Nature, Memory, and the Self: Reading the Inner Landscapes in B.S. Tyagi’s Autumn Colors

Abstract

The present research article deals with the interwoven themes of nature, memory and self in B.S. Tyagi’s poetry collection Autumn Colors (2023), by asserting it as a meditative journey towards the poet’s inner worlds and social consciousness. Tyagi represents nature not only as passive landscape but as reflection of emotional and spiritual conditions— indeed a belief in metaphysics that an external world corresponds to an internal experience. The poems in this collection confirm the ability to make suffering worthwhile and beauty real, and to articulate a vision of wholeness both within and beyond individual identity. The spirituality of poet has been extensively examined showing his yearning for union with Bramha which resonates such images and themes, leading to levels of spiritual fulfillment. Memory plays a crucial role throughout the collection. It remains a subject and poetic technique, showing how remembering themselves can provide healing from emotional pain and a source of creative transformation. Examining the intersection of ecological receptivity, autobiographism and philosophical depth in Autumn Colors, the article contends that it might be read as a work which embodies an intercultural poetics belonging to the Eastern metaphysics.