Abstract: Dr. Vihang Ashok kumar Naik’s personality has adored with two best titles one is ‘bilingual poet’ who has written poems in Gujrati and English languages and other is the best translators who has translated Gujrati poems into English. His poetic expression has found place in his four major works namely; Poetry Manifesto: New and Selected Poems (2010), Making A Poem (2004), City Times And Other Poems (1993). And his Gujrati work is jeevangeet (2001). All these collections are fine compendium of his profound ideas, expressed by him philosophically and ironically. In his making a Poem he described his concept of poetry and the process of making poetry and a poet’s relation with his poem. Poetry Manifesto: New And Selected Poems (2010) shows that he has highly influenced by Indian philosophy. Poems in this book imbued with religious, social, economic, political and sometimes with personal themes. So a theme of multi-aspects of life can be seen is his poetry. The aim of present paper is to focus on Naik’s notions about poet and poetry making. An attempt also will be made to highlight different themes adopted by him in his poetry. The poetic sensibility he has got is the demand of modern kaleidoscopic society in India.
Keywords: Vihang A. Naik, poetic sensibility, poetic creation, making a poem, the poet, Indian philosophy, poetry manifesto, Multi-coloured theme, humanistic approach, free verse.
Title: Poetry of Vihang A. Naik: A Study of Poetic Creation and Theme of Multi-Aspects of Contemporary Life
Author: Durga patva
International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research
ISSN 2348-3156 (Print), ISSN 2348-3164 (online)
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