Life Signs †Poem and Summary By Mahapatra Essay

LIFE SIGNSViolence the twenty-four hour periodtime dims. When I open and shut my oral fissure the darkness chokes inside. The sad light pushes against a bullock-cart-drivers whip which rests in a corner of the corridor, safe from the black constrict of dragging ribs. a country natural solar eclipse It was the drawn-out exclaim of twenty-four hour period that left behind no echo, day that became meek as a frightened child. A banner of picket human skin fluttered on hook of the temple of Jagannath the vase a monsoon day fable The fable at the offset of the monsoon choes alone, like a bell resonance in a temple distant from home. in the fields of desolate strain captive air of chandipur on sea lost children of America dead river liveliness signs grand start out again one day walking by the river. Jayant Mahapatra Summary of flavor Signs Life signs is the title poem of the flock Life Signs.The father-son relationship has been explored quite extensively and intensively i n Indian English poetry, by Ramanujan, Parthasarathy, Shiv. K. Kumar and others and overprotect poems have manufacture even a sub-genre of Indian rime in English. Life Signs captures the central preoccupation of Mahapatras poetry, the irrevocable influence of the Father (by extension, the hoary tradition of the land) and the anxiety of the son-persona (the modernist, rationalist, disbeliever poet, by extension) to be freed of it Structurally, the poem is a loosely connected set of redolent signs rather than a system and address and such a poem with geological fault metaphors whitethorn challenge neat reading yet it stern have a great power to convey a highly complex experience and can acquire haunting beauty (G. N. Devy). The cows can be read as a companion poem.11. 1- 2 Whats in my a blunt account of the son-personas in ability to fill the beliefs of the father 11. 3-5 a whizz of expiry caused by separation between father and son described in wrong of the flowing r iver the image of flow may also imply the passage of a major category in Mahapatras vision. 11. 10 an associative cluster of signs sunbathe, kites and clouds evoking the sense of agedness of the traditions, which haunts him. 1. 15 the odour another image evoking the sense of diminution 11. 19-20 come to rest typical Mahapatran obscurities which be the interpreters despair 11. 23- 24 a conflict between the traditionalistic beliefs and the rationalist skepticism of those beliefs- 11. 23- 24 the sense of loss and a discovery of a strange wisdom.