Malay Roychoudhury's poem 'Stark Electric Jesus' : Analysis by Prof Shital Choudhuri
In every country whenever a poet departed from the beaten path and searched for a new one, older traditionalists became very angry and tried to create problems for him. Many poets had to face humiliation and abuse for such new ventures. Very often they have had to face punishments for their works. They had to fight through their life to establish themselves. In this connection one specially remembers modern French poet Charles Baudelaire. He was kept at a distance by traditionalists during his lifetime. It is obvious that the leading light of Hungry Generation literary movement would face such attacks during his creative time. For this poet Malay Roychoudhury was even put up in lock-up and sentenced by court. Picking up the word Hungry from British poet Geoffrey Chaucer's ...
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