• Ananta Geetey Uppal

O.P.Bhatnagar's early life was a veritable hell due to the severe incompatibility of his parents and his consequent ill treatment. He never experienced what parental affection means to a child. Observing the contraries in the life of his parents, he developed an ironic vision, which he was claimed that he elaborately expresses in his poetry. Bhatnagar as a child had to confront and bear the prejudice, anger, hostility and scorn that went on unabated between his parents. These made him look at life with a critical stance. He could, in his later life, also see the immorality and corruption prevalent in the society and in the politics of the country, the usual butt of his poetry. Due to his traumatic childhood experiences he became an atheist. Critics have noticed that he condemns the hypocrisy practised by so-called God men to exploit the religious people. But he contradicts critics’ analysis saying that a poem is a chronicle of poet’s ideals and values. According to him, it is an attribute of the “personal and not the autobiographical”. This paper is an attempt to prove critics’ opinion of his poems and also to justify Bhatnagar’s philosophy in this concern.

Bhatnagar, childhood, God, atheist, irony

"Autobiographical Elements in O.P. Bhatnagar’s Poems", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 2, page no.574-578, February-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1902673.pdf

"Autobiographical Elements in O.P. Bhatnagar’s Poems", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 2, page no. pp574-578, February-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1902673.pdf