CHALAM AND ISMAIL on PURPOSE OF  POETRY    

Chalam  thinks that  aesthetic experience and  eligible qualifications  can be given by no system, distribution ,education or equality. The riches and luxuries can be shared but not the ‘samskara’ to derive joy out of an artistic piece valuable and the subjective differences exist in this regard.

He  writes  it’s true that  art is no one’s property. It belongs  to an artist who alone could experience.  He thinks that very few realize that spring decorates the sky every morning and evening in wonderful colours for the sake of people’s hearts.

He says  that art is for those who have hunger for art  and  just for food.

If one insists on purpose of poetry, the answer may be given by the  wrestlers, boulders or bears but not by the South wind  or moonlit night.  

ISMAIL’S POEM

We love babies and poems
Why?

We create poems
 and babies out of love
We gain immortality
 Through babies and poems
They  go on living
When we are gone
Since we’re mortal
Babies and poems give us
Immortality
Infinity
Deal a deathblow to
Death itself!

Which is prettier?

Baby or poem?
‘ Before the baby ‘Nandini’
My poem pales
Now you know!