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How does the poem ‘Heaven, if you are not here on Earth’ visualise heaven? |
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Answer» Kuvempu considers concepts like ‘God’, ‘nymphs’ and ‘heaven’ as myths created by man. He opines that if at all ‘heaven’ exists it exists only on this earth and nowhere else. In order to break the illusion of heaven in man’s mind, he presents before us charming sights of nature and argues that nothing can be more heavenly than these forms of nature. He makes a direct address to nature and declares that if heaven does not exist on the earth where else can it be. He justifies his statement referring to the streams, the waves, and the sunlight. He says that the streams that leap down roaring from the top of the hills, the rolling surf at the edge of the waves, the tender rays of sunlight falling on the green forests, the gentle sun warming the earth all these make the earth heaven. |
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