It is universal truth that literature should not be defined or divided according to any specific region or language. So literature is a world centered concept where all races, languages, religions got mingled. During the beginning period of 20th Century, Eastern and Western literature posses some kind of similar literary conception specially on spiritualism and mysticism. W.B. Yeats and Rabindranath Tagore were the chief intellectual and literary representative of Ireland and India respectively during that time. Basically they were the identity of their own nation before the World. In this paper my intention is to find out the philosophic resemblance of that two Nobel Laureate in few of their writings specially on their conception of spiritual …show more content…
The sages stood in the fire like the stones in mosaic marbles. He asserted the permanence of the sages in fire . The old man requested those agent of God to purify his souls. So here fire stands for purification. So he appealed to them :
“Consume my heart away, sick with desire
And fastened to a dying animal.”
It is very significant because the old man wants to burn all his animal desires that are the black mundane wishes of our soul. It will be then easy to go to the eternity. Here the burning is not agony but the blessings of God. Through this fiery purification we may take the divine shape. Here Yeats used fire not as destroyer but preserver that remind us God Shiva in Hindu mythology. No doubt here fire stands for purgatory. In this regard the second important poem is “Byzantium” where the poet described the ‘fiery purification’ in detail. In the opening line the poet said -- “The unpurged images of the day recede’ that imply that those ‘unpurged’ should be purged that is the point of view. After describing the skeltonic urpurged shape the poet directly went to the purification episode. He wonderfully described the divine fire that is blazing autonomously without any support of faggot or steel. He said –
“Flames that no faggot feeds, nor steel has