Some Essays on Culture, Literature and Poetry E-Book

Kousik Adhikari

• Herausgeber: BookRix
• Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2016

Beschreibung

Poetry, literature, fiction, all are the various gifts of the same genre, that is arts. The book covers some of the areas of arts, literature and poetry, reflecting on different figures of American literature, poetry, like Conrad Aiken, Susan Howe, Beduwin Arab Women poetry and Bankim Anandamath. It opines on different aspects of arts form, a helping guide for deeper understanding and reasoning.

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Kousik Adhikari

Some Essays on Culture, Literature and Poetry

Essays

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Preface

Some Essays is an effort, consisting various subjects, but the focus is literature. The article Poetry of Conrad Aiken: A Study is a study on one of greatest American poets, though, perhaps he was not a very popular poet in the sense of the term. The essay Religion and Inherent Dichotomy of India as an Asian Superpower: A Critical Study into the Space between Culture, Ethnicity, Religion and Identity in Special Reference to Bankimchandra’s Anandamath is an effort to see Bankimchandra’s Anandamath in the light of Anderson’s theory of nation. The Poetic World of Susan Howe: A Study is a critical appreciation of Susan Howe, born 1937 who is undoubtedly one of the greatest poets and unique voices in American Poetry, who is also a scholar, critic, philosopher and a poet who is one of the most difficult and least appreciated. Love and Desire: A Study of Arab Bedouin Women Poetry is a study on mediaeval Arab women poetry or nabati poetry. The last essay is on Harper Lee’s classic To Kill a Mockingbird, a classic in the group of Mark Twain or Faulkner

The Poetry of Conrad Aiken: A Study

Conrad Aiken (1889-1973) reserves a specific niche in the American poetry. Though, perhaps he was not a very popular poet in the sense of the term, he was awarded with several prestigious awards and indeed was much distinguished poet than many of his contemporaries like John Peale Bishop or Archibald Macleish. This was indeed a very peculiar characteristic of his poetry. Different commentators are of the opinion that Aiken has never tried to make himself popularize by adjusting with the current literary trends. Further several childhood incidents influenced his poetry, its themes, and styles like the early childhood tragedy where his father had shot his mother and himself after an ensuing quarrel. Aiken's deeper interest and portrayal of psychology stem from this incident. He himself admits that his short story like Silent Snow, Secret Snow which is a psychological presentation of a disturbed boy was itself a 'projection of his own inclination to insanity'. In this connection Richard Hauer Costa very significantly comments that Aiken was always an 'I' writer, suggesting and presenting the deep psychological workings of self in his work. Aiken can be and should be read as poetry rather than separate individual poems which is 'cognitive music'. In an interview taken by Robert Hunter Wilbur in the year of 1963 and published in Paris Review, Aiken frankly admits that from his boyhood, he had resolved to be a poet and was deeply influenced by a thorough reading of continental poetry especially Italian, Spanish and French poetry. Talking about the influence of Whitman, he there further admits ,"...Whitman had a profound influence on me. That was during my sophomore year when I came down with a bad attack of whitmanitis."