The chiaroscuro of creative tension A study of select poems of A K Ramanujan

Abstract

Poetry is like a banyan tree which though being always stable at its own place searches endlessly with its branches and quests incessantly around with its roots only to turn ultimately back to itself Ramanujans creative stance is precisely Indian which accepts the past without glorifying it and mocking at it without newlinedisowning it The present study titled The Chiaroscuro of Creative Tension A newlineStudy of Select Poems of A K Ramanujan articulates the same Subjectivism newlinecharacterizes Ramanujans work for it is through this device he understands his newlinesubject which ultimately facilitates him to comprehend the predicament of human newlinecondition So the creative tension between expressing the subjective self and the newlineneed to transform it or depersonalize it is always in a state of flux with an outcome newlinethat polarities of cultures languages men and manners are inevitable and one has newlineto learn the fact that wisdom lies not in floating against the currents of water but in newlinefloating along with the water The cultural sociological psychological and philosophical observations as approaches or methodology highlight the study The findings of the study are the process of losing and finding ones self amid the inevitable flux of time and cultures would ultimately enable one to accept things as they are The scope for further research is also indicated in the study