Poetry for the Inner Ear

Poststructuralism We all know that structuralism was based on the main premise that the structure of human world can be well understood by the structure of language. But during 1960s, the post structural authors philosophers raised doubts about the validity of the language itself to unravel the mysteries and obstinate questionings about our universe. Foucalt aptly remarked that god was crumbling under our feet. The poststructural authors are attracted by themes like Marxism, feminism, nihilism and anarchism. From De Saussure's structuralist thought to Derrida's deconstruction theories it is evident that we can never fully understand or know anything, as the the interpretation of words differ from aone individual to another. The author’s writing is not so important as its interpretation by the reader. The truth is that the reader of a poem is the real autor of the poem as he brings new interpretation quite different from the original intention of the poet. The reader writes an...

The Top Three Features of Poetry 1. The poets  show their preference for open vowel sounds, rich and fluid feminine endings, and the balance of phrase and clause. The poems aptly reveal the musical ear of these artists . The sound effects contribute to the final impact of the poems. It is difficult to agree with an uninspiring nihilism of Jean Baudrillard “Everything has already happened…nothing new can occur.” Great poetry is full of moral ideas; ‘the idea is the fact’. Nancy Scheper-Hughes (b. 1944) wisely says: “If we cannot begin to think about social institutions and practices in moral or ethical terms, then anthropology strikes me as quite weak and useless.”  2. The images in a poem become a true mark of true genius, when they are moulded by the passion present in the poet’s mind. S. T. Coleridge (1772-1834) says, “ Images, however, beautiful and true to nature and accurately presented in words, do not of themselves become a mark of poetic excellence. They become proo...