Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar

Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar

Aravayal, karaikudi, Tamil Nadu, South India
Monday, December 21, 2009

Life Passes Through, Not Being Born. Comments

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The flowers think they gave birth to seeds,
The shoots, they gave birth to the flowers,
And the plants, they gave birth to the shoots,
So do the seeds they gave birth to plants.
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Yacov Mitchenko 21 December 2009

I would rather say that you think that 'flowers think they gave birth to seeds'. A common error in poetry is to project too much onto things like flowers and stones, etc. You can do that to suggest human moods and feelings, but the problem begins when you want to convey in this way something as though it were scientific fact. Your point is sufficiently well made in the last four lines. Kahlil Gibran has made a similar point in The Prophet, I believe.

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Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar

Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar

Aravayal, karaikudi, Tamil Nadu, South India
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