• KM RUBY

Abstract – Although our constitution gives several rights to women to elevate them socially and politically yet they are sufferers. What’s the reason behind their sufferings is the main concern of Jayanta Mahapatra. The main reason is their ignorance towards their existence and prejudiced patriarchal society that’s why women are unable to use these rights practically. Mahapatra portrays predicaments of these women in his poetry. Although many writers have portrayed the plight of women in their works but uniqueness of Mahapatra lies in the fact that while portraying women he thinks with a female point of view even after being a male poet. He feels their loneliness, silence, anger, helplessness and their crippleness. He shows the several aspects of woman’s plight. He finds housewife, widow, prostitute, helpless girl child and a pathetic mother a victim of social evils. The purpose of my present paper is to explore Jayanta Mahapatra in the light of feministic traits. Through his poems he portrays their sufferings and tries to aware them so that they could fight with these social evils.

Key Words - Sufferings, Loneliness, Exploitation, Poverty, Alienation, Predicaments

"The Plight of Women: A Study of Jayanta Mahapatra's Selected Poems", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 8, page no.9-15, August-2018, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1808002.pdf

"The Plight of Women: A Study of Jayanta Mahapatra's Selected Poems", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 8, page no. pp9-15, August-2018, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1808002.pdf