Poeticizing Love: Reliving the Ethics and Aesthetics of Odia-English Love Poetry

Love is the finest of all motifs of poetry. No poetry can attain perfection and sublimity without vindications as well as visitations of love. It is the azure the very touch of which enlivens the idioms of poetry. Indian-English poetry has never sealed its boundaries to keep the angelic spirit of love off from its habitations. On the contrary, it has held its doors wide open to felicitate love at its thresholds. The prime objective of this paper is to shed some critical lights on the trajectory of love and its nuances as they have figured in the Odia-English poetry. While almost all the poets in the Parthenon of Indian-English poetry have been more or less accommodative to love, it is Bibhu Padhi and Dilip Naik who have been the most generous one in rehabilitating love at the habitations of their words. The spotlight has been on love as one seminal motif of the province of poetry under analysis. This paper has endeavoured to map out the aesthetics and ethics of love as depicted in the poetry of the Indian-English poets in general and Bibhu Padhi and Dilip Naik in particular.