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On Antoine de Saint's imagination

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Essay; Tapas Sarkar; Imagination cannot be excluded from reality. In other words we can say that reality is the concrete reflection of imagination. When our bodily existence is concrete, then the mental or psycho existence is imaginary (conscious, subconscious, superconscious). As we are, fundamentally, made of body and mind. Therefore, our exclusive true existence is the blend of both these conditions complementarity. With imagination, Antoine de Saint's novella "The Little Prince" reflects this philosophical motto providing fruitful meanings of experience.       The story begins with an aviator who is lonely and frustrated in a desert after his plane crush, where he finds a little prince whose experience of life is a little strange to an earthly man like the aviator, but the little prince's  experience is important to formulate a revolution in the aviator's struggle. Here the little prince can be the aviator himself and the aviator can be interpreted as the re...

Benjamin Zephaniah, the Man, the Writer and the Musician: A Critical Study of the Revolutionary Tone in Zephaniah’s Performance Poetry

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  Tapas Sarkar,  Akshay Kumar Roy,  Delwar Hossain  Abstract:  From the very beginning of literature, poetry has remained as one of the unique mediums of communication between the poets and the readers. It conveys messages of love, morality, philosophy, war, revolutionary ideals and so on and so forth. Over the period of times the form and function of poetry has undergone a drastic change. Different poets in different periods have emerged with their own poetic canons to present their creations to the audience. While talking about British poetry, it too has vast changes both in form and content and its aim from the age of Chaucer to Shakespeare, from Shakespeare to the Romantic period, from the Romantic to the Victorian period and from the Victorian to the present day England. England, of course, in this post-colonial era has become the land of multiculturalism, trade, religion, and so on, especially with the black emigrants from the African-Caribbean continents ...