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The Mechanics of Time in Confrontation with the Poet and the Physicist in Jayanta Mahapatra’s Poetry

Abstract—A physicist in a ceaseless confrontation with the mysterious cycles of time beyond the life’s mortal periphery, Jayanta Mahapatra, as also a poet, experiments with their mechanics which are influenced by both his profession and his Christian-Hindu faith. He gleans his fragmented self that is clustered in the painful absence beyond, behind him. Collecting the self from memories in a clockwise introspection in terms of circular motion of time and trying to understand it well in terms of Alexander Pope’s view, “know then thyself presume not God to scan” [1] (Griffin 1978: 152), Jayanta Mahapatra searches for a meaning in human existence with the consciousness of Einstein’s words “A spirit is manifest in the laws of universe.” [2] (Schneider 2013: 9). A major contemporary experimental voice in Indian English Literature, Mahapatra represents India on the international threshold with a native fragrance in the portrayal of every fragment of his indigenous landscape and language. The dual personality in him examines its self through the linear and circular motions of time. In the ubiquitous vacillation in his poetry between the

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Jayanta Mahapatra

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Introduction

Jayanta Mahapatra (1928 - present) is a well-known Indian English poet of the modern era. As a poet, he is very sensitive, and his poems deal with a wide range of emotions, with the majority of his poetry centred on the man-woman relationship.

In his poem, one can feel the presence of Orissa. In 1981, Mahapatra became the first Indian English poet to get the Sahitya Academi Award.

Family

Lemuel Mahapatra was his father, and Sudhansa Mahapatra was his mother. He married Jotsana Mahapathra, a literature student who encouraged him to create poetry.

Early Life and Education

Mahapatra attended Stewart School in Cuttack, Odisha, after being born into a wealthy Odia-Christian family. He earned his master's degree in physics from Patna University in Bihar, India. In 1949, he began his academic career as a physics lecturer. He taught Physics at several government colleges in Odisha, including Gangadhar Meher College in Sambalpur, B.J.B College in Bhubaneswar, Fakir Mohan College in Balasore, and Ravenshaw College in Cuttack.

He retired from his government employment as a Reader in Physics in 1986 after superannuating at Ravenshaw College, Cuttack (now Ravenshaw University). He began his writing career quite late, in the late

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Jayanta Mahapatra’s Casual Descent : An Ecocritical Study

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