Irony and Satire in A. K. Ramanujan's Poem "a River": a Parallel Study with T.s. Eliot and Heidegger's Views on River

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Author	Dutta, Mithun
Copyright Year	2015
Abstract	The poem "A River" by A.K. Ramanujan, a prolific Indian poet in English draws attention by the unconventional presentation of the theme and makes a commentary on rivers, poets and human beings with a realistic look. It deviates from the conventional river-poetry that finds always the river as a source of inspiration to write without having an eye to the other aspects associated with the river. The minute details about the river in the summer as well as when it is flooded, should not be overlooked in poetry as in both stages the river is intimately related to the human beings – be it the flow of the narrow stream being thwarted by the woman’s hair or a pregnant woman drowned with identical twins. The poet’s attitude to the river can also be compared with the realism found in Eliot’s poetry especially in The Waste Land that takes into account the two rivers - Thames and Ganga. The poem has also enough substance to be related with the German’s philosopher Heidegger’s modern views on rivers and poets.
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