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Our Casuarina Tree is a poem published in 1881 by Toru Dutt [Ancient Ballads and Legends of Hindustan], an Indian poet. In this poem Toru Dutt celebrates the majesty of the casuarina tree that she used to see by her window, and remembers her happy childhood days spent under it and revives her memories with her beloved siblings.
Toru Dutt was born in Calcutta on 4 March 1856 to a well-respected Bengali kayastha family. Her father, ... "The Lotus", "Sîta", and "Our Casuarina Tree." The last ...
The Casuarina tree of the title is native to Australasia and Southeast Asia, often used to stabilise soils. [5] In Maugham's foreword, he writes that the title was a metaphor for "the English people who live in the Malay Peninsula and in Borneo because they came along after the adventurous pioneers who opened the country to Western civilisation."
Casuarina, also known as she-oak, Australian pine [3] [4] [5] and native pine, [6] is a genus of flowering plants in the family Casuarinaceae, and is native to Australia, the Indian subcontinent, Southeast Asia, islands of the western Pacific Ocean, and eastern Africa.
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Nissim Ezekiel is considered to be a pioneering figure in modern Indian English Poetry.His first book, A Time to Change, was published in 1952.The significant poets of the post-Derozio and pre-Ezekiel times are Toru Dutt, Michael Madhusudan Dutt, Sarojini Naidu, Sri Aurobindo and Rabindranath Tagore.