International Journal of
English and Literature

  • Abbreviation: Int. J. English Lit.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN: 2141-2626
  • DOI: 10.5897/IJEL
  • Start Year: 2010
  • Published Articles: 281

Full Length Research Paper

"Twenty-first Century English Poetry towards Mantric Planes of Consciousness"

Nikhil Kumar
  • Nikhil Kumar
  • Department of English, V.K.S.University, Arrah (Bihar) India-802301.
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  •  Received: 08 July 2014
  •  Accepted: 21 August 2014
  •  Published: 31 October 2014

Abstract

Sri Aurobindo, a man of the supramental plane of consciousness has found ‘Mantra’ to be the future of Poetry, the poetry which expresses the deepest spiritual reality. He discovers that poetry written from some higher plane of, what he calls, the Intuitive Mind Consciousness and Over mind Consciousness, the two uppermost planes of spiritual consciousness on the plane of Mind is the Mantra. Since man is yet to evolve to these higher planes of the spiritual mind-consciousness, the Mantra is the future poetry. On examination of Tomas Transtromer’s Answers to Letters and some other poems of the present century it is found that the evolution of consciousness is going on, and the poetic consciousness is destined to evolve to such higher planes of the Mantric Consciousness. 

Key words: Poetry of Future, Mantra, Sri Aurobindo, Tomas Transtromer.