Lyric Lute: A Sheen of Subjectivism and Lyricism

Abstract

Mahendra Bhatnagar’s ninth collection of poems in English translated by Dr. Shaleen Kumar Singh is unique in itself as it has the brilliance of subjectivism and lyricism in his poems which is quite uncommon in the literary world of present time. It is often seen that most of the poets plainly describe the thoughts and particular situation which strike than. They feel no need to mix their own personality in them. So it can be judged in the light of this new trend of poetry that no feeling penned in the poems can have any outpouring of poets’ heart. These poems can be termed as the poems bare of poet’s personal predicament and aspiration for a particular emotion or scene. But the poems of Mahendra Bhatnagar in present collection completes this lack of modern poetry, though his collections are translated from Hindi into English but this work of conversion is done so dexterously that the beauty of his original poems is tried to be maintained to its full one more fact is also noteworthy here that the poems of Mahendra Bhatnagar are in itself lyrical, his thoughts are the natural flow of emotions in which lyricism simply mixes with it.