Baldoon Dingra (1901-1981) was a well known poet writer and art historian of Pre-Independent India. His poetry dealt mainly with appreciation and adoration of nature. His poem 'Factories Are eye Sores' is a direct critique of Industrialization. Dingra Describes factories as 'eye sores' as if they were diseases or afflictions upon the earth's face.
The poet complains that
the factories 'belch black smoke by night and day' through their chimneys and
blacken the vegetation. That is why he
calls them 'eyesores'. They blot the
visual beauty of the natural world.
Dingra is also talks about the 'weary and desperate' labours of the
factories, who work and live in the polluted atmosphere. Their monotonous toil in the unpleasant atmosphere
of the factory is highlighted in the poem.
Then the poet wonders how the ugliness of the smoke belching factories
would have inspired Claude Monnet like great French painters came out with the
beautiful paintings of the landscapes.
Thus Digra concludes the poem by pointing out how beauty can be created
out of ugliness. However, the poem
focuses its attention on the negative consequences of unchecked
industrialization and stresses the need for the environmental conservation.
------Thulasidharan V
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