Saturday, 5 December 2015

Minu Jasdanwala on Poetry

                             Behind the scenes
It is a great challenge to put into words of the art which is by and large successful than other arts in putting into words the concrete and the abstract. Last night raised the academic question - what is poetry? Today morning came the answer (only an attempt) from the experiences of my little poetic journey to answer the question; insufficient might it be for all who have gone on that poetry picnic with themselves.  

On Poetry
Poetry arises from a recondite source passing as a sensational current through the one who is attempting to put into words the firsthand experience. The only art reaches anywhere closer to the participation of an event of an X person is poetry, for the original experience of being and knowing can only be shared and cannot be put to use the same way as when it was occurred; once and for life. The attempt of poetic communication is capable in reproducing the closer proximity of the happening. To apprehend poetry is a fruit reaped through the repeated exercising of great mental labor that involves the investment of time and superior concentration supplemented by solitariness. There is a class stuff involved in both writing and comprehending the art.

Minu Jasdanwala

(5/12/15)

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