“Radha each day grows thinner than the crescent in the sky”, comment on the use of imagery.

Vidyapati has compared Radha’s physical health with the curved shape of the moon. The poet is well known for using imagery in his poems.

In the present poem, he has nicely compared the health of Radha to the curved shape of the moon which gradually becomes shorter each day and finally is reduced to a thin curved line. It is a wonderful example of the use of imagery, in this stanza. “Imagery is the way of expression, using images or comparing something or some persons through images.”.

The poet’s idea behind it is to show the condition of Radha’s health. she has reduced to a Skelton. The depreciation in her health did not occur in a day. It took time to become so. Likewise, the full moon is not reduced to a thin curved line in one day. Every day it gets shorter and it takes about a fortnight to become so.

Thus, the poet has beautifully used imagery in this stanza of the poem.