Toru Dutt Questions and Answers

Toru Dutt

In the poem "The Lotus" by Toru Dutt, Love asks Flora for the queen of the flowers. The rose and the lily compete for the honor, both of which have been supported by bards of power. The rose is red...

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Toru Dutt

In the poem "Sonnet," Toru Dutt uses color imagery to convey nature's beauty, remarking on the "green" and "gray" of the foliage in her garden and contrasting these to the "red," "white," and...

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Toru Dutt

In "The Lotus," the goddess of Love wants the goddess of flowers, Flora, to pick which one of all the flowers will be queen. Both the lily and rose are contenders, and factions emerge supporting...

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Toru Dutt

"The Lotus" by Toru Dutt shares many features with a Petrarchan sonnet, including the structure of an octave and a sestet, and a volta at line 9. However, it deviates in its rhyme scheme, using...

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