The revolutionary epic poem ‘Ram Ki Shakti Puja’, known for its grand style and emotional intensity, was written by which Chhayavaad poet ?
Suryakant Tripathi
The long poem Ram Ki Shakti Puja was written by Suryakant Tripathi, known by his pen name Nirala, one of the four principal poets of the Chhayavaad movement.
The poem retells the moment in the Rama-Ravana war when Rama, faltering before Ravana's strength, invokes Shakti and finally offers his own eye as the missing blue lotus. Nirala's dense, unrhymed and heavily Sanskritised line, and the reading of Rama's despair as an inner struggle rather than a divine certainty, are what give the poem its grand style and emotional intensity.
The other poets do not fit. Sumitranandan Pant is a Chhayavaad poet but of nature and beauty, and did not write this poem. Kedarnath Singh and Gajanan Madhav Muktibodh belong to later movements — Nayi Kavita and progressive-modernist poetry respectively — and stand outside Chhayavaad altogether.
Hence, the answer is Suryakant Tripathi.
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