Masquerade of Euphoria: Angst and Anomie – Diminuendo and Crescendo

Masquerade of Euphoria: Angst and Anomie – Diminuendo and Crescendo

Our very own Thomas Chatterton, Bhanusingha, i.e., Rabindranath Tagore's adolescence-16 year’s avatar, also created such masterpieces at that tender age, emulating Vaishnavite poets like Vidyapati and Chandidasa, whose leit motif was the cult of worshipping the amour of Radha and Krishna. He has left a spell at that age, which seems well-nigh impossible...and, that too was written in apparently Maithili language.In his autobiographical tome, Jibansmriti (Memoirs of my life), Rabindranath has made an elaborate discourse on this magical poetic experience. . ., that, in one rain soaked afternoon, with clouds louring from the sky he was spellbound and having a slate and a chalk scribbled 'Gahano kusumo Kunjamaajhey'...this opened up the fountainhead of the heavenly poet in him and he wrote a voluminous series of poems on this genre. Here we find a weird similarity of Rabindranath with the young poet, who looked like an angel, Thomas Chatterton...who has to undergo a pitiless onslaught, most savage, by the contemporary critics and so called connoisseurs. Thomas Chatterton (20 November 1752 – 24 August 1770) was indicted of pseudo-medieval poetry, christened Rowley Poems, which was brainchild, the romance of Thomas Rowley, an make-believe cleric of the 15th century, and adopted for himself the pseudonym Thomas Rowley for poetry. According to psychoanalyst Louise J. Kaplan, his being fatherless played the pivotal role in his imposturous creation of Rowley, “to reconstitute the lost father in fantasy From his poetic prose , Chatterton’s remonstration against his unaccomplished thirst for eminence, for which he has taken an erroneous detour,  he has expressed with a rare tour de force "Last Will and Testament".  A line was gleaned from this pamphlet and was inscribed as his epitaph, "To the memory of Thomas Chatterton. “Reader! judge not. If thou art a Christian, believe that he shall be judged by a Superior Power. To that Power only is he now answerable."...after his most untimely death at a very tender age, them a successive Romantics -chiefly, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, Keats and much later Dante G. Rosseti were enraged and they scribbled lines with his fond remembrance I 'ld be signing off with a couple of lines by Percy Shelley, that was written by a poet, whose ideals regarding Romanticism was unparalleled:

 "The inheritors of unfulfilled renown
Rose from their thrones, built beyond mortal thought,
Far in the unapparent. Chatterton
Rose pale, his solemn agony had not
Yet faded from him;"- Adonais/ Percy Shelley.

 However, it is much relieving that Tagore was not pilloried and crucified, for his unique venture that would be cherished generations after generations...and was spared off the spiteful castigation by the critics and the dilettantes of his time. After such a slapdash write up, let me sign off with a poem befitting of the topic without which my gibberish looks like a crumbling façade.

Invictus

Out of the night that covers me, 
Black as the Pit from pole to pole, 
I thank whatever gods may be 
For my unconquerable soul. 

In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll.
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.

                                              -William Ernest Henley

FIVE FACTS ABOUT THE BEATLES

FIVE FACTS ABOUT THE BEATLES

We all know that the band was formed in March 1957. The initiative was taken by John Lennon and some of its friends. Well initially the band was known as Blackjack and later as Quarryman. Paul McCartney joined the band later after hearing them performing at a Church social. George Harrison joined the band the following year. After touring for several years a fourth guitarist was added to the band named Stu Sutcliffe. No consistent drummer was found until Pete Best joined the band. They adapted the name The Beatles during their German Tour where they played in several clubs. Their performance in the country lasted for two years and even performed as a backing band for German pop star Tony Sheridan. McCarthy became the bass guitarist after Stu left the band

In 1962 Pete Best was fired from the band after they signed their first concert. This is when Ringo Star stepped in. but the fun fact was that being a left hand drummer Ringo Star always played the right handed set.

When McCarthy was in his teenage years he wrote the song 'When I am Sixty Four'.  People thought that The Beatles’ song, ‘Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds’ was based on the concept of LSD. This song was based on a picture by Lennon’s son Julian. ‘Hey Jules’ was the original title of ‘Hey Jude’. This was a song written by Paul McCarthy for Julian when Lennon and his wife got divorced.

Abbey Road Album has an interesting song called ‘My Majesty’. After recording this song however McCarthy was not in favor and asked the sound engineer to remove it. The engineer on the other hand was scared to do so. This is because all the studios had an unwritten rule that no songs recorded by The Beatles should be deleted at any cost. Therefore he secretly included the song at the end of the list. The Song was known as ‘the hidden track’ because it had a fourteen second gap after the end of the previous song.  McCarthy likes the song after the album was released.  

Abbey Road was the Last Album ‘The Beatles’ recorded. Ringo Star was the first member to quit the band.  The following year it was Lennon. In 1970 Paul McCarthy called it an end with his Beatles carrier just before the release of the album “Let it be” and he personally took the credit for breaking up the band which upset Lennon. After Beatles the members had recorded their own solo album.

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