Alienation in Tagore’s “Banshi”: An Analysis From Melvin Seeman’s Theoritical Perspective

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  • Md. Sadequle Islam Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Chittagong

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alienation, identity-crisis, meaninglessness, Seeman, Tagore

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Since alienation appears as natural outcome of existential predicament both in ingrained and outward terms, it has left an ineradicable impact upon the modern life and. The theme of alienation has been dealt several times with unceasingly and intrepidly in modern literature. The paper will discuss and analyze theme of alienation in Rabindranath Tagore’s one of the most celebrated poems “Banshi” (The flute) from the theoretical viewpoint of American psychologist Melvin Seeman. It will also show that how identity crisis as one of the prominent trait of modern literature created trauma within the main character of the poem. Seeman’s five major features of alienation are in essence taken into consideration for exploring this Bengali poem.

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2019-12-30

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Islam, M. S. (2019). Alienation in Tagore’s “Banshi”: An Analysis From Melvin Seeman’s Theoritical Perspective. Thai Journal of East Asian Studies, 23(2), 70–80. สืบค้น จาก https://so02.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/easttu/article/view/241340

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