Comments received on poems by Antara Sinha
Harmony
Soman Ragavan said:
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\"De la difficulté à faire rimer poésie et identité.\" \"WEEK-END\" newspaper, Mauritius 6 July, 1997, (page 33).
* \"(.....) ”When the poet sits at his working table, does he feel that he has something to change ? Does he give himself this vocation of troublemaker ? (continued in another message, as there was a limit here).
June 4th, 2025 03:16
Soman Ragavan said:
(continued)
\"De la difficulté à faire rimer poésie et identité.\" \"WEEK-END\" newspaper, Mauritius 6 July, 1997, (page 33).
* \"(.....) ”When the poet sits at his working table, does he feel that he has something to change ? Does he give himself this vocation of troublemaker ? (continued in another message, as there was a limit here).
June 4th, 2025 03:16
Harmony
Soman Ragavan said:
By writing poems you become part of eternity and the Infinite.
\"De la difficulté à faire rimer poésie et identité.\" \"WEEK-END\" newspaper, Mauritius 6 July, 1997, (page 33).
* \"(.....) ”Poets are immortal, they take us to the frontier of the infinite,---- says at the very beginning James Burty David. For him, we must not think that the imaginary is disorderly, for even in this apparent disorder, there is a structured language.\"
* \"The poet is someone subversive. For him, [J. B. David], the beginning of the poet\'s wisdom is precisely when he says that he is questioning himself. “The poet is subversive in the primary sense of the word, for he makes at the start an insistence on freedom. The poet is an alchemist. And poetry is, before everything else, psychoanalysis, to the extent that it dives into identity, not only social or cultural, but that of the being. That is why modern society has tried to lure us away from poetry,----\" believes James Burty David. (continued in another message, as there is a limit on length here).
June 4th, 2025 03:14
Soman Ragavan said:
By writing poems you become part of eternity and the Infinite.
\"De la difficulté à faire rimer poésie et identité.\" \"WEEK-END\" newspaper, Mauritius 6 July, 1997, (page 33).
* \"(.....) ”Poets are immortal, they take us to the frontier of the infinite,---- says at the very beginning James Burty David. For him, we must not think that the imaginary is disorderly, for even in this apparent disorder, there is a structured language.\"
* \"The poet is someone subversive. For him, [J. B. David], the beginning of the poet\'s wisdom is precisely when he says that he is questioning himself. “The poet is subversive in the primary sense of the word, for he makes at the start an insistence on freedom. The poet is an alchemist. And poetry is, before everything else, psychoanalysis, to the extent that it dives into identity, not only social or cultural, but that of the being. That is why modern society has tried to lure us away from poetry,----\" believes James Burty David. (continued in another message, as there is a limit on length here).
June 4th, 2025 03:14
Harmony
Soman Ragavan said:
“ON THÉOPHILE GAUTHIER (1811-1872).
“(.....) In a world in which everything is impermanent, the poet, by rearranging reality into art, an create something that will have more permanent value. Such an artistic transposition is considered in detail in the notes to Gauthier\'s poems, particularly those on \"Lacenaire.\" Art can thus provide the poet with a solace for his mortality while he is alive and the hope of immortality in death. (.....)”--\"TWELVE FRENCH POETS. 1820-1900. AN ANTHOLOGY OF 19TH CENTURY FRENCH POETRY.\" London : Longmans, Green and Co., 1957. (Third impression, 1959). (With an Introduction and Notes by Douglas Parmée). Full acknowledgements are made to the authors, publishers and rights-holders.
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Soman Ragavan
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June 4th, 2025 03:11
Soman Ragavan said:
“ON THÉOPHILE GAUTHIER (1811-1872).
“(.....) In a world in which everything is impermanent, the poet, by rearranging reality into art, an create something that will have more permanent value. Such an artistic transposition is considered in detail in the notes to Gauthier\'s poems, particularly those on \"Lacenaire.\" Art can thus provide the poet with a solace for his mortality while he is alive and the hope of immortality in death. (.....)”--\"TWELVE FRENCH POETS. 1820-1900. AN ANTHOLOGY OF 19TH CENTURY FRENCH POETRY.\" London : Longmans, Green and Co., 1957. (Third impression, 1959). (With an Introduction and Notes by Douglas Parmée). Full acknowledgements are made to the authors, publishers and rights-holders.
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Soman Ragavan
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June 4th, 2025 03:11
