A thoughtful and thought-provoking poem. I favour intellectual discourse in
poems, which otherwise tend to be inspired by impressions rather than ideas. Thanks. Details
do vivify verse. Since old verse forms and rhyme schemes and syllable counts have
been exhaustively explored by the famous, we may explore the revival of prose
poems based on contemporary issues, technological allusions, so long as the writing is readable
to our kind of literates, even if not rhetorical like W. Whitman or James Joyce.
A. Madhavan
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A thoughtful and thought-provoking poem. I favour intellectual discourse in poems, which otherwise tend to be inspired by impressions rather than ideas. Thanks. Details do vivify verse. Since old verse forms and rhyme schemes and syllable counts have been exhaustively explored by the famous, we may explore the revival of prose poems based on contemporary issues, technological allusions, so long as the writing is readable to our kind of literates, even if not rhetorical like W. Whitman or James Joyce. A. Madhavan