Sunday, 9 July 2023

The Beauty of a Poetry

Poetry is like a deep dive into the fathomless ocean of human emotion.   I read the poetry "An elementary school classroom in a slum" by Stephen Spender, an English poet, who tried to draw a picture of slum children sitting in the school. Though the sight of the English slum school is different from that of where I live. Yet the poem gives the equal burn to me,  equal sorrow for slum children as it gives to any Englishman. Poetries don't need a compass.

1) Universal applicability is the element that makes poetries famous around the globe. Read and enjoyed by all men and women.   

Remember Robert Frost's "The road not taken": a brilliant example of universal applicability.     

2) The second element that provides wind to the wings of poetry is a "pun"

Poems are instruments to experience human emotion. Imaginations differ but the true essence remains constant.   

3) The rhyme at the end of the line gives a  satisfying feeling like that of having a dessert delight after a meal. 

collaboration of the reader's imagination with the poet's idea is what we call a poetry 

 to sum up, all the above-mentioned elements, let's make one right here:

The poetry of life will swing 

until the last breath

it will swing high and low 

Sometimes it may glow

Sometimes it may blow 

But the only thing to know is to 
 
keep going, go. 

-Aashi Gupta

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