Poetry for the Inner Ear

Lady Gaga's Visions Inspire                                      i. Lord’s fire rejects and recreates- teach me Thy statutes. At dark night I thank unto thee with tears in eyes ii. Transfer consciousness into lamb to keep His words the reward is righteousness Wherever I go Thou art there to preserve and relieve me iii. I hear you voice- ‘Be happy! eat the bread I give to you not ordinary bread my flesh is the bread I give to redeem the world human race may perish untamed nuclear weapons ring the death-bell turn thy soul to Sermon on the Mount obey the Word offer the right cheek’. Lady Gaga's visions BORN THIS WAY inspire me- 'DON’T BE A DRAG, JUST BE A QUEEN WHETHER YOU’RE BROKE OR EVERGREEN'

The Three Most Important Features of Modern Poetry      1. DISILLUSIONMENT   The great depth of contemporary poetry is evident in the poems by Robert Frost, Wallace Stevens, T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Marianne Moore, e. e. cummings, Robinson Jeffers, H. D. (Hilda Doolittle), Robert Graves, W. H. Auden, Archibald MacLeish, Basil Bunting, Robert Lowell, Philip Larkin, Stephen Spender, and others. . The modernity of   these poets    is revealed by the artist’s failure in a society quite indifferent and callous to poetry. The disillusionment and predicament of a poet was truly described in Pound’s Hugh Selwyn Mauberley : “His true Penelope was Flaubert. \ He fished by obstinate isles.” The artist’s private break-down and disintegration was very aptly shown by T. S. Eliot in The Waste Land :            On Margate Sands,            I can conne...

Poetry for the Inner Ear: Poetry and 'a continual extinction of personality'... : "Poetry and 'a continual extinction of personality' Poetry, like other arts, produces a unique joy through an artistic creation of beauty. T..."

Poetry and 'a continual extinction of personality'   Poetry, like other arts, produces a unique joy through an artistic creation of beauty. To such artistic creation each great poet  brings a freshness and individuality that give the poems an original place in world poetry. Poets differ in their moods; spring is "the cruelest month" for T.S. Eliot. On the contrary April is energetic and cheerful for Chaucer in Prologue to The Canterbury Tales . But it may be remembered that a poet should write without interruption from the intrusion of his personal peculiarities. Arnold calls the artist "most fortunate, when he most entirely succeeds in effacing himself." "The progress of an artist is a continual extinction of personality" (T.S. Eliot).                 If the poets follow T.S. Eliot's dictum, and keep their personality away during the moments of composing the poems, they may well become the idols...