Poetic Journey from Chaucer to Mukunda Chakrabarti

Chaucer and Mukunda Chakrabarti are truly the social historians of England and Bengal in the late fourteenth and sixteenth century respectively. Their verses reflect the medieval era as a complete whole. Other poets of their age draw attention to only certain limited aspects of the time. It is their greatness that they show not one aspect of their time only, but all its wide and different faces of life. Chaucer and Mukunda give a direct view of reality and a true picture of daily life of their ages. Chaucer mirrors his age in The Prologue to the Canterbury Tales and Mukunda Chakrabarti depicts the true colour and aroma of sixteenth century Bengal in the Chandi Mangal.

Keywords: corruption, medieval age, church, goddess, pilgrims.