Poetry
आमाको सपना
Not translated into English
Gopal Prasad Rimal · 1962
Synopsis
The poem that gives the collection its title is a dialogue between a child and its mother. The child asks whether the one who is awaited will come. The mother answers that he will come like the morning sun that drives away the darkness, a sword as silvery as dew at his belt, more real than snow or fire, and that he will fight evil. To the child's questions, she repeats her answer and lets show what she hopes of him, according to two English translations of the poem.
Context
The collection, published by Sajha Prakashan, gathers poems many of which are linked to the revolution of 1951, according to an article in Onlinekhabar. Its author writes in it a poetry close to prose rather than in the metres inherited from Sanskrit: Michael Hutt sees in him the first to have rejected metre, and a thesis from Tribhuvan University counts him among those who moved the country's poetry to the style of prose. The title poem was translated into English in an anthology of the Royal Nepal Academy published in 1972, then by Mahesh Paudyal.
Who it is for
Short poems in Nepali. The collection exists neither in French nor in English; only the title poem can be read in English, in an anthology.
Prizes and reception
Madan Prize in 1962. The title poem is among the most popular in Nepal.
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