Foregrounding Ideology Comments

every ideology is meaningless until brought into practice

Abha, I really liked this one, I like the idea that our mentalities are based on a 'material infrastructure'. Really it seems to shape all of our values these days, sometimes obstructing the true important issues in life.10/10 Thanks, David

Though I have commented on this piece already, I would like to recomment after going through your post script. I do agree that one should not be too judgemental about a poem's (especially one like this) meaning. Some poems are pretty straight forward and can be explained away with a fair degree of accuracy. There are other poems however which one would do better to feel rather than try to understand and put too much meaning into it. To assume that one understands everything and to put a construction on such a poem is - I would say - rather presumptious. T S Elliot puts this into perspective 'Poetry should communicate before it could be understood'. This to me is true poetry. A poem communicates through its totality and gradually the meaning seeps in. At times the reader may not be able to explain the meaning but he will be able to feel it. After all 'The way' says Adam Smith 'which can be described is not the way'. To try to read too much meaning into a poem such as this is to label it; bleed it; crucify and asphyxiate it. Imprison it in the well of your understanding and you hemm it in, emancipate and allow it to flow into your consciousness and it will speak to you wordlessly

Another powerful piece Abha. They recently built a new art gallery in my home town of Walsall and it won lots of awards for it's design. Yet I saw no beauty at all. In fact, I think it's one of the most ugly constructions ever built. Some people must see beauty where there is none and vice-versa. Best wishes, Andrew

We are on the other side of divide... deep into the mirror... we cannot be absurd here where lucidity breathes shabash abha Frank Bhaiya is so very right about you

I like the idea of the poetry...there is more to every piece of art than just wht u see... i like ur style of poetry...havent read anything of this sort in a long time...nice to know you!

You know as well as I do that 'absurd' is the last thing this is.... t x

Attitudes, values, Ideas, Conscious mental states Impress them on the blank slate Refusing to any intrinsic reality ---------- relativity - gravity - changeless reality - such is phemomemon - such is the brain setting- they do not have any intrinsic reality as you point it........I like your idea into poetry-is it the mind life?

Your poems are so deep that my weak mind can barely grasp them hahah! !

I don't think it is an absurd poem.It is a mirror of what is happening today in this 'postmodern world'.Every age is a reaction against its previous era.So postmodernism is also a reaction against those conventions and ideologies which are no more significant today. Feminism, Postcolonialism, Poststructuralism, Marxism, psycoanalytic critism, Russian Formalism, Structuralism, New historicism, Cultural Materialism etc.are few examples of this foregrounding of 'OTHER'.But they are merely the pompous signs of our erudition.They can not simplify or facilitate the things but make them more complex. That is why you call this poem absurd.But since we are living in the age of postmodernism, we must accept it as a natural expression of an individual because he is also trapped in the dilemma of simplicity and complexity.He wants to become simple but this so called trend has made him complex. As far as art is concerned, It is considered that something which can not be understood is modern art.If absurdity is only the characteristic of postmodernism then it should be given a red carpet welcome by those people who call themselves postmodernist.well, it is only my perception about these ideologies. It is a wonderful poem about ideologies ever been composed before and it could come only from your pen.A nice poem for discussion also.I invite other intellectual readers also to discuss this poem. Kindly write more poems on Ideologies and Literature.It is a great pleasure to read them.

An exasperational expression with which I am in full agreement. Write it any way you wish, someone will call it art and then art itself is nothing. I am in favor of individual expression, I am not in favor of calling it art before the people have spoken and given it that designation. Greenwolfe 1962

'Symbolical' push … the help of intuitions, internal reason to realise the formula intellectual developed … to develop harmonious relations … Thank you...

My ex (now late) husband was heavily into post modernism - a natural progression perhaps from the Marxism which was his passion during the sixties. I found it threatening then (because I didn't understand it) , but these days, I say 'So what? ' Your poem is as delightfully absurd as it is finely honed. You mock (very cleverly) those who obfuscate and pontificate about the splitting of existential hairs. Excellent poem. love, Allie ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥

Abha, i liked this poem, a deep thought it evokes, very good

'Absurd poem'! ! ! ! ! ! ? ? ? ? ? Art and literature of the highest order can not flourish in a world which is increasingly becoming mechanic and society a rocket! - it is said!

simply the ideology seems to be time torn on this milieu of social change, all those probably holds good no more by the reeks of social transformation may be regressive or progressive yet to be re-esimated by social scientists, still we find evolution in organism by simply genetic mutation, so also human ideology is in the process of critical collapse due to materialstic outlook impinging upon the psychic level resulting into a point of criss -cross where there is no point of return, most satirically one can say all these as you remark, need redefinition as our childern point out us that we are all old timer by the generation gap, , , , , , beautiful observation by the society..well penned,10+, thanks for sharing

the man /woman/child/animal/plant/nature/niverse is in a constant struggle to get out of the maze and the revolution may explain some reasons of the plaight of human kind, , , harmony is the answer or is not it? ?

I have read somewhere: - 'The main object of a revolution Is the liberation of man... Not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.' Nicely written with crisp and sharp words Good yaar. Enjoyed.

...amazing to find you bring out your enriched thoughts into beautiful verses with ease... your conciousness is really great! congrats...

Abha, A thoughtful and well written poem with a befiting concluding line! I also enjoyed reading those first two comments. - Raj Nandy 24 Apr 08