Kaleidoscopic Study of Life in Symbolic Representation of Savitri by Sri Aurobindo

Abstract

The poetry is the concise and precise literary form. The poetic style is of various styles and of different methodologies. The poet composes humorous, elegiac, epic, folk, religious, and political, romantic, realistic, symbolic poems. The prime nature and objective would ever be to bring forth the views, realism, fervor of happiness, sensation in particular aspect, the revelation truth etc. The paper analyses how to use symbols, how to reflect the specific purposes through symbolic tools and images. The epic poem named “Savitri” is a symbolic poem and the reader may enjoy the various meanings. The poem engulfs the multi meanings viz womanhood, darkness of life, conjugal commitment, the emergence, and evolution of soul, mind and body. The symbol of “Lotus” “Dawn” and Goddess of Death stand for grand purposes and leave the indirect mythical and cosmo realities. The Symbol analysis indicates that in what context the images and symbols are used and how those symbols are employed to refer the sublime and august purpose.

The decoding of the symbols is done and the right content of the context is targeted by the reader. Savitri, Ashwapti and Satyavan all are also supposed to mentioned as imagery and symbol. The patriarchal approach is signified and discovered with the image of God of Death, Yama. The Indian society growth is accessed with assessment of woman freedom, equality and economic strength, power of knowledge. If single society is centered and focused to make the opportunities available for male, and the narrowness of thought always ceases society from ample growth. Savitri, the epic poem has been the reflection of the worth of wisdom of woman and the abundant bundle of the power hidden in the female. The symbolic representation of woman with the spiritual and mythical word Savitri is enough to lend the message through that underestimation of woman empowerment is the obliviousness of the male dominated society. The paper analyses the patriarchal approach in a character named Yama. Word Yama is the symbol of Patriarchy. The quality of womanhood is the sign Indian tradition and culture and it carries the spiritual significance. The proof of remarkable womanhood is found in epics like The Ramayana, The Mahabharata, The Shiv Purana and The Vishnu Purana. The same has been depicted with help of the goddess Savitri.