Ethos of Orissa Landscape and Indian Sensibility In The Poems of Jayanta Mahapatra

Abstract

Jayanta Mahapatra is one of the rising stars on the firmament of this species of Indian poetry. His works is of such intrinsic worth that he has already come to be regarded as the forth great poet in India. His ironic treatment with superb use of imagery with reference- to some of the more representative poems in the perspective of his commitment to a personal vision embedded in the materials practices, values of Oriya culture and rituals to some people of India. This paper attempts at the study of socio-political ethos of his native place, the images of locale, the social injustices that embodies the Oriya consciousness. The enormous contribution to the growth of Indian poetry in English , although he sporadically ventured in the realms of fiction; he will be remembered primarily for his poetry, his use of irony, imagery on love, sex, rituals and human misery voicing democratic mode.