Contribution of Jayanta Mahapatra

Jayanta Mahapatra is one of the eminent poets of international repute hailed from Odisha. His writings always emit local flavor and savor. In this way, the poet globalizes is own cultures and traditions which have got its universal acceptance. The socio-cultural aspects of Odisha the poet immortalizes through his poems which are generally escaped from the common man's vision. The simple language of Mahapatra's poetry contains the most complex syntactical meanings leaving the reader wanders and wonders that is his uniqueness as a poet.
Some of the eminent works are Close the Sky Ten by Ten, A Father's Hours, A Rain of Rites, Waiting, The False Start, Relationship, Door of Paper, Green Gardener, Bali(The Victim), Wings of the Past: Poems, A Time of Rising, I Can, But Why Should I Go.
Jayanta Mahapatra can be called the major voice among the second generation of the modern poets. The Sahitya Akademi Award given for the first time to an Indian English poet, commended his poetic volume "Relationship", which is an outstanding contribution for its awareness of the Indian heritage, evocative description, significant reflection, and linking of personal reminiscence with race memory.
The images of stone, temple, rain, sleep, absence, solitude, seasons, ruins, crows and kites and a host of others are worked out again and again poem after poem, thus developing into a rich legit motif of Mahapatra's poetic oeuvre.

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