The applications of Imagery: ‘Beerangana Kabya’/ চিত্রকল্পের প্রয়োগ : প্রসঙ্গ ‘বীরাঙ্গনা কাব্য’

Abstract

Madhusudan Dutta spoken about the inevitability of its application in literature in his own words several times. ‘Beerangana Kabya’ is a valuable example of this. However, the trend of considering imagery as an independent element is not a very old one. In the world of the criticism of poetry, the reference to Caroline Spurgeon inevitably comes up on this subject. He shed the light on this subject in the thirties of the twentieth century. And in the context of image he meant ‘every kind of simile’ and ‘every kind of what is really compressed simile- The world of Madhusudan Dutta’s literature is full of imageries. He has repeatedly metaphor’. Again in the forties, Cecil Day Lewis spoke about the imageries being ‘metaphorical’, On the other hand, Renne Walleck again identified it somewhere as a comparison, somewhere as a description. On the other hand, Robin Skelton had divided images into different categories in the book ‘Poetic Pattern’ - 1. Simple Image 2. Abstraction 3. Immediate Image 4. Diffuse Image 5. Abstract Image 6. Combined Image 7. Complex Image 8. Combined Abstract Image 9. Complex Abstract Image and 10. Abstract Combined and Abstract Complex Image। And based on the senses he had divided images into five categories- Visual, Auditory, Olfactory, Gastetory, Tactile.

            We can come to a conclusion that the meaning of images in literature is multidimensional. And to study Madhusudan’s literature, one must focus in this matter. In this context, our discussion will be on ‘Beerangana Kabya’. We have tried to analysis the uses of imagery based on the text. We have extracted the texts of the letters written by Shakuntala, Tara and many others to discuss this. The imageries have been used to express the emotions and somehow themselves have become a character of the text.