Traits of Romantic Poetry in Select Poems of Jananeta Hijam Irabot Singh
| Author |
| Ratnabali Sanasam & Thingbaijam Nitai Singh |
| Date of Publication: December, 2024 |
| Volume: XXIII, No.- XXVI |
| Abstract |
| Romanticism is a term applied to the artistic, literary and intellectual movement that originated in Europe towards the end of the eighteenth century. In its most coherent and early form, as it emerged in the 1790s in Germany and Britain and, in the 1820s in France and elsewhere, it is known as the Romantic Movement or Romantic Revival. The movement emphasized intense emotion as an authentic source of aesthetic experience. There are certain pronounced traits of Romantic literature, particularly Romantic poetry, as exemplified in the works of Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelly, Keats and Byron. These traits include such distinctive traits or elements as predominance of emotion; belief in the transcendent value of imagination; addition of strangeness to beauty; love of nature and imagery from nature; Utopian and idealistic nature; suggestiveness of style; supernatural element, romantic melancholy, medievalism, Hellenism and revolutionary spirit. The present paper is an attempt to explore Romantic elements or traits in the poetry of Jananeta Hijam Irabot Singh. The poems of Jananeta Hijam Irabot Singh were hailed as celestial wonders in the literary firmament of Manipuri literature. His collection of poems Imagee Pujah has been translated into English by Shri Sanasam Umananda Singh and the present paper is based on this translation published by Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi in 2023. |
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