Question

discuss the theme of the poem shillong​

Answer 1

Explanation:

Robin S Ngangom in fact, hailed from Manipur and came to Shillong to study. These two poets reacted to the bludgeoning violence of their immediate society and took the route of 'escapism' by speaking of the natural beauty of their land, the hill-scape, the ravines and gorges cut deep into their psyches,

The hill town, literary hub of India’s Northeast, has produced poetry and fiction that are keenly aware of a complex politics of location and have ushered in a place-centered poetics. In the 1980s, when Modern Indian Poetry had already been hosted as a genre by Nissim Ezekiel’s scrupulous efforts, in Shillong, poets Ananya Guha, Robin Ngangom and Desmond Kharmawphlang founded the now-defunct Shillong Poetry Circle and they were soon joined by Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih and Anjum Hasan. The poetry conglomeration gained visibility in literary circles as Shillong Poetry Society with the publication of its bi-annual poetry journal, Lyric, in 1992. In 1995, the first and only anthology to date devoted to select poetry and essays on music from Shillong, Gwalia in Khasia, edited by Welsh poet and dramatist Nigel Jenkins, was published by Alun Books from Wales. Over eclectic poetry readings that made them discover deeper resonances for their literary worlds in Pablo Neruda, Czeslaw Milosz, Mahmoud Darwish, Yehuda Amichai, Federico Garcia Lorca and Constantine Cavafy, and through discussions on the works of their contemporaries from the rest of India, these poets sought in regional material a new value for poetry.