“WHO SAYS LANGUAGE NEEDS WORDS?”- NEWNESS AND DIFFERENCE IN THE SELECTED WORKS OF K. SATCHIDANANDAN.

Abstract

Like Federico Garcia Lorca’s duende or what Johann Wolfgang von Goethe traces in Paganini’s art, Poetry too has its own epiphanic moments which always tend to dislodge any pre-defined idea of epistemology. Modern Indian English Poetry, especially as practiced by K. Satchidanadan, does not deal with the mere replication of established truths. Instead, it becomes a site of collective social consciousness without being at all subjective. For Satchidanadan, poetry cannot be a rigid form of art rather the true function of poetry lies in saying the unsaid, naming the nameless and offering voice to the voiceless. The present paper shows how the poetic worldview of K. Satchidanandan which is free from any form of anachronism drive his readers till they share the poet’s response to human existence. In the poetic oeuvre of Satchidanadan, one can hear a new poetic voice emitted out of decentralization and cultural struggles. The present paper also aims at showing the use of quotidian and unornamented language in Satchidanandan’s poetry which makes it a poetics with/of newness and difference.