Sourav Sarkar
Post-modern literature is not only dealing with the imagery of society but also showing the reality. It explores extreme realities of life. When 2020 was going through a pandemic, people believed that world had to end; they were praying for people who got ill and dying at the moment. So new ideas and topics were almost lost. People were in dilemma as to what would the future be like. As the situation got worse, there was no futuristic feelings about art and poetry; people were trying to survive their own financial loss, job loss, and economical imbalance created a vacuum in the world. In that time Dead End Poets try to write whatever they watched in the critical time, a mixed feeling of Fear and Death and also a yearning to live life. So they expressed their realistic approach to life. It was completely a new type of poetry. Poetry got no Rules and no Rhythm. It could be from one to a hundred lines. There was no use of any form and sign and symbols. It comes to end with a single word and in one sentence.
Postmodern effects were there to bring reality from life. Choice is given to reader to criticize over the work. Freedom of writing was there. There was no bound of words; people could express the term “extreme reality”.
Words and vocabulary used in the dead end poems were simple and mundane, so that it could match the feeling with the common people. Anyone could be a poet that believed. Consciousness of life had shown in the poets of America and France and India. They followed constructive method to elaborate the pain and effectiveness of verse. Later it maximized the choice of liberty. Modernism did not have any effect on dead end period of poetry. Poetic expressions were bold and strong with the message of hope. They believed that Dead end did not mean the end of creativity rather start of a new age when a new light will be thrown into the world.
We can say, it is a mixture of romanticism, realism, multiculturalism, postmodernism but it got a clear vision that is to go beyond any of the movements that happened before it. It is not God driven movement. It is a movement by the people. Ideas are given importance in the poetic exploration. Traditional aspect or view of literature had been rejected. It does not show any kind of reference to the Ideals of the other movements. There is no classicism. Dead end poets were common people. They suggested a life which is not extraordinary or extravagant or rich or modified. They showed the sterility of life. Except the boundary of personal life they bravely projected feeling of nature. There is no particular theme that poets searched for. They wrote whatever they see. Despite the traits of postmodernism which deals with the modernity and nothingness dead end poets show that after destruction of age there will be resurrection of dream which shall build a new principal of poetry. Absurdity of the previous movement does not have any influence upon the dead end poetry movement.Dead End Poets group included poets from 195 countries of world. Names of major poets are Sourav Sarkar, Nwobodo Constantine, Terry K (Kaye), Aleksandar Mihajlovik, Miroslava Panayotova, D.E.Tvedt, Chinedujonathanich, Amb Lovelyn P Eyo, Abdelghani RAHMANI, Kate I ‘Brien, Adrian Slonaker, SiamirMarulafau, Chika Udekwe,StoiankaBoianova, Minko Tanev, yeşimağaoğlu, LidijaŠtampar, RadomariolaCikic, Alma Maglic, JSB, SanelaSoftić, Zorana Gavrilović, Jasam Samir Suljić, Bojana Simeunović,Jonathan Minton, Anna Maria Dall’Olio, Scott McGreor, Dr Keith Souter etc. They started writing through Dead end poetry magazine. First issue published on Friday 25th December 2020 from Cooch Behar, West Bengal, INDIA. Madness of science cannot resist to write the dead end poets. Nature is not only the theme of civilization rather humans are theme of Civilization. They uplift poor people of society who got pain. The elite society is not constant part of society, people can write anything about the world. It was mixture of sadness and happiness. There will be unlocking of faith. People will go beyond traditional bondage that is end all “ism “.“Ism”will be abolished like regionalism and symbolism. Karma will be given main teaching, through Karma one can establish a new life where there is only happiness, no borders or wall of war. Wall of War term related to nuclear weapons and nuclear war etc. People thought that simplicity of living life is important. Despite the hardships of reality, people try to find out the ways through which they can get peace. Suffering was there but at the same time there was freedom of expression that eventuality led their life sequence. People were living a corporate life where everything had seen in the eyes of Corporate system,a system which very much related to business and business oriented accessibility and that’s why people were doing things only for the sake of life. Another term included hereLife for life’s sake. They could practice their art of poetry and it was possible only by the movement named Dead end poetry movement. There was a quest of appetite that means the Quest of life food. People were frustrated, they wanted to come out of their shell and that was why they had chosen a new way of living life. Human thinking was dwarfed. Materialistic demand were at the end stage and people demanded extreme reality where there was no barrier between caste, creed, religion, language, ethnicity, state, country etc. Dead and poets knew it very well and they tried to identity each and every human being of this world. Discovery of science is no doubt important for the society but at the same time the science discovery had little bad effect on the human life and society that
was why people were losing faith upon science. They were in dilemma. Whether go for superpower or science to make their life straight. People were living in a period where Stark reality made them able to create robotic things but this electronic age had demanded no things, which will change their natural creativity. They were fed up with the moralities and monotonous life; they were looking for a new door of creativity. They wanted to come out of the sorrow and create a world of happiness. Few called it Dead end age or Dead age or Dead era of literature. It spread worldwide through poems, art, culture and life style.
[Sourav Sarkar was born in Cooch Behar District, West Bengal, India. He went to Jenkins school, Cooch Behar for higher secondary education. He received graduation in English Literature from University B.T & Evening College and did his post-graduation from St. Joseph’s college Darjeeling in English Literature. Fundamentally, he is a poet. His poems have so far been published in the countries like England, India, Bangladesh, America, Canada, Trinidad, etc.]