Re: _how_is said vs _what_is said --- choice?
Kanneganti, Chandra (Chandra.Kanneganti@fmr.com)
Fri, 3 Oct 1997 17:16:00 -0400
>>
>> When I die, do not throw the meat and bones away. But, pile them
>> up and let them tell by their smell what life was worth on this
>> earth and what love was worth in the end.
>Now it's definitely not a poem. In this case, since we don't *think* in
>terms of lines anymore, the rhythm effects and sound patterns are
>*lost* forever.
That's magic! I should try this trick on my son! Frankly, this gave me
a mild shock for a Friday. No contest.
<explanation deleted>
>In this specific case, the poem being simple in nature, reading it as
>prose as well as poetry may manage to strike the same chords in the
>reader, but it is the poetic form which makes it special and
>memorable.
Let us make it simple. There are some people who thinks that lines that
'strike the chords' are poetry and there are people who thinks that
lines that use rhythm and sound patterns (and cut to proper length) are
poetry. Obviously we stand on different sides. What else I can say?
>Coming back to our aSleela padyamulu: It's true that the dude is making
>us feel something, real or surreal and enjoyable or not, but so does
>*smut* and the ubiquitous "Boston Telephone Directory", right?
We are aged enough to distinguish them as such, aren't we?
>Now, tell me if you care, why should we consider vaa.ci.vee's 'aSleela
>padyamulu' as a form of poetry and make SrI SrI turn in his grave?
I can't say why we should make SreeSree turn in his grave as I believe
he wouldn't have minded writing those lines. As per why those pieces
should be called poetry though they lack the form (shall I point out
these are actually cut into short length and there seems to be a sound
pattern in the repetition of dEvuNNee, phalam. appudoo,ippuDoo etc.?) ,
that is what vEloori has been trying to say by starting this thread.
>-Jagdish ( just for the heck of it! ) Bisa
Chandra Kanneganti