LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 20:1 January 2020
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The Modern Elegy in English and Tamil

Dr. S. Chelliah, M.A., Ph.D., D.Litt.
J. Kavithanjali, MBA., MLISc., PGDCA

Abstract

This paper purports to define an elegy as a formal and sustained poem of lament for the death of a poem making references to the poems of the notable poets like Tennyson, Auden, Gray in English and Kannadasan, Mudiarasan’s Irangar Paakkal in Tamil and shows how the elegiac poems by English and Tamil poets have line of similarity in treatment of theme and content making it clear that in the modern elegies both in English and Tamil, the term ‘elegy’ has taken a limited scale meaning ‘a song of lamentation’ giving vent to philosophical elements and notes as seen rather richly in Auden’s In Memory of W.B. Yeats and Mudiarasan and Kannadasan’s Irangar Pakkal.

Keywords: W. H. Auden, In Memory of W.B. Yeats, Mudiarasan and Kannadasan Irangar Pakkal, elegy, song of lamentation, sadness, philosophical element, treatment, limited scale, formal poem, similarity, modern age.

So far as present critical usage is concerned, an elegy is a formal and sustained poem of lament for the death of a particular person such as Tennyson’s In Memoriam, on the death of Arthur Hallam and W.H. Auden’s In Memory of W.B. Yeats, Kavignar Kannadasan’s and Mudiarasan’s Irangar Pakkal, on the death of some leader or friend. Sometimes, the term is more broadly used for meditative poem such as Gray’s Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, which deals with the passing of men and the things they value. Modern age is one in which news of tragedy and heroism circles the world with electric speed, in which the great legends of all lands are safely indexed upon literary shelves and in which the singing strains of instrument and voice are impressed in wax for all men to renew at will and in which the traditions are gone with the wind.

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Dr. S. Chelliah, M.A., Ph.D., D.Litt.
Dean of Arts, Humanities & Languages
Professor & Head
Department of English & Comparative Literature
Madurai Kamaraj University
Tamilnadu, India
Cell: 9442621106 / 7339129324
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J. Kavithanjali, MBA., MLISc., PGDCA
Ph.D. Scholar
Department of Library and Information Sciences
Madurai Kamaraj University
Madurai-625 021
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