Abstract: K. Ayyappa Paniker has created a niche for himself in the academic world as a poet, professor and critic. He heralded the dawn of modernism in Malayalam poetry and created a new perspective in the area of literary criticism.…
On the eve of parting You said: ‘Laughter was our language, Our path.’ Nothing profounder than that Did the mountains bring forth Or the depths harvest. Nothing lonelier than that Did spring and grow. Or spread Beyond the Pampa, lake…
Abstract: This article is an overview of Paniker as a poetic personality of Malayalam literature. It addresses aspects of his personality that shaped him to become one of the most renowned Malayalam poets. Instances that led him to convey poetry…
Abstract: A creative writer who attempts to analyse literature often gains insights which an ordinary critic may not obtain. The uniqueness of Ayyappa Paniker can be understood when his genius, as a writer who dared to inaugurate new techniques and…
Abstract: The paper Ayyappa Paniker’s status as a literary critic and his flair for, or rather skill in, applying theories, Eastern as well as Western, to texts of all hues and shapes, which have never been either disputed or doubted.…
Abstract: Ayyappa Paniker’s evolution in his poetry is one to be noted and valued. His style of poetry writing transcends from a typical romantic one to a more modernist inclusive approach. The paper aims at analysing the change in expressionism…
Abstract: The 62-poem anthology Poetry at Midnight is a translation of ‘Pathuntanipookal’ that Ayyappa Paniker published in the middle of 2004, four and a half decades after Kurukshetram and fifteen years after Gothrayanam, the saga of humanity.’ In between he…
Keywords: Malayalam poetry, Malayalam translation, aspects of life, concept of love, death, romantic imagery Ayyappa Parliker’s Gotrayanam’ translated into English as Southbound) belongs to the period 1985 – 1989. Extolled as an. epic for its theme relating to. the…
Keywords: romantic poetry, Malayalam poetry, Kurushetram, modernism, Malayalam translations Ayyappa Paniker came to be counted as one of the most notable poets in. Kerala after the publication of Kurukshetram’, the first modernist poem in Malayalam. Kurukshetram’ is central in Paniker’s…
