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> > vindu taravaata
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> > Poems emerge from half undersood facts and hazy overlaps
> > of meaning which are to be discovered in the act of writing them.
> >
> > -----Douglas Dunn-------
>
> Douglas Dunn - whoever he might be - might have taken the first half
> of the sentence out of my mind. i have no experience to either support or
> contest the second half though it seems plausible. now, what do poems that
> emerge in this fashion - from facts and meanings that their creators do not
> understand completely, supposed to do to the readers? enlighten them?
There are several ways of looking at it.
To start with, Douglas Dunn was British. A neo_modern.
A poet need not explain or interpret reality per se.
He mirrors a scene, adds a bit of his own outlook.
He colors everything in his own way.
We cannot expect a poet to enlighten us. Some may do!!
A poet, needless to repeat, should write poetry.
So ask yourself. Does this piece have something that
correlates to known characteristics of a poem ?
If the answer is yes, re-feel your feelings.
A poem is just as meaningful as the impressions
it left on your mind.
Inthis case, i think, it left a confusing mess of
incomplete images and a sense of silent-heaviness.
Am I correct ? That was the effect intended.
That is what, the poet believes, #vindu# leaves in its
wake.
--Regards & Thanks
Vasu.