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A SEA OF FOLIAGE

-Toru Dutt
I. Glossary
1. foliage – vegetation, greenery

2. grids – surrounds

3. unvaried – exist in large numbers

4. clumps – bunches or clusters, things close to each other

5. green profound – deep, dark green

6. o’er – over.

7. seemuls – silk cotton trees with red flowers

8. swoon – feel dizzy

9. a primeval Eden – the first garden where, according to the Bible, Adam and Eve, the first
human beings, lived

10.in amaze – in amazement or wonder

II. Summary
“A Sea of Foliage” is a sonnet (a poem with fourteen lines).In this poem the poetess-Toru Dutt
describes the beauty of the garden around her family bungalow. .She compares the greenery
surrounding her garden with the sea..She says that while the sea has an unchanging green
colour, her garden is filled with different and exciting shades of green, light green tamarind,deep
green mango groves,in between are the grey green trunk of palms and also contrast of the
brialliant red flowers of the seeemul tree which takes one by surprise like the sudden shrill
sound of the trumpet.

However even more beautiful than these colours is the sight of the moon through the
bamboo trees and when the white lotus shining as a silver cup in the moon light.The scene is so
enchanting that one might almost faint,intoxicated by its beauty and go on gazing at primeval
Eden in utter amazement.

III. Figure of speech used in the Poem

 Simile: a phrase that uses a comparison to describe.


Ex: like pillars grey-The tall palms are compared with grey pillars.

like a trumpet’s sound-the red seemuls are compared with a trumpet sounds as they are
very startling amidst greenery.

 Metaphor- a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally


applicable.
Ex: Sea of foliage –the foliage is compared to the sea due to its vastness but it is used
as a metaphor.

 Personification- a figure of speech where non-living objects are described to


seem like people. Personification gives human traits and qualities, such as emotions,
desires, sensations, gestures and speech, often by way of a metaphor.
Ex: The moon looks through their gaps.

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