Simply because of the sheer excellence in choosing the most appropriate words to express his thoughts and the adroitness and ease with which he approached English language, one would often wonder whether A. K. Ramanujan could outdo even the native speakers. The focus of the present paper is to highlight into the amazingly brilliant mastery and flair of English language and the prodigious poetic creativity possessed by this great genius from India and to pinpoint how A. K. Ramanujan was bent on retelling the Indian Folktales to the whole wide world by dovetailing his language flair and poetic imagination together. The most amazing fact about A. K. Ramanujan is that he not only remained content with looking for the poetics of the tales, but he also literally poetized some of the most precious folktales, legends and myths. This will be the core of this paper and this will be achieved by analysing six of his poems and bringing out the special nuances of his English Language.
See Full PDF See Full PDFA.K Ramanujan uses myths, legends and rituals to varied use in his poetry. By doing so, he enriches the texture of his poetry. Myths, in particular, help him contrast the ideal and the actual, and project the complexities of life. By the use of irony and mocking tone, however, he underlines the sterility of myth in the contemporary world of senses. Unlike traditional poets, he does not believe in the life-affirming value of myths and legends, though he shows his awareness of their symbolic value and meaning. His knowledge of Indian myths and folklore is amazing. And he makes use of myths and folklore as themes in his poetry. And it is in this aspect that his poetry conforms to the norm of post-colonial literature.
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is a leading poet of Indian English literature. He is well known globally for his excellent and special depiction of Indian sensibilities drawn from Indian life and culture. Three poems namely 'The Strider' 'Anxiety' and On the Death of Poem' have been analyzed in this paper in the light of the theory of deconstruction what shows that the Indian sensibilities is not the single string of tradition, rather it has many layers of meaning depending on the local and global perspective.
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Critical Evaluation of Contemporary Indian Poetry in English. Ed. K.V. Dominic. New Delhi”Access,Authors Press ISBN 978-81-921254-3-5
A.K.Ramanujan is a well noted expatriate poet of twentieth century who was brought up in a multilingual environment and mastered the languages like Tamil, Kannada, Telugu, Sanskrit and English. He was a scholar, philologist, folklorist, translator, poet and playwright who published the works of classical and modern interests. His contribution to the South Asian studies has been highly acclaimed in various American Universities. He received the Padmasri Award from the Government of India in 1976 and also the recipient of Mac Arthur Fellowship in 1983. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1990. He was successful in combining the native tradition with English language. Though he was influenced by the western life style, he could not withdraw himself from the traditions of Hinduism and its cultural values. Ramanujan’s four volumes of poetry are; The Striders (1966) Relations (1977) Second Sight (1986) The Collected Poems (1995). After his sudden demise in 1993, his wife and friends published his The Uncollected Poems in 1995. Later on The Uncollected Essays of A .K. Ramanujan was published in 1999. His themes of poetry revolve around family, society, culture, religion and the institution of marriage.
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NEW MAN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MULTIDISCIPLINARY STUDIES (ISSN: 2348-1390)
Indian English Poetry forms a major chunk of common wealth poetry. It is known for its originality and authenticity. C. D. Narasimhaiah classifies the Indian poets in English before Independence into two groups. “neo-Symbolisty” and “neo-modernists” The former group of poets dives deep into mysticism and the vision of the latter group of poets is coloured by humanism. C. D. Narasimhaiah glorifies Toru Dutt, Sarojini Naidu and Sri Aurobindo in his well – known book. Post-Independence Indian English poetry is genuine because it is deeply felt and addressed to the whole community and Indian situations form a vital part of it. Born into a well to do family in Mysore in 1929, A. K. Ramanujan, along with Ezekiel and Kamala Das helped to give Indian English Poetry “a local habitation and a name”.
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Journal of English Language and Literature
The proposed paper will attempt at making a close scrutiny of A.K.Ramanujan’s poems ‘Snakes’, ‘A poem on particulars’, and ‘Small-scale reflections on a great house’, in the light of postcolonialism . Though many attempts have already been made at highlighting postcolonial and postmodern traits, in many Indian poems in English, they have not fore grounded the points of deviation, while applying these theories to Indian poems written in English. The present paper will take up the use of the English language and projection of macrocosmic self (nation) through the microcosmic self (family) for analysis and demonstrate how A.K.Ramanujan’s poems mentioned above can be seen as exemplifying them in clear-cut as well as concrete terms. Besides showing the scope for interpreting these three poems from this perspective, the proposed paper also argues that it is the i.
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A.K. Ramanujan is a leading poet of Indian English literature.He is well known globally for his excellent and special depiction of Indian sensibilities drawn from Indian life and culture.Three poems namely 'The Strider',' Anxiety' and On the Death of Poem' have been analysed in this paper in the light of the theory of deconstruction what shows that the Indian sensibilities is not the the single string of tradition,rather it has many layers of meaning depending on the local and global perspective.
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Bharatiya Prajna: an Interdisciplinary Journal of Indian Studies
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