A Preview of Indian English Poetry
Journal Title: Notions A Journal of English Literature - Year 2017, Vol 0, Issue 4
Abstract
Indian English Poetry has its root in Derojio’sFakir of Jangheera and Other Poems, inspiring a number of Indians for English language and literature. Indian English poetry has traversed a long distance since 1800 through the ups and downs of the pre and post independence phases. Nissim Ezekiel is the first modern Indian English poet guiding and inspiring numerous young poets and writers about Indian life and ethos. Though the genuineness and the authenticity of Indian English poetry is a contentious issue, yet Indian poets have been very successful to come across the world map through the baffling and confusing phases. Ironically, English education given to the Indians by the colonial governments proved very fruitful, making the Indians enlightened and free from ignorance and superstitions. Raja Ram Mohan Rai is a great link in this context, who made many reforms in Indian life. Constant experimentations by many poets created a unique Indian style, form and expression as the pre and post independence eras are marked a self-definition and self-identity of Indian English poetry. In spite of the influences of the western concepts, Indian poets give native hues to their poetry and encounter with the British on various fronts gave Indians impetus to fight for identity, which ultimately emerged as Indian English literature, however, the British influence on Indian writer is a significant in cultural, social and religious domains. Macauley was incorrect to subjugate Indians as in about 150 years Indian English knowing population made English language as a medium of creative expression of diverse cultural, religious and social ethos.
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Dr. Santosh Thakur
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