The given ‘Sonnet’ is written by Tom Dutt, a child prodigy who passed away at a very young age leaving behind a remarkable wealth of her poetry.

In this‘Sonnet’, Tom Dutt describes the beauty of the garden around her family bungalow, she tells us that her garden appeared like a ‘sea of foliage’. But, she cautions us not to come to a hasty conclusion and think that it was a sea of dull unvaried green. One could see sharp contrasts of all colours, such as the light – green of the tamarinds which grow abundantly among the mango clumps of green profound ‘dark green’.

In between the tamarid and mango trees the palms arise, sky high like gray pillars. And the seemul trees lean over the serene ponds in the garden. They are all dashing red in colour which glares in our eyes similar to the startling sound of a trumpet.

The poet is enchanted by the bamboos in the east of the garden. She tells us that no other sight in the garden is as lovely as the bamboo ranges (they appear like mountain ranges) when the moon peeps through their gaps. In the moonlight, the while lotus transforms itself into a cap of silver.

The beauty of the garden was so enchanting that one can get intoxicated by beauty and go on gazing at that ‘Primeval Eden’ in utter amazement. Eden is the beautiful garden on earth created for the first human beings of the earth Adam and eve.