Plato
aptly comments: "For the poet is a winged and
a holy thing, and there is no invention in him
until he has been inspired." The poems
selected for the Voyages reveal the pulse of the 21st century
poets. Poetry alone can make us better persons.
According to Sir Philip Sidney, the poet is a
better moral teacher than a historian and a
philosopher. Poetry is "the center and
circumference of knowledge", and the poets
are "the unacknowledged legislators of the
world." The poems in the Voyages show the subtle sense of mystery, beauty, grandeur of
nature, a great interest in humanity, and love for
the elemental simplicities of life. We find here
not only a wonderful and heightened imagination,
but also a rich style and a variety of melodies
along with incomparable music.
The question arises how these poets have
been able to transcend the hollowness of social
system and the terrible storms of violence and
terrorism endangering the very survival of
mankind. Several poets to escape from the sad
dreariness, the fear of 'nuclear winter' and the
widespread violence, withdraw "from outer
experience to concentrate on the inner." The
horrors, the death of beauty, and the maddening
strife of the violent crowd compel these poets to
search the unknown and the strange things. This
creates a beautiful feeling of wonder and mystery
in their poems. The most distinguishing feature of
the poets in the Voyages is their extraordinary imaginative power. By their
intense imagination, they are able to discover the
mystery of things. The poems successfully explore
the deepest emotions of the soul. Most of the
poems in the Voyages reveal a remarkable dreamy grace and subtle suggestion. |
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By: Dr.
Santosh Kumar Binding: Paperback (pp:
304) ISBN: 81-901366-2-3 Availability: In
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Description:
Voyages
by Cyberwit.net, India, pp. 318 features poets
characterized by the iridescent color of
imagination and accuracy of observation. They add
a new light to what they experience and feel. The
poets from Europe and other countries exhibit a
simple force and chaste tenderness. Music comes
spontaneously to these artists from USA, UK,
Canada, Netherlands, Australia, New Zealand,
Argentina, Germany, France, Portugal, Japan, India
etc. Voyages contains some of the finest lyrics in
English; they reveal artistic workmanship. The
most striking feature of these poems is a
temperament most rich and soft, yet most robust.
The variety of poems is not due to the "clash
of civilizations." Voyages is a special case;
it assimilates poems from diverse nations, and
presents a homogenous world of poetry. Several
poets of Voyages have been influenced by
Ferlinghetti, Ginsberg and Bob Dylan. The
publication of world poetry anthologies by
Cyberwit makes the real beginning of poetry in
English in the new millennium. Voyages is a book
for those who love poetry and are endowed with a
poetic temperament; it will inspire others to
become poets, who alone are the chosen agents of
God. A delicate fancy and sublimity, which had
largely been a tradition since Shakespeare, is
again shown in the Voyages.
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Zwolle, Netherlands
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NY, USA
"It is an excellent addition to my collection
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MI, USA
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Lucy Day
CA, USA
"Again you have produced a lovely volume of
poetry. Even though I had to wait awhile it was
well worth it. Thanks once more for including my
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a Brilliant and Powerful collection of poems."
M.Enticknap
Orkney, UK
Voyages has included the poets endowed with the eye of the
artist. They have avoided the obsolete or worn-out
words. Pater aptly comments: "All art is in the
long run only fineness of truth, or what we call
expression, the finer accommodation of speech to that
vision within." The charm of Voyages poets lies partly in the "maturity, manifested in
technique, of feeling in relation to thought, of
imagination and desire in relation to actuality."
(F. R.Leavis)
No
doubt, Poetry should not have "a palpable design
upon us", but the thoughts of the poet must be
noble and sublime. The real moment of a great poem's
birth takes place only when the poets are inspired by
the sublime ideas, and write with precision and lucidity
of expression. Longinus wisely says: "It is good
for us, when we are working at some subject which
demands sublimity of thought and expression, to have
some idea in our minds as to how Homer might have
expressed the same thought. Emulation will bring those
great examples before our eyes, illumining our path and
lifting up our souls to the high standard of perfection,
imaged on our minds." The poets of the Voyages both instruct and delight. Art for art's sake is not
enough in our post-modern world tormented by violence
and terrorism. Great poetry is not pure sensation
divorced from moral control. Ben Jonson says,"
Poetry nourisheth and instructeth our youth; delights
our age, adorns our prosperity, comforts our adversity,
entertains us at home; keeps us company abroad, travels
with us; watches; shares in our country recesses and
recreations; in so much as the wisest, and best learned
have thought her the absolute mistress of manners and
nearest of kins to virtue."
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