Summary of A River The poem “A River” brings out a bizarre picture of a river Vaigai which flows through the city Madurai. Once, Madurai was a holy city and a religious centre. We know that even today, Madurai is a place famous for its temples and is an important Read more…
The poem ‘A River’ by Ramanujan is one of his finest poems taken from his magnum opus, The Striders (1965).In this poem, the poet has compared and contrasted the attitudes of the old poets and those of the modern poets towards human misery. He concluded that the two classes of poets are oblivious to human pain and sorrow. Their poetry does not reflect the miseries of human beings. In the present poem, he has proven this argument.
