Taste for tomorrow by jayanta mahapatra biography in english
Jayanta mahapatra poems list
By — Subhajit Mukherjee introduction at the end of the paper , Vol. III, Issue. XXVI, March Under the leadership of Nissim Ezekiel, it broadened its vistas. Poetry became inward-looking and much more realistic. In the post-Independent poets, we can feel a radical shift in their writing—a shift from the macrocosm of the country to the microcosm of the self.
If the pre-Independence poets were identity-conscious, the post-Independence poets became identity-conscious and medium conscious, the one supplementing the other. It is now Indian in sensibility, Indian in. It is now Indian in sensibility, Indian in choice of themes and ideas, and English only in language. It is rooted in and stems from the Indian milieu and environment, culture and tradition, landscape and mindscape.
Poetry written in English today in the world has an identity, based on nationality and culture. That is why Indian English Poetry became very much culture specific.