Birth Name:

Ramakanta Rath

Male

Birth Date:

Thu, Dec 13, 1934

Time of Birth:

Unknown (using Noon)

Place of Birth:

Cuttack, Odisha, India

Age:

89

Zodiac Sign:

Sagittarius

Astrology Data:

Sun

20°

Sag

34'

About Ramakanta Rath

Ramakanta Rath (born 13 December 1934) is one of the most renowned modernist poets in the Odia literature. Heavily influenced by the poets such as T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound, Rath experimented greatly with form and style. The quest for the mystical, the riddles of life and death, the inner solitude of individual selves, and subservience to material needs and carnal desires are among this philosopher-poet's favorite themes. His poetry betrays a sense of pessimism along with counter-aesthetics, and he steadfastly refuses to put on the garb of a preacher of goodness and absolute beauty. His poetry is full of melancholy and laments the inevitability of death and the resultant feeling of futility. The poetic expressions found in his creations carry a distinct sign of symbolic annotations to spiritual and metaphysical contents of life. Often transcending beyond ordinary human capabilities, the poet reaches the higher territories of sharp intellectualism. The contents have varied from a modernist interpretation of ancient Sanskrit literature protagonist Radha in the poem "Sri Radha" to the ever-present and enthralling death-consciousness espoused in "Saptama Ritu" (The Seventh Season).

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Astrological aspects and planetary data / tags for Ramakanta Rath: Sun 20 Sagittarius, Moon 18 Pisces, Mercury 10 Sagittarius, Venus 26 Sagittarius, Mars 0 Libra, Jupiter 13 Scorpio, Saturn 23 Aquarius, Uranus 27 Aries, Neptune 14 Virgo, Pluto 25 Cancer, Sun Conjunct Venus, Sun Sextile Saturn, Mercury Square Neptune, Mercury Sesquiquadrate Uranus, Mercury Sesquiquadrate Pluto, Venus Square Mars, Venus Semi Square Jupiter, Venus Sextile Saturn, Venus Trine Uranus, Venus Quincunx Pluto, Mars Semi Square Jupiter, Jupiter Sextile Neptune, Saturn Quincunx Pluto, Uranus Sesquiquadrate Neptune, Uranus Square Pluto

Categories related to Ramakanta Rath: Living people, December 13 births, Indian civil servants, People from Cuttack, Recipients of the Padma Bhushan in literature & education, 1934 births, Recipients of the Saraswati Samman Award, Recipients of the Gangadhar National Award, Recipients of the Sahitya Akademi Award in Odia, Odia-language poets

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