Humanism in Devkota’s Bhikhari

Abstract

This paper analyzes some of the poems from Laxmi Pd. Devkota’s Bhikhari, one of the popular compilations of Nepali poetry. Devkota is primarily a humanist poet. He is also the leading Nepali poet who popularized Romantic poetry in Nepali literature. In Bhikhari, Devkota seems more like a ‘romantic humanist’. The paper tries to trace the root of ‘humanism’ in general, and how English Romantic poets accommodated it in their Romantic philosophy later in the 19^th century. In short, humanism believes that individuals have everything they need to grow and develop to their fullest potential. This article is a reading of Devkota’s some of the poems from his collection Bhikhari from the perspective of humanism.