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Kumar Ashwini
https://thoughtfulcritic.com/
“Criticism that thrives on exaggeration or selective reading ultimately undermines its own credibility.”
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“When poetry becomes synonymous with examination stress, it is unsurprising that readers abandon it once formal education ends.”
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“Poetry, today, is struggling for its space. Poets are writing poems. Readers are not reading poems. Other poets are reading other poets’ poems. They seldom like or appreciate what others write. Poetry, therefore, has turned itself into an unresolving cycle of paradox!”
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“Poetry is frequently introduced as an object of dissection rather than an experience of encounter. Students are trained to hunt for metaphors, symbols, and devices before they are allowed to feel the poem. This premature intellectualisation breeds anxiety rather than appreciation.”
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“Only if I knew
that knowing it would bring
a burden I could seldom carry
and ferry among those I know,
only to be rejected.”
― Thoughts Between Life and Death
that knowing it would bring
a burden I could seldom carry
and ferry among those I know,
only to be rejected.”
― Thoughts Between Life and Death
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