Abstract
Our term paper is on pragmatics in literary context. The reason behind choosing this topic is we want to verify how pragmatic can be used in literary analysis. For our work, we choose a poem of Kazi Nazrul Islam; named ‘shikol Pora Chol (The Song of Fetter)’,and specifically we are focusing on the word ‘bidhi’, which has several meaning. We put logics and analysis for each meaning and tried to find the best-fitted meaning according to the context of the poem.
Introduction
The Poem ‘Shikol Pora Chol’ is one of the most influential and rebellious representation of Kazi Nazrul Islam. He wrote it in Hugli prison as a federal prisoner in 1923. This poem later included in his poem-collection named “Bisher Bashi” (flute of poison) in 1924. Nazrul was convicted for so-called treasonable instigation against British Empire.
For our research, we have taken two lines form these poem. These two lines are, “Tomra bondho ghorer bondhnite korso bissho grash, ar voy dekhiye korbe vabcho Bidhir shokti hrash!.
Our prime focus is on the word ‘Bidhi’ in context of the poem and its background. Therefore, what is the most fitted and reasonable meaning of this word in the poem.
Methodology
At the initial step of our research, we have translated the poem into English from Bengali. We tried to maintain the original poetic formation used