Representation of Human Predicaments in the Poems of Jayanta Mahapatra: An Analysis

Jayanta Mahapatra is one of the greatest poets in India who tries to express his own personal experiences through his poetic artistry. He expresses a sort of distraught and catastrophe that has been experienced by the entire Indian society of his generation. The human predicament and inertia affected the psychic state of people who witnessed many unpleasant events at that age in the country. Mahapatra’s poems are the platforms for expressing human predicaments and adversities that have been passed through by the people of the contemporary society. He illustrated the social and political issues in India through his poems in which the contemporary social crises and cynicism are the major themes. The poems of Mahapatra reflect the life that he experienced in this age of social inequalities. He is desperately concerned about the Indian society, particularly in the state of Odisha, and the predicaments of Indian people in such a period of time. His poems are the reflection of the agony and distressed feelings of many people who were the victims of monotonous, hopeless, and desolated life.  This article tries to explore the poetic artistry of Jayanta Mahapatra that is used for expressing current social issues and predicaments of the human beings whom he witnessed in and around his homeland.