Shobha And Priya

The great poet Robert frost while talking about poetry, said that poetry 'takes life by the throat'. Poetry is the art of capturing life in words. It is not just the ken of life, but a d i r e c t r e a l i s a t i o n o f t h e life. It i s a n e x e r c i s e o f s u b c o n s c i o u s , c o n c i n n o u s interpretations of the life that intensely surface through the conscious awareness. Ergo, readers must experience poems through subconscious exercises to capture the intensity of the life, hotting up in a poetry. No conscious nisus and analyses can lead one anywhere in fully realising the inner arcane treasure of beauty and meanings hidden in the poetry. Nor any other person can do the work for a reader of poerty. Appreciation of poetry involves the reader tuning his subconscious perceptions to receive the poet's subconscious signals through the juste-milieu of the poetry. A poet can transmit his experience o f shock of pleasure or grief directly to his reader sans its conscious awareness in both. The incantation is cast through the selection and articulation of words, not only in their word meanings, but also in the synergy of word rhythms, word musics, word pictures, word forms and oblique word hues and shades in the poetry. No avizefull efforts can do the magic either in writing poetry or in appreciating it to the level of a well-trained subconscious exercise of the mind. All avizefull exercises of poetic criticism are for this reason, badly limited.Though poetry is about what affected the poet most intensely, it is possible that he may not algate be consciously aware of all meanings and their oblique hues in his poem although his subconscious mind exercised on all aspects of the poetry in its parts and in its entiret y. The poet, T.S. Eliot was once asked by a student to explain the meaning of one of his poems. The great poet responded to the student by reading the poem and said no more. The same student made the request encore to which T.S. Eliot read the poem encore and fell silent, ipso facto delivering the vital message of a true poetry that poetry cannot be restated in a form other than more suo without poetic distortions.The raison d'etre of poetry is the pleasure of the shocks of discovery about the life. It is the fraicheur of thoughts in poetry that endears it to its readers; it is the intensity, the undivided attention with which the poet experiences the deja vu that warms up the poetry to its readers; it is the concentration of thought and feelings which brood to beauty and rich shades of meaning in poetry. The art of writing poetry is the process of gradual release of the shocks of coalesced thought and feelings in relaxed contemplative leisure of a reflective mood. Those who attempt the release through the carefully chosen language are poets and their expressions, poetry. The development of poetic impulses helps such releases to be streamlined to carefully chosen language as an assuetude to prevent wastes by dissipation. The true pleasure of reading poetry is in having an arcane keek to the subtle Unknown Horizons of the poet's mind, thought and personalit y.The two hundred and forty poems of this collection imprimis deal with the joie de vivre in its variegated hues- pleasures, sorrows, hopes, despairs, romances, ideologies and their concrete surroundings. These poems have concentrated thoughts and feelings as their roots. How far the intensity succeeded to release itself in relaxed contemplative leisure of the reflective mood and how far the intensity of the experience coalesced to the shocks of discovery about the quotidian life and things for the direct perception of the reader are the measures of success of my nisus, to be appraised by the public. I leave at it.