A viewpoint on Poets and Poetry in Difficult Times

Abstract

A poet acts, reacts and interacts at different times with various kinds of people and gathers multiple experiences and challenges, and tries to give them suitable chronological order but stays obscure. He is caught up in inquisitive analysis into the realities as frenzied current life makes it difficult to find rationality many a time and so an inquiring mind ponders over seriously. One cannot forget the past even if one tries, for it is from the ancient times, one gets some glimpses of roots and origin that make one think deep and long, which is a good beginning for some imaginative outpouring with love and compassion. In a way, one pursues legacy and lives with it, otherwise, it drives one to scepticism and disorientation where purification causes a big threat. A stage in life comes, when one attempts to know the secret of life and existence amidst ghost of death that works under the diktat of Time spirit as one feels at the burial grounds when he watches burning bodies…! It is also a moment of introspection and painful inspiration when one encounters the inevitability of death and if he sings its glory lyrically, it speaks of strength. Poet ought to know the puzzling dilemma of modern times and accept the challenge of terrifying possibilities where cerebral exercise turns ineffectual, snobby and dicey that love to create its own area of elimination with an ill-fated outcome. To look back is good for here one understands situations and people and as positivity fills one enjoys living in the mystery of birth and death, a cycle man struggles hard to know.