THE INHERITANCE OF SOLITUDE

<p>Poet and film-maker Aranyak Chakrabarty's first major work in poetry<br>The Inheritance of Solitude (2021) is a hermeneutical<br>text of self-examination based on observing the phenomena of everyday<br>life while in search of “the beyond”. The poems often start from a<br>somewhat local but instantly recognisable scene or observation and<br>then pans out to consider the meaning of this in more abstract terms ; it<br>begin with ordinary daily occurrences and then become more thoughtful<br>and transcendent as the poem progresses.<br>An intellectual consciousness of the relationships between existential<br>crisis and spiritual meditation can be read through the lines.<br>The traces of angst looms beneath the otherwise underplayed language<br>of poetic emotion. However the aim of the young poet is not to create<br>unrest and chaos in the world but to heal and balance it.</p><p><br></p>