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
Having roots in Feminist Criticism, Lesbian and Gay Criticism are the newer development which are now exploring. Lesbian Criticism and Gay Criticism are not symmetrical chiefly because Lesbian and Gay relationships themselves are not symmetrical. Lesbian literary theories have tended to see their affinities more with the Feminist theories than with the Gay theories.
It is often said that the homosexual writers produced their works, portrayed the characters as a result of pain associated with their relationship or from the guilt complex. Shakespeare's works, not only the sonnets addressed to a fair youth but also his plays, have stimulated a fair amount of Gay Criticism. In The Merchant of Venice, Antonio is in despair because he despises himself for his homosexuality which is romantic, obsessive and exclusive and fills him with sexual shame. At present there are some Gay Critics who study lesbian or Gay Authors and write about them insightfully and without hostility.
A lesbian Feminist reading of a female writer would not have to prove that she slept with another woman . Rather lesbian Feminist Criticism will ask the question hitherto passed over but it will not search the heterosexual romance of the woman writer. One assumption in much lesbian and gay critical writing is that although gender greatly influences the way in which we read , some people read them in straightforward manner to get pleasure. Therefore, men must stop ignoring the works of the women writers and must learn how to read, praise them with newly opened eyes .
While many in the field of lesbian and gay criticism have tuned their energies towards examining the effects that the authors or characters of the works may have upon the text , others began to question the concept of sexual identity itself.
The teams 'heterosexual' and 'homosexual' represent the way of defining human beings that are distinct to particular cultures and historical periods. The goal of Gay and Lesbian Criticism is not to define the specificity of a Lesbian or Gay literature or mode of interpretation but to show how the ideology makes it seem natural to think about sexuality in terms of such identities as Lesbian, Gay, Bi- sexual or Straight . Such Criticism always redefine the society and literature in terms of gender understanding . Such critics make it clear that in literary sense, sexuality is always a representation of fiction that society has constructed in order to make sense out of experience. Such critics have challenged the authority of the opposition between heterosexuality and homosexuality and have read it as a historical construct rather than a biological or psychological absolute.
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