LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 13 : 2 February 2013
ISSN 1930-2940

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Jayanta Mahapatra: A Poet of Social-Cultural Concerns

Mukul Kumar Sharma, M.A. (English), M.Phil., Ph.D. Candidate
Sanjit Mishra, Ph.D.

Abstract

Jayanta Mahaptra has made a significant contribution in enriching the Indian Poetry in English with an innovative use of Indian themes and contemporary idiom in his poetry. Originally hailing from Orissa and spending his whole life in and around a typically rich mythological background of Cuttack, he steps beyond the physical confines of regions in his treatment of people’s pleasure and pain in his poetry which is deeply tinged with an unusual awareness of the surrounding social and cultural realities. This portrayal of human situation forms an integral part of his poetry thus taking into account almost all the prevailing grievances of humans in general- and of Indians in particular- such as poverty, corruption, crime, lack of communal harmony, social unrest, grass-roots level realities of common man along with his symbolic competence. The present paper attempts to throw light on Mahapatra as a poet of universal socio-cultural concerns.

Jayanta Mahapatra’s Works

Jayanta Mahapatra took up writing poetry in 1971 when the publication of his first book of verse, Close the Sky, Ten by Ten followed by other volumes in quick succession. His poetic oeuvre includes Swayamvara and Other Poems (1971), A Father’s Hours (1976), A Rain of Rites (1976), Waiting (1976), The False Start (1980), Relationship (1980), Life Signs (1983), Dispossessed Nests (1986), Selected Poems (1987), Burden of Waves and Fruit (1988), Temple (1989), A Whiteness of Bone (1992), Shadow Space (1997), Bare Face (2000), Random Descent (2005) and the more recent one The Lie of Dawns (2009). This enumeration and nomenclature suggests a development of his sensibility as well as his thematic concerns along with indicating a major shift in his poetry.

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Mukul Kumar Sharma, M.A. (English), M.Phil., Ph.D. Candidate
Research Scholar, English
University of Rajasthan
Jaipur
Rajasthan
India
english.mukul@gmail.com

Sanjit Mishra, Ph. D.
Assistant Professor of English
Indian Institute of Technology
Roorkee 247001
Uttarakhand
India
sanjitmishra2001@yahoo.com
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