013 and appreciate \u2013 the incredible things that mothers unflinchingly do for their children.<\/p>\n<p>The greatness of \u201cAnother Summer Afternoon\u201d perhaps lies in the perspective that it leaves lingering in reader\u2019s mind long after being read.<\/p>\n<p>Also, suffice to say, Sethi \u2013 a 1995-batch IAS officer of Odisha cadre, who is currently serving as Principal Secretary of the state\u2019s higher education department \u2013 has taken his standing as a poet to new heights with his latest work of art.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/IMG-20220831-WA0050.jpg\" alt=\"Girl in a jacket\" width=\"30\" height=\"80\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Siddhartha Tripathy In the service of poetry, some draw upon their unique and rich life experiences, some employ their vivid and fertile imagination, and some exploit their facility for words and rhyming to great effect. Great poems, not least the highly engaging ones, often have a perfect mix of experience, perception, imagination and craft. \u201cAnother [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19809,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19763"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19843,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19763\/revisions\/19843"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}