ON G.SANKARA KURUP'S POEMS

G. Sankara Kurup’s poetry is the expression of an exotic mind, enriched by knowledge and disciplined by art. He is a conscientious, meticulous artist who sought perfection through successive revision of his poems. Whatever he has written has a stateliness of its own. His poetry has an elevating influence on the reader not only by its lofty thought, but also by the clarity of its style .Apart from his well appreciated grandeur of style, sometimes he was deeply sensitive to the beauties of external nature and exhibits the lighter and more fanciful side of his poetry.  Besides this love of beauty there is a natural strain of pre-independent and post-independent Indian social scenario in his poems. Harmony and contradictions of these two strains are visible in his writings .It is further evident in his auto biography ’oormayude oolangalil’(In  the Waves of Memory).His poetry shows a curious blending of many elements of his time. He experimented with romanticism, classicism, realism,mysticism,symbolism etc. He is the only poet of his generation who knew the range of poetry in its different applications. His range is quite remarkable from ‘Saagarageetham ‘( Song of the sea) , a poem of majestic style to ‘ Chandanakkattil’ (Sandalwood Bed ) , a simple poem  which  narrates a story.  The unending search sometimes made quibbles in the language of his poems. In future, we may consider him as a poet who always tried to overcome the limitations of his time and reached the possibilities of poetic language, diction and style.