2017, Vol. 3, Issue 3, Part E

author(s)
Sukanya Boruah

abstract
This paper attempts to analyse the philosophical concept of ‘kavi’ both in eastern and western cultural tradition. Firstly, the concept of kavi is trying to be comprehend through the references of Veda. Later on, Rāmayanā’s Bāla-kānda and other literary works of Indian treatise. Secondly, it strives to analyse western concept of poet and poetics from Plato to modern critique T.S.Eliot. It endeavours to examine the importance of the both word Poet and Kavi according to the tradition. It is essential to the scholars to make the awareness regarding the word Kavi so that the purity and aim of literature never decline.