[mukto-mona] Poetry and Hunger.

One of my very learned friends detests poetry as a bourgeois culture. His notion is that only hammer and sickle is the real culture because it's related to productivity and productivity is the basic need for human survival. After listening to him I remembered Kevin Costner's movie 'Water'. I never watched such a dry movie full of junk, rust and steel in my entire life. There is no doubt that human hunger surpasses all other needs but is it the only identity we carry? Karl Marx may be very famous for his Das Capital or the Communist Manifesto but we as his posterity does not know about his other traits as a human being.  I always maintained a deep interest in this man which led me to visit his grave in Highgate cemetery in England. I found a deeply materialistic man who read Friedrich Hegel well but understood him in a very limited way. Looking at the grave nestling under the tall trees I found this Proletarian revolutionary at peace with nature a perfect place to compose a poem.

 There is no doubt that hunger can't be removed by poetry but does poetry a simple pass time alone? If life orbits around food only as human beings where do we excel? Our passion, our emotion, our creativity and ingenuity is of no value? Why we have created this civilization with so much of fan fare where physical hunger does not rule? Personally I feel that our life which is a tiny particle of the eternity has proved to be a gorgeous one because we spanned ourselves far beyond the sphere of physical hunger. Our creativeness in literature, art, dancing and songs are like the colourful butterflies decorating the entire gamut of our existence. Looking at a very ordinary object with a passionate cultural interest make it a thing of beauty. As Tagore said, when I see this world through a song then I know her.

Poetry is composed of some chosen words which invokes imagination followed by passion. Our mind is always pregnant with a flood of passion and emotion which unfurls itself in poetry. The aim of poetry is not to explain things it rather pushes us to point of explosion. Our life becomes larger than then we know. A lofty world whispers that our mission is beyond our imagination.

 

Akbar Hussain

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