Jayanta Mahapatra’s Poetry : A Mythic Mirage of Social Introspection on the Bedrock of Reality

Jayanta Mahapatra’s Poetry : A Mythic Mirage of Social Introspection on the Bedrock of Reality

Mr. Subho Ghosh

Visiting Professor of English, Guru Nanak Institute of Technology, West Bengal, India

Abstract: Jayanta Mahapatra’s impregnation of socio-cultural backdrops that he discerns in his locale fetches him face to face with history and myth when his “self” is connoted in the act of attention. The intimacies amid the self and reality - the reality that flees but comprises self and culture form the bedrock of Mahapatra’s poetry. To him, it is the investigation of myths and it is leashed with the world of art and sculpture. He keeps on his quest for a divine spirit and for charm in the relationship between man and man, and God and God, men and sculptured art. Mahapatra holds forth to have the condemnation that tradition is and continuance, it is entirety and one has to fathom the present in terms of the past and the past in terms of the present. There is a dense token of introspection in his poetry. The elementary poetry of Mahapatra is a satiric repercussion on past and current racial, religious, cultural, and societal life. The poet's attempt to extract meaning from his emotional and intellectual existence is often shown in Oriya culture. He exercises the Oriya life caught in the current of time as the impulsive millstone for his poetry.

Keywords: Indian culture, social introspection, poetry, sensibility, self-exploration, discovery