Poetic Craft in Jayanta Mahapatra’s Poetry

Abstract

Jayanta Mahapatra is one of the great Indian English poets and his treatment of themes in his poetry as well as his poetic style makes him a prominent figure. His poetic style is lucid and precise. Use of imagery and symbols is another aspect of Mahapatra’s craftsmanship and his poetic style is highly symbolical and imagistic. His use of figure of speech such as similes and metaphors in his
poetry make them rich and prominent. The similes and metaphors are particularly plentiful, besides being very appropriate and fully serving the purpose which, of course, is either to clarify or to emphasise an idea. This research paper is an attempt to bring out Mahapatra’s poetic style used in some of his famous poems.