Volume : VII, Issue : I, January - 2018

Background to Indian English Poetry: An Overview

Bojja Pranathi Shubhasri

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Indian Poetry in English has evolved from spirituality to specificity as its major preoccupation and concern. If we look at pre independence poetry, we meet the stalwart figures of Tagore, Sri Aurobindo and the like who despite their deep patriotic concerns wrote poems evincing their focus on the matters of soul, God or ultimate truth. These poets were very close to the spirit and tradition of Vivekananda and Ram Tirtha who were in the thick of the India awakening in the renaissance period through forging an identity and unity not only within them but also between East and West cultures. The poetry of Sarojini Naidu and Tagore although drew heavily from the Indian scenes was suffused with romanticism to the extent of making it abstract to a large sense. During the post–independence period, as a result of the decolonization or at least an attempt at it, Indian poetry wore a different and fresh face with the coming of Nissim Ezekiel, Ramanujan, Kamala Das to name a few on the scene. These poets ushered in a total radicalization on the issues of language and content. Giving up old traditional rhyme, gush of romantic similes, rhetoric and high sounding and sweeping imagery, the shift could be felt in the concretization of thoughts and feelings expressed in a concrete style. Specificity of location and theme on the basis of one’s cultural and historical reality has made the poetry of present day generation more readable and relevant. The present paper attempts to analyse the Indian English Poetry in ief.

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Bojja Pranathi Shubhasri, Background to Indian English Poetry: An Overview, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH : Volume-7 | Issue-1 | January-2018

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