Abstract

Vihang A.Naik’s poems speak about a writer’s consciousness for making an autonomous creation that incorporates the diverse aspects of modern life. His creations are based on the construction of language that largely points to the culture of modern society. We find him continuing his intentions about his claim as the spokesperson of a modern period. His meanings contradict the expected often deliberately alienating the reader and denounces cultural repression that broods on the human condition in modern society. He regards both art and life by mixing both in a magic realism of multiple ending with determinate meaning. His poems are vibrant with impulsiveness and imagination and his poetry is simple with a visionary theme of poetic creation where his eye understood the privilege of seeing into the meaning of things that would come naturally in life and his mind might possess the happy innocence and joy of childhood. Beauty and joy indeed were found to be the fundamental elements in his natural sensitiveness to the agony of suffering humanity in modern life. He believes in the natural simplicity of the expression. He observes life minutely and presents his experiences in his writings in a convincing manner. His poetry is a chronicle of human conditions in so many vicissitudes of life with all its misery, sufferings, disappointments and wretchedness. His exposure to the adverse human experiences deepened his human feelings and sharpened his mind to study human life and situation. His poetry is based on the realistic conception or views of life and it has the drab realism of the environment relating to the futility and meaninglessness of human life in modern technological society that shows his uniqueness as a poet of an impending age of poetic greatness. Therefore, this paper will mainly focus on his vision of life and the process of poetic creation shedding the light on the issues of modern life common to the world in his poetry