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A Quest for Idyllic Beauty in the Land of Mystery: A Comparative Discussion of Rabindranath Tagore’s “Aimless Journey” (“Niruddesh Yatra”) and Robert Frost’s “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”
(CRP, International Islamic University Chittagong, Bangladesh, 2015-12) Ahmed, Mohammad Kaosar; Jahan, Sultana
A study in poetic affinities between Rabindranath Tagore and Robert Frost seems a bit strange to the reader as both the poets belong to two different nations. Apparently there is no connection between the two great poets – one belongs to America and the other belongs to India with a poetic career spanning the last four decades of the 19th century and the first four decades of the 20 century. The affinities between Tagore and Frost are clearly seen in their works. In respect of their poetic vision, their attitude to nature, the world, sense of beauty and wonder, yearning for the ideal, both the poets share a considerable portion of similarities. However, a sense of divergence from each other prevails beneath the similarities as Tagore is a devotee and his appreciation, particularly in the West, refers to him as a mystic poet, while Frost is an agnostic. This paper attempts to make a comparative study of Frost’s ‘Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening’ and Tagore’s “Aimless Journey” with a view to unfolding the astonishing similarities and differences between the poets.
Reading Burgess’s A Clockwork Orange: Cultural Oddities and Their Social Impact
(CRP, International Islamic University Chittagong, Bangladesh, 2010-12) Ahmed, Mohammad Kaosar; Rahman, Md. Mizanur
Anthony Burgess’s A Clockwork Orange (1962) portrays the disintegration of the traditional British culture and the rise of a new youth culture in revolt which produced violence and perversity. This youth culture started pervading the layers of the traditional British culture. The 1960s had found the British culture assuming a distorted shape both in values and norms - a culture completely opposite to its original tradition in terms of the socioeconomic changes that took place following the Second World War. The postwar generation had to peep into the collapsed world from a perspective quite different from the previous one because of the rising tension emerging out of a new threat from nuclear war hanging overhead. This paper seeks to explore the extent to which the newly emerged culture affected the young generation and brought about chaos and disorder in British society.