Reply: On Telugu meters with English words
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30 Nov 95 12:53:54 -0800
I have sent two mails with English poems in Telugu metre.
I am a bit surpirsed to see that they escaped the attention
of the `telusa' reader circle in toto.
To day, here is a post from Ramakrishna S. Pillalamarri,
with the subject `On Telugu meters with English words'
I am again surprised that, being in the quest of finding
such poems, Pillalamarri has not bothered to comment on
my poems.
May be they are poor in quality?
I believe I have lived upto the expressed in the paragraph
in his mail
"Yet, just as the expert artisan spends much time even on parts of
the work that people rarely see, I will agree that a good poet
ought to follow both prAsa and yati."
English Kandam. On 22-NOV-95 16:29
Why you want to have trick
Poetry fun when all the beauty of a
Poem lies in gentle
Doing that has nothing to do with gimmicks!
Another English kandam. On 22-NOV-95 16:29
Why don't you write free verse?
Why do you rough the Telugu poetic beauty?
I don't like this ati-
tude; English can't be used in this mean way!
For those who have some doubt, I urge them to see whether
they 1) are in proper Englishg in full without a Telugu word
even. 2) are really sounding like Kanda padya rightaway.
3) are even parsable into to proper metre without failure
4) all rules incl. yati and praasa are followed.
I think I made my point.
It is still OK for all to ignore these poems along with this post.
OR am I missing some thing important?
-Syamala Rao.
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PS: may be word `fun' can be substituted with another word like
`thing' and `rough' by a word `touch'. It depends.
-Syamala Rao
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