Volume II Special Issue VII July 2022

Name of Author : Kasturi Rebatiraman Sinha

Title of the paper : Revisiting the Graveyard School of Poetry

Abstract: The paper is a discourse upon death, deprivation, grave and substantial manifestations of morbidity that has ever remained the story of everyone’s life. Death is an irreversible phenomenon, no one can escape from it nor can anyone move an inch to breathe back life into the mortals. The graves, skull, worms and burials are the words each individual is accustomed with and have one’s existence relates with its inevitability. In Western philosophy death is considered as liberation of one’s soul towards eternity which is not in the case of Indian philosophy. Culturally, death has been considered as curse in Indian as well as in Western philosophy despite of that the western poets celebrated death in the Graveyard School of Poetry. Hence, this paper is just an attempt to bring back, to the notice of the readers, that if something has ever turned into a School of Poetry, it must be having the quality of being worthy of attention.

Keywords : Graveyard School of Poetry, Pre-Romantic, Inevitability of death, Memento mori, Tombstone

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Page Number : 28-31