Rabindranath Tagore is a myriad minded man and a relentless spokesperson of humanity. His poetic genius surpasses the barriers of space and time. He has given Indo Anglican poetry a new dimension- 'prose-poem' making a solid technical achievement in his powerful manipulation of free verse form and poetic prose. Rabindranath Tagore's poem, ' Upagupta ' is the translated work of his bengali poem named 'Avisara' ( অভিসার ) . Upagupta leads ascetic life renouncing the luxury and hedonistic pleasure and travels from one town to another. He is one of the disciples of Lord Buddha. The poem opens with the description of a day of August with ' murky sky ' which made the people to stay indoors , turning out the lamps. In this rainy night, Upagupta sleeps in the dust near the city wall of Mathura. Suddenly his sleep is disturbed by the feet of a lustrous city woman . He does not mind it at all as it has not been a deliberate atte
W. B. Yeats in his poem , ' The Lake Isle of Innisfree ' takes us to a remote, langurous,dreamy atmosphere of the earthly fairy land . Having resided in city life for a prolonged time, the poetic persona wants to take refuge in lap of Nature. The dull and deary life of the city has suffocated the spirit of the creation so he desires for the solitary and peaceful pastoral life . The poem opens with the Biblical allusion " I will arise and go.." to create a spiritual affinity with mother nature. He wants to stay in close contact with Nature so he wishes to build and stay in a little room made with clay and twigs. He also desires to plant nine rows of beans and wishes to get honey from the hives. The humming sound of the bees resonates the ambience. Like Wordsworth, Yeats also wants to 'live alone' in pastoral settings to experience the spiritual experience.
In the second stanza, poet wants to find peace in a slow motion in the song of cricket , in cover of morning mist , glowing purple noon , in the clear shiny midnight and in the colourful wings of the little linnets.
In the third stanza, poet wishes to get up and go to enjoy the beauty of Innisfree all day and night, wants to enjoy the soft melodies of the breaking of small waves on the shore. When he will return to the city or stand on the pavement or on the roadway , he wants to make the sound a cascade of joy and store it in the deepest chamber of his heart. This kind of spiritual kinship with Nature will infuse Devine force in his spirit.
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