IN THE ANGST OF THE INVISIBLE EXISTENCE: MIRRORING THE EXISTENTIAL DILEMMA USING BODILY METAPHORS IN THE SELECTED POEMS OF JAYANTA MAHAPATRA AND KEKI N DARUWALLA

Indian English poetry since the culmination of colonial phase took a decisive and deliberately marked shift from slavish imitation romantic writers like Keats, Byron, Shelly, Wordsworth to more progressive experimental style with methodical thematic innovativeness. It was known as post-independence which heralded arrival new way composing poems an indigenous ‘Indianness’ essence, sabotaging strong clutches its colonizer’s mother tongue. Some greatest contributors include Nissim Ezekiel, Dom Moraes, P. Lal, Adil Jussawalla, A. K. Ramanujan, R. Parthasarathy, Gieve Patel, Arvind Mehrotra, Pritish Nandy, Kamala Das, N. Daruwalla, Shiv Kumar, Jayanta Mahapatra, Meena Alexander, Agha Shahid Ali, Vikram Seth, Manohar Shetty, etc. A large section produced by these avant-garde based on raw human experiences expressions overtones psychoanalysis, existentialism, surrealism, Another major experimentation conducted modern poets incorporation symbols metaphors, made allusive reference unvoiced pathos survival guilt man. With emergent uncertainties disillusionment scenario, themes identity crisis, alienation, feminist concerns, Marxism, etc were projected close allies existential concerns era. Using Foucault’s discourse society ‘subject’ ‘power’ in molding individual’s self, present study marks attempt demonstrate how two selected Mahapatra Keki N Daruwalla try reflect their post-colonial ‘angst’ meticulously employing differently disabled bodily metaphors.