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Jayanta Mahapatra is the most significant representative of Indian English poetry and his work is very profound and philosophical, revealing the aspects of life, culture and spirituality. In this paper, the author learns about the collaboration of imagery and symbolism in his few poems such as "Hunger" "Whorehouse in Calcutta Street" "Dawn at Puri", "A Rain of Rites", "Grandfather" and other poems to share his thoughts and feelings. Images that Mahapatra employs in his poetry to depict the underlying meaning of love, faith, suffering, and identity include the images of everyday life in Odisha: its rivers, temples, rituals, and nature. His symbols, e.g. light and darkness, rain and river, tend to relate the personal world of the poet with the rest of humanity in general. He transforms the mundane into a glimpse on life and faith with the help of simple but impressive images. The paper will seek to demonstrate why the imagery and symbolism employed by Mahapatra to provide meaning in her work bring about a sense of beauty and pain of human existence to the readers. Through this interaction, the paper reveals how his poems merge the local experience with the universal truth and why he is an amazing and an unforgettable poet in the Indian English literature.