Pensive Memories By T.V.Reddy

Pensive Memories by T.V.Reddy Brought out in 2005 Is a collection of pensive memory and reflection Where the poet reminisces, remembers With lamentation The times sped by, Fled and slipped With a view to catching the spirit Of the gone by moments. A poet of gloomy despair and dejection, Grief and broken lyre, Fleeting bubbles and rhythms, He seeks to catch despair And pensive reflection With his pen and paper. The New Year, Can I Sing, The Bridal Bosom, Bride's Wishes, An Orphan Lad, The Crow, Migrating Birds, This Dull Evening, A Violent Winter, A Stretch of Shadow, Sailing Saree, Ageing Smiles, A Lone Bird, The poems. Reddy's grief is not a romantic grief, But the Victorian grief, Falling short of in being Betwixt faith and doubt, Tennysonian and Arnoldian indeed Rather than What we take him for, But not so successful As thematically he is poor, but imagistically strong And on a sound footing of his. Though we call him a rural poet, One of such a background, But there is nothing much As that to corroborate our statement That he lived in villages, Wrote about them, The problems and scarcity of it.