Vignettes Of Sea - A Review Comments

For those who mind rhyme and rhythm, meter and new idiom, Dr.Indira Babbellapati's VIGNETTES OF THE SEA is a real revelation. Once D.H. Lawrence who was a strong protagonist of free verse, wrote to Edward Marsh
"…..always tried to get an emotion out in its own course, without altering it……"
Dr.Indira's poetry very much reminds those words of Lawrence. Her poetry runs with effortless ease sucking the reader into her world of sea. You feel as if you are standing somewhere in the Visakhapatnam beach and watching Indira sometimes standing on a hillock with fluttering sari, glancing at the distant horizon, sometimes in knee-deep brine playing with the waves, sometimes sitting on a sand dune inclining on a battered sampan in pensive mood and so on.
In her poetry, words lose their identity and emotions overtake; beauty overwhelms and a tender spirit fills the readers' heart and makes them to go through those picturesque scenes, those delicate feelings she portrayed. In fact she didn't dwell in any fantasy nor did she try to add anything synthetic to the originality of the nature. She simply portrayed all that our eyes more than often miss that is reigning around us with great majesty; and that reality looks like a fantasy to us.
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