Re: Humble Request

uday bhaskar (srijna@hotmail.com)
Fri, 30 May 1997 11:56:10 PDT


Palana Gaaru wrote:
>Sir (and others, if want to)! I am really puzzled by these words.
>Could you explain the "SALIENT FEATURES" of Good Poetry and Bad Poetry.
>Also, who made these ground rules to distinguish between such categories of
>poetry?
>
>I am dummer than the dummest in this field.
>
>--pAlana

Sir, 

kavitvAnni kolicE tUnika rALLu nA daggara lEvanTUne
mahA prasthAnAnni overshadow ceyyagaliginanta goppa mundu mATa rAsADu Chalam.

nAlugu viDatallO kavitva nirvacanAlu guppincina mIru I prasna 
nannendukadugutunnArO telusukO vacca?

If you have read in my postings that I am either trying to make ground rules or 
that I have implied that I am a sarva~jnya in this field, I apologise, for i 
seem to have failed my own test for clarity.

ayyA! nA goDavallA idi - nEnu kotha pAthala gurinci mATlADaTam lEdu. 

If chandO poetry has so many champions, obviously it is reaching its intended 
audience - I have no issue with that. As I said yesterday, one who writes chandO 
poetry should ensure that his (or her) intended audience do not miss the 
significance of any part of his (or her) message due to his (or her) eagerness 
to show off his (or her) pAnDityam.

I was, however, not at all addressing traditional or chandO badha poetry when I 
made my comments about spaShTata.

IMHO, because of the format and the maturity of the form, traditional poetry is 
far less susceptible to misinterpretation than free verse. Therefore, my target 
was the modern poets who tend to write to an increasingly smaller audience. nA 
uddesamlO  spaShTata kAvalsinadi aTuvanTi kavitvAniki. 

Regards,

Uday


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