The Poet as Mouse and Owl: Reflections on a Poem by Jībanānanda Dāś
| Autor: | Edward C. Dimock |
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| Rok vydání: | 1974 |
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| Zdroj: | The Journal of Asian Studies. 33:603-610 |
| ISSN: | 1752-0401 0021-9118 |
| DOI: | 10.2307/2053127 |
| Popis: | One day eight years agoit was heard that they had taken himto the dissecting room;yesterday evening it was, in the darkness of the Phalgun nightwhen the fifth moon sankhis desire was to die.His wife lay beside him, his child too;he had love, and hopein the moonlightand then he sawwhat spirit? Why did he wake from sleep?Or perhaps sleep was a long time comingand now he liesin sleep, in the dissecting room.Perhaps he wanted this sleep.Like a plague rat, face smeared with bloody foam,neck twisted, in a lightless hole he sleeps now;he will awake no more.;He will awake no morethe thick pain of awakeningincessantlythe constant burdenhe will bear no moreinto unprecedented darknessas if beside his windowa few silences were comelike a camels neck. |
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