"The Poetry of Gopal Parajuli"


Poet Gopal Parajuli, like the English romantic poet T S Eliot, the role and importance of imagination in creative writing. It is said about TS Eliot appear to something unfamiliar as familiar with the shaping power of his imagination. In the poem Gopal Parajuli does more than raise a voice of peace. Parajuli chose the poems as an appropriate vehicle or
medium for the __expression of his thoughts, feelings and personal observations on human situations, norms of human behaviour. Within Gopal Parajuli’s writing is seen as a given within nature, and affirmed in human creation and in peace.

Despite my appeal
Or Banira’s
To save the country
Although you place your palm
On the rhododendron leaf
Although I keep on stying
Without lifting my palm
Placed on it
If you like to see Mount Everest
That pasang climbed
Where it is
If you want to congratulate
My sons and daughters

Parajuli sees the first of the souls in symbolic retribution. Parajuli’s poem deals with the future because Parajuli believed his faith gave him access to nation’s intention. It is is time that poem can be called nationalism. It is this inclusiveness that moved TS Eliot to write " Shakespeare divide the world between them, there is no third" For Parajuli is a man of intellect, and intellect has itself to faith. 

From here
From there
From that side as well
Do not fence in the country with bullets
If you can not stand
In this country
To welcome those
That are waiting in their mother’s wombs
To be born

I speak
Pointing at Mount Everest
With pride
And challenged that
The gun that you have carried
Is an illusion

Parajuli is not difficult to read. It is true that he writes in depth and on many simultaneous levels. It is the poem itself that teaches the reader how it is to be read. His poem does so in an inexhaustible invitation to poetic pleasure.

No one can flying pasang
Climbing Mount Everest
No one can vanquish Banira
Composing poems
No one can demolish
Mount Evrest itself

Most of the Parajuli stand at the edge of the swamp. Parajuli’s all poems are so beautiful and interesting to read. With his moral obligations Parajuli’s aim in all things is to achieve that perfect proportion in all good works.

If you are looking in the Koshi
Enjoying the game
And if you are watching at the spectacles
Of redness in the Gandaki
The game whoever must have taught you
Is an illusion
At this moment I need the thododendron flower
If you also need one
The country you are standing on
Is trying to be free
At this moment
I give you Buddha and Pasang
I give you Banira's pen and my poems

Gopal Parajuli, who, like the well-known English critic F. R. Leavis, distinguishes the elites from the masses, is a champion of intellectual aristocracy. In Gopal Parajuli’s opinion, he write with ease and felicity of __expression about various subjects and issues that are at once profoundly philosophical and realities of life.


I give you
The palms
That my children have folded
To pray you
And the smiles collected
To offer you
Once more
I tell you
Trusting you
Looking at the sky of Lumbini
If the history of Buddha is yours
Emancipate the rhodndendron tree
At this moment
I request help from God too
I seek help from you too.

In a world where peace mattered, where symbol embodied living force, the writing of Gopal Parajuli would be recognized for its sustaining power, for its capacity to project enduring sources of creativity into a mode of awareness. It may be reasonable to expect that Parajuli's poems will open up a way for the future. It gives its readers insights on the western and eastern philosophical traditions. Finally, this is a remarkable contribution to the Nepali literature. There is always a sense of optimism at work that makes the poems a wonderful reading.

Kamala Sarup
Arlington, Virginia, USA

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