Ironic Subversion in L P Devkota’s “The Illiterate”

This paper attempts to explore how L P Devkota, in his poem “The Illiterate”, subverts the conventionally established notion that the literate people are civilized whereas the illiterate are uncivilized. It also shows Devkota‟s effort to dismantle the hypocrisies, pomposities, arrogance, follies, fopperies, atrocities, discriminatory attitudes and calculating thoughts of the so-called literate people with the motive of establishing a harmonious society through education based on morality, humanity and equality first to the literate.