The Impact of Memory and Sentimental Feelings in Toru Dutt’s “Our Casuarina Tree”

Abstract

Toru Dutt is an indian english poet and translator from British India. Her full name was Tarulatta Satta. She was born on March 4th, 1856 in Calcutta. She is regarded as one of the founding figures of Indo-anglian literature. Her poem Our Casuarina Tree is regarded as one of her best works. This paper describes Tori Dutt's memories and feelings connected with a Casuarina tree from her childhood home. The poems reveals about eternal friendships and vanished childhood. It  is a physical thing and a psychosomatic individual of the poet's mind. Toru Dutt has conveyed the ideas of natural history as great that contribute to feelings with creature. She rejoices her evocative remembrance of childhood in India with her beautiful siblings. The tree appears to represent the authenticity, the influence and the unending value of her memories. The tree, which once stood proud and enthusiastic, it is at present devoid of life, with only its strong trunk enduring.