The Wind Knocks at My Door and Other Poems

The theme of Rupesh’s poetry is divinity, love, patriotism, and intense emotions for the beloved, which manifests itself in various symbols of nature especially flowers. The Godhead is sought in various ways; eternity is a dream which the poet wants to capture by the wings of poetry. The poems are lyrical and musical. Versification and diction are lucid and succinct to comprehend. The Wind Knocks at My Door & Other Poems reveals the emotional intensity of the poet; he is searching the beloved, divine and mortal everywhere. His restless pining and quest in “ She Walks in Beauty”, “The Way I Love You”, “The Angel” and “At My Open Casements” make him wander among the mountains, stars, rivers, valleys, meadows and flowers filled fields, down the labyrinths pains of his own anguish filled heart and soul. The agony of rejection seems to shadow the scene of love and quest. The quest remains a quest and the poet is in despair, the lover is longing eternaly… Prof. I.B.Das Department of English & Modern European Languages, University of Allahabad