Derozio's Ideas

History of human thought And its development, How to charter the course? Derozio Was he a patriot, A nationalist Or a free thinker? Was he a romantic Or a social reformer, Who was he Derozio, An educationist? Poetry to Derozio cme to As the wisps and whiffs Of romanticism And he drank deep At the fountain of free thinking And liberty, Drawing and deriving from The French Revolution. Derozio a poet He was Byronic, Campbellian, Scottian. A Eurasian, Derozio was A critic of society, A radical reformer. The Ganges by Bhagalpore Charmed him And he thought of The Fakeer of Jungheera. Derozio as a poet derived Much from Renaissance and Reformation. Indian society Its conservatism and orthodoxy He would have definitely opposed. A reformer, an educationist He was A debater too. Poetry to Derozio is a debate On free-thinking and liberty, Reformative zeal and spirit. Abraham Lincoln's dreams of democracy One may in his poetry The concepts of the French Revolution. Burning with the fire of patriotic zeal, Nationalistic spirit He wrote down poetry Grappling with Indian themes and situations He faced it discrimination in the India Of then times. When he talks of the orphan girl, The images of the poor girl Of Tagore's The Postmaster Dances upon the eyes. To read him is to be reminded of Tagore's Chandalika, Gandhi's Harijanodhara, Lawrence's gipsy. His reformative spirit Reminds us of Ram Mohan Roy, Vidyasagar. The Sati system struck him And he felt morose, Johar. The child marriage would have Hurt him definitely And untouchability in general. Derozio burning with The frenzy of romanticism Was reformative and liberative. Indian society Its conservatism and orthodoxy He would have definitely opposed.