The Lunatic by Laxmi Prasad Devkota
The poem The Lunatic is written by a Nepali poet Laxmi
Prasad Devkota who was born in 1909 and died in 1959; the speaker of the poem
is insane and tells about his unusual activities just opposite from normal sane
people, and he takes himself insane because he can't hear injustices and
inequalities that exist in this society and the world ruled by fools, and he
says that a mad person must have six senses because they do no bias.
Looking back at the then-unjust society, he has shifted via
ideas and feelings in this poem; the speaker has created a world of contrasts
where oppositions are desirable aspects by which the poet wishes to have a
systematic and humane world. He put on the mask of a lunatic, but the so-called
sane are insane and foolish. He wants to break down all the values of social
injustices and dominance by using his characters like confidence, imagination,
abnormality, aggression, and rebellion. The poet's skillful presentation of
sane and insane characters, activities, and states may be a challenge to the so-called civilized, high-class class, and rulers who enjoy controlling others
and looting the innocent.