Hello everyone,
Listed below are Pallavi's poems that were published in Literary Paritantra (Systems): An International Journal on Literature and Theory, vol. 1, nos 3 & 4, Autumn, 2009. The home page of the site is http://www.literaryparitantra.com/LPHome.html.
It has taken a great deal of persuasion to make Pallavi agree for these to be put up on the blog. So, send in your comments and congratulations directly to her at pallavi.narayan@tandfindia.comShafina
Pallavi Narayan
Tristram Twist
T H E
L I F E
A N D
O P I N I O N S
O F
TRISTRAM SHANDY,
G E N T L E M A N
Tarassei tous Anthropous ou ta Pragmata,
alla ta peri ton Pragmaton, Dogmata
V O L. I
THE THIRD EDITION
L O N D O N
Printed for R. and J. DODSLEY in Pall-Mall.
M.DCC.LX.
Consider my life and opinions —
so Tristram said, and in his
autobiography we read a multiplicity
of Shandy dominions, one in
another's vicinity, chock-full
of digressions and Tristram's
visions and views of his family.
Walter Shandy looms large with
his Tristra-paedia, a halter
on the poor boy's educational growth,
one which he appears to have
overcome with élan, as we see
from the plan of the many
volumes of digressive-progressive
... what shall we call it — a novel,
a book, a hobby horse, a something
regressive, as were Uncle Toby's
military fortifications, urged on
by Trim, metaphors for conquering
nations in the clear eye of
Widow Wadman, who with a speck of dirt
real or pretended, captured Toby's
heart distended. However, easily
revoked the proposal, after the
long tussle over the exact location
of the ... hush, should I mention it,
for fear dainty ears will be offended.
Nay, it was the groin, which leads us
back to baby Tristram's whine when
circumcised by the sash of a window,
he wailed as loud as when the nose,
(which is, by the by, a phallic symbol)
was flattened by Slop's forceps, then
rebuilt with a bridge which mirrored
the seige Toby was involved in, the one
he didn't win. And Tristram, to flee
Death, traipsed over Europe, fled
the burgeoning number of Tristrams,
rejoiced in his blossoming wisdoms
at recognizing this phenomenon, and
before the fascination with my own
art gets to me, I'll here end
this tiny history, of fastidious
gallantry, a couple of blank pages,
Sterne's genius and the protagonist's
rising obsession with his own insanity.
For the mind is a maze, with several
false starts and stoppages, and may laze
on events we would most like to forget,
and muse on those that haven't occurred yet.
Tristram Shandy was written in nine volumes between 1759 and 1767 by Lawrence Sterne.
T H E
L I F E
A N D
O P I N I O N S
O F
TRISTRAM SHANDY,
G E N T L E M A N
Tarassei tous Anthropous ou ta Pragmata,
alla ta peri ton Pragmaton, Dogmata
V O L. I
THE THIRD EDITION
L O N D O N
Printed for R. and J. DODSLEY in Pall-Mall.
M.DCC.LX.
Consider my life and opinions —
so Tristram said, and in his
autobiography we read a multiplicity
of Shandy dominions, one in
another's vicinity, chock-full
of digressions and Tristram's
visions and views of his family.
Walter Shandy looms large with
his Tristra-paedia, a halter
on the poor boy's educational growth,
one which he appears to have
overcome with élan, as we see
from the plan of the many
volumes of digressive-progressive
... what shall we call it — a novel,
a book, a hobby horse, a something
regressive, as were Uncle Toby's
military fortifications, urged on
by Trim, metaphors for conquering
nations in the clear eye of
Widow Wadman, who with a speck of dirt
real or pretended, captured Toby's
heart distended. However, easily
revoked the proposal, after the
long tussle over the exact location
of the ... hush, should I mention it,
for fear dainty ears will be offended.
Nay, it was the groin, which leads us
back to baby Tristram's whine when
circumcised by the sash of a window,
he wailed as loud as when the nose,
(which is, by the by, a phallic symbol)
was flattened by Slop's forceps, then
rebuilt with a bridge which mirrored
the seige Toby was involved in, the one
he didn't win. And Tristram, to flee
Death, traipsed over Europe, fled
the burgeoning number of Tristrams,
rejoiced in his blossoming wisdoms
at recognizing this phenomenon, and
before the fascination with my own
art gets to me, I'll here end
this tiny history, of fastidious
gallantry, a couple of blank pages,
Sterne's genius and the protagonist's
rising obsession with his own insanity.
For the mind is a maze, with several
false starts and stoppages, and may laze
on events we would most like to forget,
and muse on those that haven't occurred yet.
Tristram Shandy was written in nine volumes between 1759 and 1767 by Lawrence Sterne.
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