Prof. Dr. Abhi Subedi

The dramatic structure of Gopal Parajuli’s second epic Himalmathi Aalekh (Mark on the Summit) has been devised through the sentiments of the dramatic personae. The development of the epical subject has been built on various aspects of an individual’s feelings, crisis, comfort and the circumstances of hope, articulated through the structure of the persona’s rhetoric. This way, by imagining the persona, this epic has become an articulation of personal feelings and expressions the poet has experienced. But a different sort of environment pertaining to personal feelings has also evolved in this epic. In the voice of the persona, his words that address other characters and the images he uses, readers can feel the presence of a time, an age, a free environment for mankind, and visions of human rights and peace, presented in a symbolic fashion. This epic has dramatized an individual’s personal experiences, the circumstances around him and the dialogue he uses to negotiate with the world. That has become the strength and the basis of transparency in this epic. This epic reproduces the structure of the poet’s first epic Prithvimathi Aalkeh (The Mother Figure) but this later work, by dint of the structure of the poet’s experimentation and its transparency in the frame of aphorisms, has become understandably effective.  

                                                                                                                                                                                                                         Prof. Dr. Abhi Subedi, Critic