tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7763186784406574401.post664639972406407890..comments2023-11-03T17:57:50.923+05:30Comments on English Literature: Early Poetry: MahapatraKashyap Deepakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05724719354478570994noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7763186784406574401.post-59044008707881341402014-07-04T08:43:28.973+05:302014-07-04T08:43:28.973+05:30Song of The River
There is no song of India
Word... <br /> Song of The River<br /><br />There is no song of India<br /><br />Words<br />of the stone<br />lie across the dead valleys in a trance<br /><br />A sacred river grows silently in my mind<br />The rhythm of dark waters only comes and goes<br />(Waiting, Samkaleen Prakashan, New Delhi, p.21)<br /><br />Song of The River as a poem is just like Alfred Lord Tennyson's The Brook.Bijay Kant Dubeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13357653883188578925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7763186784406574401.post-49870962643423094532014-05-09T16:26:45.754+05:302014-05-09T16:26:45.754+05:30‘Svayamvara and Other Poems’ as a collection of po...‘Svayamvara and Other Poems’ as a collection of poems made a way after Close the Sky, Ten by Ten from Writers Workshop, Calcutta in 1971 when Jayanta Mahapatra had been a teacher of physics traching at Ravenshaw College, Cuttack. Though the book is no variation from his as usual style, it is essential to record as for his growth and development as a poet. We do not know if the editors pick up Bijay Kant Dubeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13357653883188578925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7763186784406574401.post-30465088846402449352014-05-07T22:48:46.114+05:302014-05-07T22:48:46.114+05:30A catalogue of his books may furnish with more det...A catalogue of his books may furnish with more details:<br /><br />Close the Sky, Ten by Ten, Dialogue Publication, Calcutta,1971, Svayamvara and Other Poems, Writers Workshop, Calcutta, 1971, A Father’s Hours, United Writers, Calcutta, 1976, A Rain of Rites, University of Georgia Press, Athens (USA), 1976, Waiting, Samkaleen Prakashan, New Delhi, 1979, The False Start, Clearing House, Bombay, Bijay Kant Dubeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13357653883188578925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7763186784406574401.post-50477907993918620272014-05-07T22:36:52.921+05:302014-05-07T22:36:52.921+05:30As a poet, he is mythical, imagistic, symbolical, ...As a poet, he is mythical, imagistic, symbolical, mystical, artistic and bodily too when he talks of the twitches of the intriguing body and man-woman relationship envisaged on the walls of the Konark sun-temple and the carvings on it, the erotic sculptures in sex, love, romance and relationship, rounding about the Indian philosophy of dharma, artha, kama and moksha. Something of the man and his Bijay Kant Dubeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13357653883188578925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7763186784406574401.post-64074779025965905592014-05-07T22:35:38.673+05:302014-05-07T22:35:38.673+05:30Nothing is what it seems to be and what it seems t...Nothing is what it seems to be and what it seems to be is nothing in respect of Jayanta Mahapatra and his poetry. Just the pencilled images, silhouetted, sketched and drawn are the things of his portrayal. To pick up Shakespearean and Hardyian terms to state it, men as walking shadows and puppets into the hands of destiny are some of the points; purviews of his depiction. His poems are just for Bijay Kant Dubeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13357653883188578925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7763186784406574401.post-91961755468576822262014-05-07T22:33:08.336+05:302014-05-07T22:33:08.336+05:30Jayanta Mahapatra as a poet is a dreamer, a vision...Jayanta Mahapatra as a poet is a dreamer, a visionary, a philosopher and a thinker apart from being mythico-historical, existential, nihilistic and absurd. The physics departmental stuffs are the things of his deliberation. If physics be his subject, how to expect for something different from, how to negate the influence of astrophysics together with that, which one can come to feel it Bijay Kant Dubeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13357653883188578925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7763186784406574401.post-85667627161548162972014-05-07T08:08:52.006+05:302014-05-07T08:08:52.006+05:30Jayanta Mahapatra when he started writing verses i...Jayanta Mahapatra when he started writing verses in English just wrote down the imagistic lines which took the shapes of smaller poems no doubt, but the meaning was not in them nor could it be found and it is also a fact that this also remains a specialty of his his poems that these cannot be annotated even now and it may be his so-called obscurity.Whatever be that he has not written for meaning&Bijay Kant Dubeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13357653883188578925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7763186784406574401.post-64327245911650765782014-04-26T14:41:31.299+05:302014-04-26T14:41:31.299+05:30Jayanta Mahapatra as a poet is first of all a myth...Jayanta Mahapatra as a poet is first of all a myth-maker; an imagist of a high order taking the visionary glides.Sitting by the door, he dreams to dwell far. Depicted against the backdrop of the mythico-historical background, he continues to evade us with his escapades and flights of imagination, bringing poetry closer to physics, sociology, museumlogy, art and architecture. Apart from being Bijay Kant Dubeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13357653883188578925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7763186784406574401.post-10187274566217093792013-03-09T08:25:20.020+05:302013-03-09T08:25:20.020+05:30I am an adept of Poet Jayant Mahapatra & value...I am an adept of Poet Jayant Mahapatra & value him as a Father figure .A great Indo Anglican Poet from the East.My thousand salutations to him.<br />....DEshraj>.....+<br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01175771871186184713noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7763186784406574401.post-668514079344581502013-03-09T08:24:19.720+05:302013-03-09T08:24:19.720+05:30I am an adept of Poet Jayant Mahapatra & value...I am an adept of Poet Jayant Mahapatra & value him as a Father figure .A great Indo Anglican Poet from the East.My thousand salutations to him.<br />....DEshraj>.....+<br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01175771871186184713noreply@blogger.com