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Re-visiting European Existentialism in Post-modern Odia poetry: A Study Through S.K.Nayak’s Soorjya Unile Raati (Night Falls When the Sun Rises )

  • Unique Paper ID: 171792
  • Volume: 11
  • Issue: 8
  • PageNo: 1019-1026
  • Abstract:
  • The effect of two consecutive wars: First World War (1914-18) and Second World War (1939-45) had tremendously impacted literature on a global sale. The word ‘modernism’ begins to define really after 1918, through it is essentially post-Darwinism. It ignited the existential query- where is the man’s place in the modern world, when religion, social stability and ethics are called into question. Of this existential concern became more vehement after Second World War and tried to dislocate literature from its axis- the actual conventional mode of expression. Besides, the emerging disciplines like anthropology, Psychology, modern science, history, politics and sociology disordered the traditional approach like- a beginning, middle and an end. In European literature, Eliot was the first to experiment with art, in conformity to the collapse of value system in western civilization- the modern world is culturally and spiritually a waste land, where people are living a kind of death amid their everyday life, inviting greatest existential question. Do I exist? Whether there is a meaning of life? Does God exist? Towards 1960, the leftist trend, along with the tone of individualism in regional odia poetry had been extinguished in Indian sub- continent giving rise to frustration, anxiety, alienation and sexual perversion in the contents of odia poetry. Towards 1950, the young odia poets influenced by the British poets established a new order, by shocking and bewildering the readers with discordant urban images, where rootlessness of human existence sandwiched with a complex, and allusive style in poetry. Guruprasad Mohanty and his followers Bhanuji Rao, Janakiballav Mohanty, Benudhar Rout, Chintamani Behera, and Ramakanta Ratha exploded the conventional mode of expression, encapsulating the fragmentation of thought and style, where man is searching his identity. They had all left by the by, without leaving behind any formidable legacies. Probably, the follower, the trend- setter and a curious, researcher on Guruprasad Mohanty’s seminal work Kalapurusha, modeled upon Eliot’s The Waste Land, Santosh Kumar Nayak, a fledgling scholar on the rock pebbles of the ancient edifice of his past masters, has of late gone to the pyramid of height in his poetic work Soorjya Uinle Raati (2006) treasuring the same echo of existentialism and alienation thrashing the old teachers in his intellectually brainstorming style. Nayak’s poetry had the search for human identity in an alienated human society, where contrary to the footprints of past writers, hope instead of anxiety, death rather than life was the solution in his inimitable style, matching the tone with the famous existentialists-Kierkegaard, Heidegger, Sartre, Camus and Nietzsche.
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  • ISSN: 2349-6002
  • Volume: 11
  • Issue: 8
  • PageNo: 1019-1026

Re-visiting European Existentialism in Post-modern Odia poetry: A Study Through S.K.Nayak’s Soorjya Unile Raati (Night Falls When the Sun Rises )

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