Wanted:Sane Critics
Nyayapathi Srinivasa Rao (vasu@india.hp.com)
Fri, 4 Oct 96 14:57:45 IST
hi all,
We have read a lot (on both telusa and scit)
about Ramabhadra Dokka's poem (O kavI).
The poet in his PS uses words and phrases
(viplavam mattu, kavi raakshasulu and dushkavitalu....)
that nobody takes (or should take) seriuously.
Someone (homunculusly calling oneself a 'boorzuva')
did not like it at all.
He went on to abuse the poet and a lone
(known) supporter that the poem found.
(Boorzuva wrote to SCIT only, ofcourse)
The boorzuva's abuse is bad due to many reasons.
He lacked courage to write under his own name and
he used a language that doesn't please anybody.
The critics like boorzuva don't know many things.
He failed to assess some kind of #krutyaadyavastha#
that the poem betrays.
Regarding faiths and beliefs, well it's a tough thing
to talk now.
You may argue that Ram Dokka insulted the
great revolutionary poets and poetry that all of us
love.
(Maybe the poem O kavI came out of a nebulous confusion
which every young poet experiences at one time or the other.
The lines -full of 'generalsims' and amorphous altruism-
wax pretty sentimental about those who lost
their lives under the influence of red-writing)
The poem is not what i'm talking about.
What is this judgmental tone?
Who can raise his finger at SriSri or at anyother
rev.poet ? Who is insulting a fallen-hero ?
Who can belittle sacrifice ?
What is this over-seriousness which is
as cheap and useless as lack-seriousness ?
Why didn't boorzuva separate political beliefs (or lack-there-of)
from the literary value of the poem?
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Regards & Thanks
Vasu.
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