Prescribed poetry texts
Prescribed poetry texts
This domain asks for four operations on a prescribed verse: identify poet and form, name the rasa, identify an alankara, and give bhavartha. The exam tests analysis, not paraphrase.
Core
- Form: pada (song), doha or sortha (couplet), savaiya or kavitta (stanza). Match metre and refrain.
- Rasa: shringara (union or separation), veer, karuna, vatsalya, adbhuta, hasya, raudra, bhayanaka and bibhatsa. Name the dominant rasa, not every possible one.
- Alankara: upama (simile), rupaka (metaphor), anuprasa (alliteration), utpreksha (fanciful fancy) and atishayokti (hyperbole).
- Bhavartha: state the emotional argument in one sentence, then support it with an image.
Worked example
Illustrative line: 'सावन घन घहरायो, पिया बिना मन डोलै।' Reasoning: monsoon plus absent lover gives vipralambha shringara; 'घन घहरायो' has anuprasa; the cloud is a sign of longing, so bhavartha is separation intensified by the rainy season. Answer: pada, shringara (vipralambha), anuprasa.
Traps
- Naming an alankara without showing the words that create it.
- Mixing shringara with karuna; separation in love is still shringara.
- Giving a literal translation as bhavartha.