Dynamics of Poetry and Criticism

The book ‘Criticism and poetry’ contains of twenty-five signatures of the great stalwart poets of the 21st century of Indo English Literature. The book seizes the generic images and the mental experiences of the works of art written in a certain time frame. One may find the glimpses of Love, Passion, Pain, Joys and even the World War and contemporary ideas and views. Writing a review of a poem demands inexhaustible endeavors to know Literature in toto. Literary terms and terminologies are frequently alluded to the criticism just pilfering from the poems of the poets. Even rhetoric and prosody also get elucidated what is essentially beneficial for the students of English literature. The book aims at the knack of the students of English Criticism. All the poems are broadly scanned to know the moods of conventional poetry. About the Poet In the brief compass of this Foreword, I would rather funnel my attention to the poet and critic two contrary terms getting mingled together. As a poet his one line "This rose will remain fluttering/ Even when the poet is no more" Intuitively perhaps Samar Pratap comes to choosing the sense of futurity in the verb collocation instead of situating the line in simple present tense. The sense of futurity yields immediately to the apprehension of transience or mutability, of tentativeness or incertitude. Here the poet's poetic persona posits a pledge never to withdraw from a dedicated commitment to poetry and to churning it out of the apparent stuff of life. Yet a deeper exploration of this voice of pledge may reveal a range of unexpected and even self-subversive turns of meaning in the underlayer. The voice of promise in tandem with the tense of futurity suggests tentativeness, or uncertainty; a promise however much affirmed may ultimately fizzle out.