Illusions to Disillusions

The first page of this monograph introduces the reader to the lyricist and poet Mahagama Sekera (1929–76). Sekera argued that a test of a good song was to take away the music and see whether the lyrics could stand on their own as a piece of literature. In this final chapter I focus on the stylistic...

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Zusammenfassung:	The first page of this monograph introduces the reader to the lyricist and poet Mahagama Sekera (1929–76). Sekera argued that a test of a good song was to take away the music and see whether the lyrics could stand on their own as a piece of literature. In this final chapter I focus on the stylistic volte-face of Sekera and thus organize the chapter into two sections. Section 1 investigates song and poetry that Sekera published between 1958 and 1963. The objective of this section is to reveal how Sekera wrote song and verse to transport Sinhalese readers to