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**ChebuRAtoR** · 06-14-2008, 03:41 AM

When one reads a poem and fails to connect to it - one can't but help feel a sense of loss. The poet's preoccuppations and their intensity are there but the experience reaches a high only if the reader is able to connect to it. The effort to go beyond the words, abandon the shells of cynicism is not always fruitful. It is a pure hit or miss

Mrs.PP and Q, I must say I really envy how you have experienced this poem.

The quoted incident makes both Bharathi & Shelley dearer still to me!

Bharathi's KuyilpAttu is supposed to be inspired by Shelley's Ode to a Skylark.

I recall a lovely line from a different Shelley poem that I unable to place:

an ever moving joyless eye
finds nothing worth its constancy

I've forgotten the poem but this line just stayed with me. Even with the context you just cannot say whether the line is judgemental or not

06-14-2008, 03:41 AM	#27
ChebuRAtoR Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 536 Senior Member	When one reads a poem and fails to connect to it - one can't but help feel a sense of loss. The poet's preoccuppations and their intensity are there but the experience reaches a high only if the reader is able to connect to it. The effort to go beyond the words, abandon the shells of cynicism is not always fruitful. It is a pure hit or miss Mrs.PP and Q, I must say I really envy how you have experienced this poem. The quoted incident makes both Bharathi & Shelley dearer still to me! Bharathi's KuyilpAttu is supposed to be inspired by Shelley's Ode to a Skylark. I recall a lovely line from a different Shelley poem that I unable to place: an ever moving joyless eye finds nothing worth its constancy I've forgotten the poem but this line just stayed with me. Even with the context you just cannot say whether the line is judgemental or not
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