Poetcrit
Current Volume: 37 (2024 )
ISSN: 0970-2830
Periodicity: Half-Yearly
Month(s) of Publication: January & July
Subject: Language & Literature
DOI: https://doi.org/10.32381/POET
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Exploration of Humanistic Insight in the Poetry of Jayanta Mahapatra
By : Mrinal Kanti Das
Page No: 57-63
Abstract
Literature is packed with the instances of outstanding humanistic insights. Whether Indian writing in English or other types, the arrival of post-structuralism and postmodern era, right from the late 1960s and 1970s of the last century to these days of early twenty-first century, are only numerous factors of humanism. These humanism and human concerns can be explored much in Jayanta Mahapatra’s poetry. Like a true humanist, he tries to review the truth by placing himself in the midst of the ruins of the temples, traditions, rites, rituals, superstitions, beliefs and the other side of modern life and recording his responses to it. His poetry reads like a story submerged with a never-ending concern and sympathy for humanity. He takes people into so much assurance that he never doubts their aptitude to convert them from their inexorable humanity.
Author :
Mrinal Kanti Das
Ph.D. Scholar, Ranchi University (Reg. No-134378/18), Contact: AtMahammadpur (Behind Life & Light School), P.O.-Belda, Dist-Paschim Medinipur (WB) – 721424.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.32381/POET.2020.33.02.7