DOI: https://doi.org/10.59321/BAUETJ.V4I2.26
AUTHOR(S)
Farzana Nasrin
ABSTRACT
Michael Madhusudan Datta writes his major poems and dramas in aesthetic style which is the use of blank verse. He chooses a distinct medium of literary terms in the free verse and it delineates the features of uncommon preferences. He is highly subjective in the imagination of writing poetic quality of contemporary trends that precisely one of the issues for mediocrity in dramas and poetry. His use of blank verse is a milestone in Westernized Modern Bengali Poetry and Drama because he was the pioneer of writing his masterpieces under the influence of John Milton, Homer, and William Shakespeare. He also deviates from the Sanskrit sources containing both divine and demonic characters of Hindu mythology. Madhusudan’s writings reflect the age of the Renaissance in Bengal which belonged to the young Bengal group for his social reform movement of the time, women’s emancipation, colonial miseries, and the great intellectual awakening from British colonialism. The miraculous blank verse has gone to help Bengali beat the English from where he had borrowed it. He has nationalist zeal and a spirit of competition which was the driving force of his writings for Bengali literature. This research explores that Madhusudan’s aim was to modernize Bengali literature in the light of Europe.