Keywords
Kashi, Daruwalla, Intentionality, Phenomenology.
Abstract
The Paper launches a phenomenological inquiry into Banaras's cultural and spiritual representation by the poet Keki N Daruwalla in his poem “Boat-ride Along Ganga”. It studies the phenomenological intentionality of the poet in relation to its cultural and spiritual representation of the city. The Paper parallelly argues about the state of the objects of the city portrayed by Keki N Daruwalla. The objectives of the paper are to study the representation of the cosmos of the Kashi in the poem and compare it with the current state of the city. The poem serves as a means of understanding the essence of a city, focusing on how urban space is experienced, imagined, and lived through poetic language. The paper also seeks to uncover how the poem mediates the reader’s experience of the city, from its physical architecture and rhythms to its symbolic and cultural resonances. Daruwalla’s poem is utilized as a unique order of presenting reality (Hayden White) in studying cultural representation.
