%0 Journal Article
%T Reading into the Magic of Words. A Sample Interpretation of Uṣā by Shamsher Bahadur Singh
%A Czekalska, Renata
%J Studia Litteraria Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis
%V 2016
%R 10.4467/20843933ST.16.001.4895
%N Volume 11, Issue 1
%P 1-8
%K literary studies, contemporary Indian poetry, 20th-century Hindi poetry, Shamsher Bahadur Singh
%@ 1897-3035
%D 2016
%U https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/studia-litteraria-uic/article/reading-into-the-magic-of-words-a-sample-interpretation-of-usa-by-shamsher-bahadur-singh
%X Modern Hindi poetry is often described as an outcome of Indian tradition and Western influences. The aim of the article is to propose a possible answer to a general question of how the works of cotemporary Hindi poetry should/could be read and analyzed. The proposition is supported with a sample analysis of the poem Uṣā by Shamsher Bahadur Singh.