The Poetic World of Swami Vivekananda: The Power of Spontaneity
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Swami Vivekananda has very rarely been considered as a poet. He has been taken into scholarly consideration as a mystic, philosopher, yogi and mentor but rarely as a soft hearted man of letter with poetic bent of mind. His poetic world is not very large but undoubtly the composition he has written deserve to be read and discussed due to their sheer poetic merits. The present paper is an effort to critically evaluate his profound greatness on the ground of his poetic world that he has created. Various facets of the personality of Swamiji has been tried to explore through his poetic rendering and the less known quality of Vivekananda as a poet is unveiled while comparing his poetic pieces with that of great Romantic poets with whom he may be said to have some sentimental similarities. The semi-comparative study of Swami Vivekananda’s poems along with generously quoted lines from his poetic contribution promises to bring forth a subject of Indian English writing which is very less explored.
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