TIME AND CONTINUITY
Indian English
poetry and its yield after 1980, is different. It is no longer an east-west conflict.
Years after 1980 signify an entirely fresh elegiac scenario – a little
nostalgic also. A predilection for religious doctrines figures out life as a transcendental
reality while metaphysical inquiries disturb. No obvious signs regarding narrow
religious mind sadden but secular and universal qualities surface. Poetry
reveals religious, psychological, philosophical-existential identity and contemporary disquiet in amiable phrase.
Poets of seventies and eighties with strong rural background hold adequate
experience of urban life, and stressful city-woes with freshness in ennui and monotony
of urbanity frighten and drive to rational and meditative thoughts. To locate
identity and roots distresses bards as onerous past and contemporary void
ironically haunt like a lethal specter of disillusion, death and consequential
vainness.
H. S. Bhatia, O. P. Arora, T. V. Reddy, R. K. Bhushan, D. C. Chambial, Manas
Bakshi, Pashupati Jha, P. Raja, K. V. Raghupathi, Arbind Kumar Choudhury, P. Gopichand
and P. Nagasuseela are included in the present anthology. They underline poetic
characteristics of the age, and speak of man and society with understanding and
empathy.
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