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    Gajanan Madhav Muktibodh was one of the greatest Hindi poets and writers of the 20th century. His poem "The Void" depicts a moral and spiritual emptiness that has spread across society like a disease, turning people violent and barbaric. The void is portrayed as a monstrous creature that devours humanity. It breeds more violence and corruption, paradoxically giving "birth" to a new generation through death. In the end, society is so overwhelmed by the void that people accept violence as normal. His poem "So Very Far" criticizes the rich who have gained power through corruption, while the intellectual classes like the poet feel unable to enact reform due to their circumstances. It highlights the

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    Gajanan Madhav Muktibodh was one of the greatest Hindi poets and writers of the 20th century. His poem "The Void" depicts a moral and spiritual emptiness that has spread across society like a disease, turning people violent and barbaric. The void is portrayed as a monstrous creature that devours humanity. It breeds more violence and corruption, paradoxically giving "birth" to a new generation through death. In the end, society is so overwhelmed by the void that people accept violence as normal. His poem "So Very Far" criticizes the rich who have gained power through corruption, while the intellectual classes like the poet feel unable to enact reform due to their circumstances. It highlights the

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    Gajanan Madhav Muktibodh’s

    “The Void” and “So Very Far”


    BAI ENGLISH
    (Literary Cross- Currents)
    ENG DSC 203
    Gajanan Madhav Muktibodh 13th
    November1917 to 11th September 1964

    Gajanan Madhav Muktibodh was one of the greatest Hindi


    essayists poets, critics and fiction writers of the twentieth
    century. He is considered as a pioneer of modern Hindi
    poetry in India along with Surya Kant Tripathi ‘Nirala’
    THE VOID

     The Void' is a surrealistic poem which brings out destruction and violence resulting from
    excessive self absorption and a sense of meaninglessness of life. The Void, or nothingness
    is presented in a negative sense. It signifies moral and spiritual vaccum which has given
    rise to barbarism and cannibalism. This void then spreads from one person to another like
    an infectious disease and is therefore more horrible and dangerous.
    THEME AND SIGNIFICANCE

     The void in has been depicted as a terrible monster inside everyone of us. It is the void of
    spiritual sterility. The void has been visualized like a Dracula with huge jaws containing
    flesh eating carnivorous teeth which have the capacity of grinding and gobbling up
    everyone. Thus the poet portrays a Picture of corrupt human state with moral vacuity in
    which every thing is smothered and destroyed. The poet says that the void is not empty
    but stuffed with corruption and violence. The implication is that its a natural hunger has
    devoured the human spirit in its jaws to turn man into beast, naked and barbaric, utterly
    black, debased and it has eaten all the humans from within. Thus the poet creates a
    fantasy of the void as frightening monster.
    THEME CONTINUES

     The poet says that the void is much more malignant than any other conceivable contagion and exercise its
    malignant effect on whomsoever it comes in contact or range. The evil forces manifested in this void on enlarging
    their domain and thus grip the whole mankind. It creates more voids as the infected ones infect others and thus the
    void expands and continues extending its frontiers of evil.
     The poet portrays the void as a durable, fertile, producing tools of violence and the rejoicing at achievement. Thus
    the void breeds evil, anarchy, violence and corruption which are always increasing. It is a paradox that death which
    is supposed to kill is giving birth to fresh new children. Here the new generation being born are symbolized by not
    life but by death which further reinforces the ever going emptiness in the society.
     In the concluding lines from the poem the poet depicts the void as the image of a dehumanized society in which
    violence and injustice are not challenged but accepted as a part of the social system. The void has overpowered us
    so much that we are submerged in it and we are help less to do anything against it. Thus paradoxically it is not the
    void that is within us, but it is who we are within the void. The void in fact is everywhere ,moving about and
    spreading violence, causing destruction of all values and we are helpless before its onslaught.
    SO VERY FAR

     So Very Far' was published in an anthology of poems 'Chand Ka Munh Tedha Hai' in
    1964. This poem too has a marxist flavour and shows the poet's anger at exploitation and
    the injustice as well as his own helplessness in setting things right. The poem is a bitter
    criticism of the rich and influential sections of the society, which have risen up the social
    ladder through corruption and money power.
    THEME'STHEME ‘So Very Far' y Far

     So Very Far focuses on the wide disparity between the rich and the poor in our society and
    the helplessness of the intellectuals like the poet in being unable to improve the situation.
    The poet is acutely aware of the role of corruption and money power in bringing about
    upward social mobility. But due to the circumstances in his life, he feels incapacitated to
    play his role of an agent of change and cleanse the system. The poem points towards the
    economic disparity in society and total inaction on the part of the intellectuals, who are
    supposed to reform it. The poignancy of the situation is clear in poet's realization of the
    need of scavenger, and his inability to play that role.
     THANK YOU!

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