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Volume 16:6 June 2016
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The Bleak World of Anand’s A Million Destinies

Roghayeh Farsi, Ph.D.
University of Neyshabur, Iran


Abstract

The present article deals with J. S. Anand’s poetic collection, A Million Destinies. An analytic scrutiny into the poems shows the world of this collection is highly bleak, replete with suffering and despair. There is an endeavor to elicit the signs of this darkness. It is argued that despite being backed up by a rich tradition of Buddhism, Anand’s world is a thwarted one wherein Western notions of postmodernity have destabilized Indian traditions without giving people the comforts of a postmodern lifestyle. Indian culture, as manifest in this collection, is viewed as the battlefield between the demands of a traditional outlook and the sea changes the colonial and/or imperial has brought about onstage. Anand’s poetry emerges out of such clashes and testifies to the state of suspension (post)modernized Indian man is exposed to. His speaker is a man torn between the yearnings of his soul, still crying out to him, and the unheeding space of technology-ridden life breaking his bones.

Keywords: Anand, suffering, pain, happiness

Introduction

Anand’s time is an epoch of struggles between man and machine, morality and utility, body and soul, self and other, real and virtual. The world which lacks God, faith, or at least any sort of supernatural power proves to be strange to Anand’s speaker. India is famous for having embraced almost all types of religions and being home to miscellaneous beliefs. In such a spiritual laden context, Anand’s de-spiritualized world comes as a shock to the reader. Scrutinized, however, his nagging speaker takes issue with the spiritual introduced and hailed to people as being instrumentalized by the powerful. This article analyzes most of the poems of the collection in the line of these claims trying to justify the bleakness of Anand’s world.

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