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Concepts of Confinement in Anand’s The Living Splendour

Roghayeh Farsi
University of Neyshabur, Iran


Abstract

The present study gives a close reading of some of the selected poems of the living Indian poet, Anand. His collection of poems, The Living Splendour (2017), touches on different dimensions of a modern man’s life, including personal and public lives. This study argues despite its apparent celebration of splendor, the collection is replete with concepts of confinement. The paper extracts these concepts to support the main argument of the paper. It goes by selection and reads the poems that conceptualize confinement in various aspects of life. The concepts show not only Anand is well aware of the restrictions of his context, but they also evince his inconsistencies. The fluctuations are symptoms of the (post)modern indeterminacy from which he has not remained immune.

Keywords: Anand, concept, confinement, India, modern

Introduction

Jernail S. Anand is the living Indian poet who has been quite prolific in poetry. He has different volumes of poems, each of which has its own style and perspective. Like any other man of letters, Anand writes and while writing plays with and draws upon potentials of English language. The present paper argues Anand’s collection of poems, The living splendor (2017), develops out of basic concepts of confinement. The paper analyzes some of his poems in the light of these concepts, extracts them, and interprets them. The concept of confinement is presented through some lexical triggers.

The collection encompasses a wide variety of themes and deals with different dimensions of life, ranging from the most personal aspects up to the most public ones. The concepts of confinement can be regarded as the cementing devices that interlink different subject matters together in order to produce a more comprehensive vision of the poet’s persona.

The present study goes by selection; it chooses the poems which bear more central concepts of confinement. The concepts are metaphorical as they draw upon the embodied experiences that we get even before learning language. The paper provides a close reading of the selected poems and tries to show the various topics the concepts encompass.

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Roghayeh Farsi, Ph.D.
University of Neyshabur
Iran
farsiroghayeh1956@gmail.com

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