Concepts of Confinement in Anand's The Living Splendour.

The present study gives a close reading of some of the selected poems of the living Indian poet, Anand. His collection of poems, The Living Splendour (2017), touches on different dimensions of a modern man's life, including personal and public lives. This study argues despite its apparent celebration of splendor, the collection is replete with concepts of confinement. The paper extracts these concepts to support the main argument of the paper. It goes by selection and reads the poems that conceptualize confinement in various aspects of life. The concepts show not only Anand is well aware of the restrictions of his context, but they also evince his inconsistencies. The fluctuations are symptoms of the (post)modern indeterminacy from which he has not remained immune. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]