Did the word "kaviraakshasulu" offend you the same way as
"chando-chadastam"?
If not, we are sensitive to different things.
>
> >In spite of the arguments we have on Telusa from time to time, no body
> >from my side has any problems enjoying a classic poem.
> >It is just that times have changed and we enjoy today's poetry as much
> >as we do the old stuff.
>
> This is sort of difficult to understand, people writing vehemently against
> classical poems and simultaneously claiming that they enjoy it.
As I said in response to another Telusaer, liking some poem of the past
is different from recreating it.
I enjoy the poems in rukminikalyanam as much as I do those of Jayaprabha.
But if Jayaprabha expresses her agony on the plight of small farmers in
twenty lines and then
adds filler words and stretches words and adds arasunnas and bandi-raws to
make it an utpalamala or mattebham, to me it would be utterly ridiculous.
That is my view.
>
> >When an admirer of old poetry puts quotation marks and says
> >"Volga's poetry" or "Sri Sri's poem" that is where the intolerance is.
>
> Then the intolerance is being directed at the wrong place, the art form rather
> than the people. So this is just a verbal battle and finally doesn't mean
> any thing!
>
Sorry, I don't understand your point here.
>
> >It smells like formaldehyde. It has neither relevance nor future.
>
> Morgue has become formaldehyde! Why this so called change? Is it intended
> to be an improvement? Anyway, this sounds like a wish rather than an
> honest prediction.
To me they are different words, not much of change. Formaldehyde is used
in morgues to preserve tissues. I don't wish anything. It is not a
prediction. You can go to any bookstore in AP and buy a book of today's
poetry and check for yourself whether the poetry is written with rigid
metrical rules or not. All I am saying, and not doing a good job at
saying it, is that the content is more important in today's poetry than
structure.
I should add that if I say something with the purpose of offending
someone, that is objectionable, to me also.
But if my opinions are offensive, no regrets there.
Regards,
Sitaramayya Ari.