Does anybody care for poetry these days, except, may be, PG and Ph.D. students? Most probably, the answer to this question may be a resounding 'no'. My submission is that poetry is here, there, everywhere. It is an insight. Poetry never incites, rather it takes us in-site to a world full of creativity.
You do not believe me, right? Okay. Let us look at this nursery rhyme "twinkle , twinkle, little star". I can show you how poetically rich it is.
It uses a quatrain as a stanza with the rhyme scheme a-a-b-b. Thus it gets the in-built gentle effect of a two-line couplet which adds to its musicality. So does the alliteration from the very first line. The repetition of the consonance 'tw' captures the distant uniqueness of the star.
The nursery rhyme uses the star as a rich image with a metaphorical quality. It does not stop there either. It has a deep symbolic value. The star could signify unique brilliance of ideals which guide like the lodestar. On a still deeper level emerge the existential meanings of total alienation and the breakdown of communication.
Even now I am not done with the vision the poem is enriched with. I can continue analysing its syntactic structure, its invocatory/incantatory aspects which will add their own unique meanings.
In brief, poetry is the very in-sight. It is in our vision which can locate unusual significations in every word and each line. Such a habit of creative interpretation can enrich our daily lived lives beyond compare. Long live poetry, in brief!
Pratima@Poetry so permeates our lives that every day is actually a poetry day!
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