By

Golam Rabbani

29th batch

M.A.

Session: 2003-2004

Department of English

Jahangirnagar Univesity

Savar, Dhaka

Bangladesh

Merwin comes forward to rescue human and humanity with his barrier breaking voice that has been hurled against the harsh walls of reality. He dives into the wreck of himself and the world and creates a new dimension where the resurrection of a modern era appears with a new tone of Nature and harmony. The revivification is based on the new visions in the old songs, formation of the abandoned, antiestablishment, the marginalized prophet who has some new prophecy, a new interpretation for nature and the theme of recycle. The major symbols are the `Furnace' and the `Drunk' who circulates the idea of resurrection throughout the whole poem. The new song of new era is expressed through the music of...