Review of Swati Singh Sambyal's book of poetry
PAINTED
Published by Cuberwit.Net Allahabad.
Reviewer- K. K. Srivastava
Painted is Swati Singh Sambyal' s first book of verse. It has 43
poems. I had an occasion to go through these pearls encapsulating the elements that make life worth living and worth
examining. I have a fad for serious poetry, for through serious
stream of words one gets to know the interwoven threads of
poetry and philosophy. Sometimes moments of tranquil need be
visited upon with a view to take a lighter view of various aspects
of life. Painted has both elements sewn together. There are
definite questions in this collection that keep resonating; in
search of answers which readers might either seek in the verses
or seek within.
Her poems touch on varied facets of life and necessarily carry
experiences of different hues.
Revelations through these poems reflect on throbbing fullness
that life is but that fullness has it’s own scheme of dispersal that
is left to every individual to decipher, understand, grapple with
and finally to go with or without these dispersals with subsequent
consequences. Swati, aware of such a scheme of things that
exists in the cosmos and not baffled by conflicts of existence of
an individual, tries through her poems to weave together contradictions and paradoxes contained in such a scheme.
Some of her poems seem to be elliptical memoir poems mixing
pleasure with pain. One of the striking qualities of these poems is
intense imagery. A few examples follow:
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