Abstract:
The objective of this study was to investigate the different life perspectives and the aesthetic features of "THANG CHAKRA," Contemporary Poetry Literary Masterpiece by Siwagarn Patoommasoot. The four-part literary which included 45 subsections was analysed through the lens of in-text implication, beyond-text implication, and the concept of literary criticism. The findings revealed that there were three characteristics of the messages which reflected the different life perspectivesindividual, social, and paranormal. First, the individual characteristic could be categorised into two groups which were a) the independent including living things (i.e. people, animals, and plants) and non-living things (i.e. natural and manmade entities), and b) the interdependent covering both natural and manmade existences. This individual characteristic of the message was the multifaceted meaning that reflected various relationships of distinct influences, the inducement of social value under capitalism, authoritarianism, or even deeply rooted traditions and cultures in the local communities. Secondly, the social characteristic could be categorised into four groups referring family, society, nation, and world. The author delivered social problems including the family issues caused by misunderstandings and indiscrimination, the shifting society, the influx of materialism, capitalism, patronage politics, the authoritarianism instead of democracy, the non-develop thinking education, and the early global conflicts which have been ignored. And lastly, the paranormal characteristic could be categorised into two groups which were a) the concrete (i.e. phantoms, and angels), and b) the abstract (i.e. religions, mantras, beliefs, and rituals). The paranormal characteristic revealed the multifaceted meaning in terms of craze, delusion, dependence on illusion, and the surrender to fate. Beliefs and rituals were expressed sarcastically to emphasise the importance of truth and presence, rather than improvable subjects. Collectively, it was found that these three characteristicsindividual, social, and paranormalwere closely linked and intertwined. The results suggested that there were four perspectives of the aesthetic featuresrhymes, puns, semantics, and prosody. First, the aesthetic features of rhymes involved consonants, vowels, and tones. Secondly, the aesthetic features of puns concerned repetitions, synonyms, homophones, and dead syllable endings. Thirdly, the aesthetic features of semantics included figurative speeches, emotions, and styles. Lastly, the aesthetic features of prosody referred to the kinds of poetry, traditional Thai folk songs, fonts punctuation, and orthography. All of the four aesthetic features showed that the author's use of aesthetic features were various, brilliant, and effective