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Essay / Modern Indian English Poetry: An Overview - 1910
Poetry has always been the most popular genre in literature and the language of poetry is said to exist when there was no language. The language of poetry delves deep into sensation, which is why it is defined as the spontaneous overflow of emotions and actions recalled in tranquility. Modern Indian poetry in English can be defined as poetry written/published from 1947 (the year India gained independence from British rule), by poets of Indian origin, born or settled outside from India, writing in English. After the fall of the colonial empire, a new literature from the colonized countries emerged, depicting the local sensibility and adding the local spices and colors in terms of indigenous cultural discourse on the map of world literature. Historically, if we see that the English language still has no regional basis in India, except in some North Eastern and Southern states where it is used as a link language, it is slowly and surely becoming synonymous with the language vernacular. Despite its enormous growth in the education and economic sectors, it remains one of the minority languages in India, spoken by only 4% of the population. Despite continued pressure from nationalists, the English language remains at the heart of Indian society. Today, the English language has acquired the status of the language of governance and communication and therefore continues to play a very important role in national decision-making. It was Macaulay's 'Minute on Indian Education' which had a fundamental and formative influence on the academic atmosphere in India. Although his intention to make people "Indian in blood and color, but English in taste, opinions, morals and intellect" proved partly true, the decision to introduce...... middle of paper... ...printed.8. In an interview with Imtiaz and Anil Dharker, Nissim Ezekiel reminisced. Ed. Havovi Anklesaria. New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi, 2008, p. 46)9. www.literary-articles.com/2013_11_01_archive.html10. Kamala Das, “The Descendants”, Calcutta; Writers' Workshop 1967.11. Kamala Das “The Old Polyhouse and Other Poems”, Madras; Orient Longman 197312. Kamla Das, Summer in Calcutta, Everest Press New Delhi. P.1013. This is Bijay Kumar. “Post-1960 Indian English Poetry and the Creation of the Indian English Idiom.” Indian English Literature Since Independence. Ed. K.Ayyappa Paniker. New Delhi: Indian Association for English Studies, 1991. 115-23. Print14. Surjit S. Dulai, “First and Only Sight: The Center and Circles of AKRamanujan's Poetry,” Journal of South Asian Literature, 24.2 (1989), p.16015. Dr. Iyengar.SRK: Indian Writing in English, New Delhi, 1983, p04.