However, the (somewhat fuzzy) details regarding the poem’s “date-of-creation” leads me to conclude the poem was written separately and is likely one of Bendre’s early experiments with the Petrarchan sonnet form – which experiments would culminate in the harvest of oct-sestets of “ಉಯ್ಯಾಲೆ” ( uyyāle: the swing), Bendre’s 1938 collection of poems. (Incidentally, his poem ‘ Sorcerer (ಗಾರುಡಿಗ)‘ serves as the epilogue.) In any case, it seems fair to call this one of Bendre’s “early poems” (when, one can surmise, the Ambikatanayadatta within him had only just begun to come into its own.)Ĭurrently, the poem acts as the prologue to the collection ಮೂರ್ತಿ ( mūrti: ~ idol), a set of poems that together narrate the rise, the life, and decline of a stone idol.
Bendre has written that ತುತೂರಿ ( tutūri: ~ trumpet) was his first work, but the book I have says this poem was written sometime between 19 (when Bendre was between 18 and 22 years old).
This is an interesting poem, made more interesting when one realizes that it is also among Bendre’s earliest.
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