Editing Chhayavad (section)

===Early Criticism===
When Chāyāvād first emerged in the early 20th century, it was met with considerable resistance from critics and readers accustomed to the didactic and traditional poetic forms of Brajbhasha and the preceding Dwivedi Yug. The movement’s focus on individual emotion, subjective experience, and mystical symbolism marked a radical departure from the moralistic and public-oriented tone of earlier Hindi literature. Some critics dismissed Chāyāvād poets as overly sentimental, vague, or escapist. The metaphysical and romantic elements were too criticized for being inspired from Western Romanticism directly on indirectly and were often perceived as inaccessible to the common reader.<ref>Shukla, Ramchandra (1938), p.640</ref><ref>Varma, Tulika (July 2024), p.84</ref>