Open AccessT.V. REDDY’S QUEST FOR PEACE AND STEPHEN GILL’S THE FLAME: A COMPARATIVE STUDY
Author(s) -
Neelam Kumar Sharma
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
scholarly research journal for interdisciplinary studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2319-4766
pISSN - 2278-8808
DOI - 10.21922/srjis.v8i65.1330
Subject(s) - power (physics) , politics , dishonesty , law , philosophy , art , political science , physics , quantum mechanics
Stephen Gill Composed The Flame in eight parts and T.V. Reddy has gone for seven sections or cantos in his longer poem Quest for Peace. Vices such as dishonesty, too much of greed and selfishness prevailing in the society are exposed and the poet (T.V. Reddy) skillfully attempts to attack particularly the present day politics, cleverness and disloyalty to the society and to the country at large. Gill in his master-piece creation, reveals his ambition for the quest of peace, destroyed by the maniac messiahs, with the eternal light of his divine flame he determines to dispel the darkness of the human souls. His flame has an inexhaustible, an undying and unending power, with which he is on his mission – peace. He invokes the flame thus: