"The Peacock", written by "Sujata Bhatt", describes the beauty and grace of the bird on its grandeur. The bird is India's national bird and the poet chooses this bird to spread positivity in everyone. The eluding nature and beauty describe that the poet is a worshiper of the beauty of India.
The poet represents her love and respect for the country with the help of expressions and symbols in the poem. The poet describes the bird as a male in her poem because of his louder and sharper voice. The voice of the bird is as loud as one can listen far away from the bird. The appearance and his style of climbing down with the help of his head are similar to the qualities of a man according to the poet.
The poem also represents the beauty of the motherland the poet describes using few symbols. The word "turquoise" is used as a metaphor to represent those three sides of the water and a one-sided mountain cover “India”. The sounds of the bird represent the grief and sorrow of the people at the time of the pre-independence situation. The poet wants to spreads the messages of positivity and victory over all melancholy and failures.
The poet starts the poem with a line that describes the sharpness and loudness in the voice of the Peacock. The bluish-green colour in the bird’s body looks like turquoise flesh in the eyes of the poet. The bluish shadow and changing direction of winds are indicated the vicinity of the bird. The poet tells that the cat also awakens and stretches with the beautiful appearance of the bird at the time he gathers his tells. The poet describes that it is impossible to avoid the bluish beauty of the bird. All of the descriptions of the bird indicate the vicinity of the bird.
The poem captures many colours of the Peacock by using many expressions in the poem. Some words like, turquoise which means the colour of the bird's body and the bluish shadow that symbolised the appearance of the bird is described in the poem as full of colours. Other words from the poem like, violet fringed, golden amber are proof of using various colours.
The Peacock is a symbol of pride because of his grace and beauty. The bird is beautiful because of its colourful tails, which look like lots of blinking eyes are gathered together. The literature is always the worshiper of beauty and the bird sets perfectly this criterion. The sharpness of voice, the dark deep eyes and the bluish-green colour of the body of the Peacock are perfect qualities for utilising in the literature.
The poet personified the Peacock when the poet Sujata Bhatt describes his beauty. The poet begins the poem with the word, his which means the Peacock. The royalness and external beauty of the Peacock beautifully describe in the poem. The sounds of echo of the Peacock create an enigmatic aspect from anywhere. The bird looks bluish green or in the poet's language turquoise from the pipal tree.
In the lines where the bird's colourful images are fully visible like in the third line of the first stanza, the poet describes the bird as a flash of turquoise and that description helps to visualise a colourful image of the bird. In the next line, the poet uses words like slender neck which means the poet wants to describe the bird's slimness and grace in his body. The poet describes the bird as a shadow that is fully blue and his eyes are dark but glowing with golden amber.
The poet wants to tail that the pattern of telling of the bird looks like eyes. The art of the tails looks like eyes. The millions of eyes of the tail are unable to blink. The tales are made illusions for common people and one who is mesmerized by the beauty of the bird can easily feel the millions of eyes blinking together. The eyes of the bird are unable to blink because the eyes are made with plumage patterns. The bird can blink with the help of his tells because at the time of gathering tails it looks like blinking. The bird cannot blink with his eyes but he can blink beautifully with the help of his tails.
The poet describes all activities and the indication of presence very beautifully throughout the poem. The start of the poem the poet describes the sharp voice of the bird. The poet indicated the sharpness and loudness of the voice that can able to hear from anywhere. The sharpness in the voice of the bird indicated the unique and exclusive nature of the bird. The bird gathered his tails for turning back and it is a unique thing noticed by the poet. The bird gathers his tail like a feather and makes a beautiful moment for everyone. The glimpse that present in the end position of his tails and all are the exclusive natures are captured in the poem.
The peacock is the national bird of India and it symbolised the pride of India. The Peacock is chosen for various reasons like the colour of the bird carrying positivity with itself. The description of the nature of the bird symbolized self-confidence and esteem that should not go down. The bird carries positive nature with itself and spread the message of acceptance of all bad things positively.
Q1. What is the main theme of the poem?
Ans. The poem has mainly focused on the grace and beauty of the Peacock. The poet wants to express her love and respect for her own motherland with the help of the poem.
Q2. Which Stanza describes the Peacock’s beauty?
Ans. The poet starts the poem by praising the beauty of the Peacock. The poet describes the bird’s beauty in the first stanza as well as in the last stanza.
Q3. What message does the poem The Peacock deliver?
Ans. Sujata Bhatt’s poem The Peacock outlines the glorious beauty of the national bird of India, Peacock. The poem delivers the message of the grandeur of beauty and diversity found in the nation and how it represents the rich culture of the country on a broader scale.
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