RE: Who's a Poet?
Ramakrishna S. Pillalamrri (pkrishna@ARL.MIL)
Tue, 3 Jun 1997 11:45:47 -0600
>>not necessary to put down s-nA-re, or sAmbasivarAvu, to prop up SrISrI.
>It would be a matter of shame if we Telugus have to 'prop-up'
>SreeSree and if we do not put-down si.na.re!
>>As a matter of fact, i wasn't trying to prop-up SreeSree.
I was only attempting to praphrase some discussion that happened perhaps an
year ago. Perhaps you were in the group at the time.
>si.na.re took up beaten themes. Actaully those themes looked beaten
>because >si.na.re failed to add anything new to them. All art is an
>accumulatiuon of >details. So it's the poets' treatment of subject that
>makes it a memorable
If themes repeated are themes beaten, then aren't all poets, including
modern poets, SrISrI through whoever it is now, say gaddar, indulging in
the beaten track? That "the treatment of the subject makes it memorable" is
a valid point. So, a beaten theme can be taken and given "good treatment",
and conversely, an unbeaten theme (if such a thing exists) given poor
treatment. So the criticism ought not to be that the themes are beaten, but
whether they have been treated well. But then, such an assessment could be
highly subjective.
>Or let others know what you think of the topic. Voice of the dissent!
Not necessarily. If a group of telusa members are discussing traditional
poetry, and another group the repression of "khAkee bratukulu", on what
basis can one group castigate the other? If we are all sitting together and
watching a movie, or listening to a lecture, the topic of which is chosen
by the majority, then there is room for expression of dissent. But the
analogy is to that of a magazine here. Some may read/discuss sports, some
the horoscope, some book reviews, and some the financial stuff. You choose
your cup of tea.
Actually, the analogy is even better than that of a magazine. They may have
some limitation on the size, and may have to drop/shrink coverage on a
topic, in order to carry/expand coverage on another. Such is not the case
here.
Enough od this argumentative, confrontational rhetoric. One more piece from
the anthalogy. Some of the pieces here are not necessarily "modern" in some
rebellious way. Some are even written in SPDCB structure!
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