on art as it reflects its time
A Reply to Meera
very interesting thoughts:)
we reflect our times
much as art reflects its times--today's art has relevance to today...which is not to say that yesterday's art has no relevance today...isn't art is for all times?... but 'relevance' in the sense of appreciation changes with times...returning to poetry...
in another discussion i mentioned rhyme-zone dictionary the other day...say you write a line:
..........makes no sense and want to rhyme it...all you have to do it to go to Rhyme-Zone write sense and hit the enter key...bingo... THIS is what you will see...
of course doing anything well is not simple...one has to read, read, read and familiarize oneself with iambic and non iambic meters, stressed and unstressed syllables, even a rudimentary count, rhymes (including inner) and so on...you get the idea?
now, back to what you wrote......the modern poetry...is quite different in terms of 'length/no. of words in a line', 'rhyme scheme'......
in the light of discussion thus far first a confession...i cringe at modern...the time-space allotted to it is an ever shrinking one...am happier using relevance...and when we apply to this discussion of poetry...the scansion patterns and schemes of earlier era poetry...as in sonnets, rhyming poetry, eulogies, elegies...(did you read up on those links i sent the other day?)...here is one more CLICK of any one period really...and read for yourself in terms of relevance will yield interesting observations (apologize for the convolution here)
the pace of life is different today...than it was in the days of chaucer, dickens even eliot...languages evolve we are told...which is another way of saying (language) speakers evolve...this evolution is as much dependent on circumstance as perhaps age...
in this day of instant-living where expectations are high and time short the tastes keep pace too...gone are the days when time mattered little...we are living a life of hurried expectations where seconds and minutes rule...not hours and days...and with this change in expectations and life styles our tastes changes
take ghazals for instance...one complete thought delivered in a structured metered couplet...a string of five or seven couplets...the beh'r a very intricate and rigid pattern...
60-70 years ago most poets wrote ghazals...today a majority writes naz'ms...
it is less structured…more free flowing…could be short as two lines or long as hundreds...and can encapsulate a complete thought...(of course it has its drawbacks)...
so there
hope have been able to contribute to the general confusion some:)
very interesting thoughts:)
we reflect our times
much as art reflects its times--today's art has relevance to today...which is not to say that yesterday's art has no relevance today...isn't art is for all times?... but 'relevance' in the sense of appreciation changes with times...returning to poetry...
in another discussion i mentioned rhyme-zone dictionary the other day...say you write a line:
..........makes no sense and want to rhyme it...all you have to do it to go to Rhyme-Zone write sense and hit the enter key...bingo... THIS is what you will see...
of course doing anything well is not simple...one has to read, read, read and familiarize oneself with iambic and non iambic meters, stressed and unstressed syllables, even a rudimentary count, rhymes (including inner) and so on...you get the idea?
now, back to what you wrote......the modern poetry...is quite different in terms of 'length/no. of words in a line', 'rhyme scheme'......
in the light of discussion thus far first a confession...i cringe at modern...the time-space allotted to it is an ever shrinking one...am happier using relevance...and when we apply to this discussion of poetry...the scansion patterns and schemes of earlier era poetry...as in sonnets, rhyming poetry, eulogies, elegies...(did you read up on those links i sent the other day?)...here is one more CLICK of any one period really...and read for yourself in terms of relevance will yield interesting observations (apologize for the convolution here)
the pace of life is different today...than it was in the days of chaucer, dickens even eliot...languages evolve we are told...which is another way of saying (language) speakers evolve...this evolution is as much dependent on circumstance as perhaps age...
in this day of instant-living where expectations are high and time short the tastes keep pace too...gone are the days when time mattered little...we are living a life of hurried expectations where seconds and minutes rule...not hours and days...and with this change in expectations and life styles our tastes changes
take ghazals for instance...one complete thought delivered in a structured metered couplet...a string of five or seven couplets...the beh'r a very intricate and rigid pattern...
60-70 years ago most poets wrote ghazals...today a majority writes naz'ms...
it is less structured…more free flowing…could be short as two lines or long as hundreds...and can encapsulate a complete thought...(of course it has its drawbacks)...
so there
hope have been able to contribute to the general confusion some:)
posted by temporal at 5/07/2006
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