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The secret of the lizard is li:rted from its base in folk-
lore to a contemplative movement in existential definition.
Mr. Prasad seems to have the gift of turning the con-
tour of rthe lyric into a parabola of reflective thought as in:
That is why
Having lost both
Subject and object
I say
There isn't much pain
Even then.
The infinite sadness that curls around thing~ and the
infinite pity in which things become poetry have found a
balance in favour of life rather than against it in Mr. Pra-
sad' s poems. And th~ is a good starting lpoint 1 for a
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climb 'towards the more open spaces and shapes of poetry.
D. V. K. RAGHAVACHARYULU
PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH,
Nagarjuna University.
NAGARJUNA NAGAR.
