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Evolving Poetic Maturity in the Themes of Shiv K. Kumar’s Poesy

Ms. Usha Arunima and Dr. Ashish Kumar Pandey


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Abstract

Amid the post-Independence poets writing in English, the endless contribution of Shiv K. Kumar with his free poeticism, clichés, archaism, and metrical concepts sets him as a post-modernist. His multifaceted contributions as a novelist, critic, translator, dramatist, and short-story writer ensured that he lived a profoundly creative existence within the world of literature. Kumar's extensive body of work ensures that he will be remembered as a luminous presence on the literary horizon for generations to come. There are kaleidoscopic cruxes in the poems of Kumar varying from geographical, cultural, linguistic, and religious to emotional, personal, confessional, and many more. Kumar created vivid images in his poems about and on human emotions, situations, and consequences benignantly and sorrowfully making them apologies for humanity. The present paper attempts to research and re-evaluate the awe-inspiring themes of Kumar and their impacts and effects on contemporary society.

Keywords: Shiv K. Kumar, Poesy, Benignant, kaleidoscopic cruxes, apologies, motto, judicious.

1. Introduction

Give me lines or two,
in some local paper
even in the final print.
(Shiv K. Kumar, Trapfalls in the Sky, 1986:31)

Shiv K. Kumar is the kind of poet who does not want to pose any judicious or judgmental stance through his writings against the evils of society, but it becomes a natural essence in the writings of Kumar that gives away the obvious and rightful although they are most of the times blanketed with humor and irony.

Kumar’s poetry embraces the intellectual presentations dealing with ordinary concepts of society that work as salt as well as sugar in an individual’s day-to-day life. His poetry has been composed with the raw talent, skill, and impressions of great literary masters such as Bergson, Lawrence, and Eliot. The influences of these masters helped in shaping and donning Kumar’s poetry in the form of intuition, instinct, reason, humor, logic, and conscience. Kumar confines the truth and nothing but the pure, crystal truth with the flavors of innocence, logic, and honest humor in his simply framed extraordinary writings. Kumar favors pure innocence and the natural nurturing of life in his poems. He embroiders his poetry with natural images, symbols, and themes in contexts of contemporary chaos and charismatic chores. His poetic works are embedded with an assurance that intuition is the key solution and motivation for humans when they have to deal with predicaments.

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Ms. Usha Arunima, Research Scholar and
Ashish Kumar Pandey, Ph.D. (Linguistics)
Faculty, School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Babu Banarasi Das University, Lucknow
kumar16pandey@gmail.com
Orcid id: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3158-5112
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