Analysis Of The Scholar's Room By Bina Sarkar Ellias

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The simplicity of nature has been the inspiration of countless brilliant minds for hundreds of years. Albert Einstein once remarked that one can understand everything better by looking deeper into nature. Infusing descriptions of nature into her work of poetry “FUSE”, Indian poet Bina Sarkar Ellias allows readers to detect an important correlation between her love for writing and her love of nature, weaving both concepts seamlessly in numerous poems. Ellias expertly applies figurative language, particularly imagery, similes, and personification, as well as differing formats in her poems “Such Sweet Comfort” and “The Scholar’s Room”, helping demonstrate her personal connection with nature and writing. The thread of nature’s beauty can be found woven through a large portion of “FUSE”, becoming an extremely large component of the entirety of the work. Principally, “Such Sweet Comfort” tackles the topic of writing, and its effect on the author. Ellias tells this particular poem in a stream of consciousness writing, allowing the free verse to flow straight out of her thoughts. This can potentially be compared to the way thoughts can flow quickly and freely onto a page …show more content…

She is incredibly particular with her formatting and her wording, a stark contrast from “Such Sweet Comfort”, whose words are seemingly unrestricted and free. The poem is filled with imagery, as this unknown scholar man begins the process of writing, “teeming with/thoughts/in ferment” (Ellias 96). The imagery continues further on as the writer continues to spin his story. The reader is given details of the surrounding environment filled with life, as the “fish in the/green pond/swam oblivious/to the hum” (Ellias 96). As life continues unknowingly, another life is beginning to form in the author’s head. This is a new type of creation: a creation of

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