Poetry for the Inner Ear

All greatest  poets,  through poetic symbols (The French poets are leaders in such type of poetry), visionary trances and metaphors are successful in confronting the inner and external realities. These poets reveal that poetry is more than common metaphor and analogies, and their poems reach deeper. We will not find in  poems, which are full of monotonous dreams and vague fancies. Through a wise use of metaphor, the immortal poets  are s capable to create ome extraordinary compositions revealing the bitter truth and realities of the new millennium.             Dryden (1631-1700) pointed out: “There may be too great a likeness, as the most skilful painters affirm, that there may be too near a resemblance in a picture; to take every lineament and feature, is not to make an excellent piece; but to heighten the beauties of some part, and hide the deformities of the rest…the employment of a poet is like that o...

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...