Volume II,Issue IV, March 2026
Volume-II, Issue-IV, March, 2026 |
Received: 20.03.2026 | Accepted: 27.03.2026 | ||
Published Online: 31.03.2026 | Page No: | ||
DOI: 10.69655/atmadeep.vol.2.issue.04W. | |||
| পশ্চিমবঙ্গে রেশনিং ব্যবস্থার আর্থ-সামাজিক ইতিহাস ও রূপান্তর পর্যালোচনা এস. কে. সুজাউদ্দিন, স্বাধীন গবেষক, পশ্চিমবঙ্গ, ভারত |
Dr. Sourav Majumder, Independent Research Scholar, North 24 Parganas, West Bengal, India | ||
ABSTRACT | ||
Utpal
Kumar Basu was a Bengali poet who belonged to the
so-called ‘Turbulent Fifties’ of 20th Century. The poets of his
generation grew up in an all-encompassing phase of anarchy and anxiety—The
Second World War, recurring communal rife, incomplete Indian independence, refugees
flocked at Sealdah station—each and every event marked their negative
impressions on these tender minds. The typical political belief-system had lost
its appeal to them, and without any substitute narrative to put their hope on,
they gradually grew apart from the usual Bengali middle-class morals. In a
creative frenzy, they tried to create their own narratives by jotting down
their very own personal experience and emotions as poetry. This introspective
tendency clashed against lost morals, and created a sense of alienation and
impotence in the poetry of fifties. Utpal Kumar Basu created his own poetic
diction with surrealistic properties. As Surrealism itself was an attempt to
express the “true functioning of thought … in the absence of all control by the
reason”, it resonated well with the self-reflective tendency of Basu’s poetry.
This liaison between Surrealism and self-reflection in Utpal Kumar Basu’s
poetry is explored in this article. | ||
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