Abstract

Indian poetry written in English is exceptionally high-quality. Poets writing before India's independence tended to write about Indian subjects in a traditional Romantic or Victorian meter and rhyme scheme, while poets writing after the country gained independence displayed a great deal of experimentation, divergence from traditional modes of expression, and the exercise of freedom in both these areas as well as others. The writings of these contemporary poets vividly depict the tension between tradition and modernity on many scales, including the social, cultural, familiar, national, and global.

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