Urban Life through Moments of Poetry: A Probe into Sarathchandra Walpola’s Es Dolahak Haya Widihak

found in the city.He appears to have responded to the peculiar appeal in city life with its dreary, mundane existence with its joys and sorrows, the beauty and the crudeness, as inherent to humankind.Suffering is a fundamental sensation to humanity that pervades life in both the village and the city alike.In comparison with life in the village, there may be more corruption and hypocrisy in the city.It may not have the scenic beauty of the village.It is this life of the city that Walpola portrays in his anthology. Review MethodTextual analysis has been employed as the key method in reviewing this collection of poetry, while archival research in the form of published biographies of, and interviews with, the author, have been used to a moderate extent.By using these methods, the present review intends to make a nuanced interpretation of the entries in the text, and thereby to make an attempt to add to the understanding of the impact of the text as a whole.