Ramakanta Rath
Heavily influenced by the poets such as T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound, Rath experimented greatly with form and style.The quest for the mystical, the riddles of life and death, the inner solitude of individual selves, and subservience to material needs and carnal desires are among this philosopher-poet's favorite themes.His poetry betrays a sense of pessimism along with counter-aesthetics, and he steadfastly refuses to put on the garb of a preacher of goodness and absolute beauty.The poetic expressions found in his creations carry a distinct sign of symbolic annotations to spiritual and metaphysical contents of life.Often transcending beyond ordinary human capabilities, the poet reaches the higher territories of sharp intellectualism.