This study examines the intricate connection between imagination and music in British Romantic literature, exploring how music functions both as a metaphor for and a literal impact on the literary imagination. A key component of Romanticism emphasized the ability of imagination to rise above the banal, an idea embodied in the era's engagement with music. In analyzing a variety of texts, both poetry and prose, the essay seeks to demonstrate how music was used by Romantic writers to enhance emotional resonance and surpass the limits of perception. It will examine the way music influenced narrative structures and themes, the significance of music for Romantic writers, and the limitations of Romantic imagination. The thesis asserts that in British Romantic literature, music not only represents the spirit of imagination but also actively shapes it, elevating commonplace experience into realms of transcendent experience.

Comparison is a natural tendency of human mind. Comparative literary theory focuses on two or more languages, writers, nations and cultural aspects of creative writing with an interdisciplinary comparative perspective. The scale of study of the story of human evolution, lifestyle, food, customs, culture, music, folk songs and historical development over the globe could be comparative in nature to analyse the significant trends and findings on the same.

In this paper, literary contribution of two prominent poets Dhani Ram Chatrik and Nand Lal Noorpuri representatives of modern Punjabi poetry in the first half of twentieth century will be discussed in detail. In their creative works, both provide a real picture of Punjabi life, language and culture and establish a link between the traditional and modern Punjabi poetry. Apart from this, contemporary political and economic developments are also depicted beautifully in their works. Early life and childhood of both the poets was spent in poor economic conditions. Though, both of them were born and raised in the same socio-cultural scenario, but their style, thought process and ideology was different in many ways. Chatrik's view about life is always positive throughout his poetry but Noorpuri being very depressive at times, feels life as a burden due to the financial scarcity, his personal bad habits, failures and alcoholism. But the use of Urdu, Persian metaphors, vocabulary of Majhi dialect and experimentation on the poetic form of Ghazal in their works make them unique and close to each other. Both of the poets had influence of Indian mythology and Sikh religion and both have raised a voice against contemporary political and economic movements. Many of their poems speak boldly about contemporary socio-political concerns as well. Some poems engage the readers with the lessons of true morality. Both of them talk about the economically unprivileged life of farmers and labour class depicting their hardships of earning the livelihood. Both poets have borrowed some concepts related to form and style from Sufi and Quissa literature as well. Hence, this paper will ponder the light on various aspects of the literary contribution of the selected poets in comparative perspective.

In her serminal monograph Narrative in the Anthropocene, Erin James develops the Anthropocene narrative theory on the basis of cognitive narratology and rhetorical narratology, fleshing out the reciprocal connection between the Anthropocene and narratives as records of humans writing and inhabiting worlds by reconceptualizing narrative as worldbuilding for some purpose. Under such theoretical frame, James discusses some original narrative techniques regarding time, material, and so forth. When turning to the issue of narration, she explores inconsistent “we-narration” and the “fictional you” as forms of narrative resource that aid the project of world building for environmental purposes. These narrative modes are compared by James to the world-building arrogance of the traditional omniscient narrator who implicitly forecloses a collective perspective or action. Though significantly captures the issues of environmental justice and reader immersion, James' discussion on person narrative dispises the narrative focalization hence ignoring the scale issue brought by different person narrative.

The issue of scale in the Anthropocene is primarily an epistemological problem. Because of the existence of scale effects and scale discrepancies, ecological issues may have varying causes depending on the scale of perception, and actions that seem environmentally protective at a micro level can trigger crises at regional or planetary scales. Mitchell Thomashow advocates for “scale shift,”urging individuals to transcend their scale boundaries by shifting focus from local ecosystems to broader temporal and spatial domains, enabling a deeper understanding of global environmental changes. Drawing on cognitive linguistic research on person deixis, this paper links scale shifting to DST, arguing that shifts in person and the accordingly changing narrative perspective also alter readers’psychological deictic centers. With the changing person dexis, readers are immersed in the story world, experiencing shifts in the protagonist's observational scale and adopting corresponding stances. I term this interplay between narrative person and scale changes as “deictic scale shifting.” For example, N.K. Jemisin’s “Emergency Skin” employs this strategy, blending formal aesthetics with environmental critique and a challenge to Anthropocene capitalism. Similarly, in The Fifth Season, such technique merges “you,” “I,” and “she” into a unified narrative, revealing interconnected relationships among races and objects in an environmental apocalypse. Through these case studies, this paper expands Anthropocene narrative theory, demonstrating how deictic scale shifting bridges human-scale and more-than-human phenomena.