A.K.Ramanujan's poem 'On the death of a poem'

 A.K.Ramanujan's poem 'On the death of a poem'

I request readers to read the poem first from the link above and then my review. Thanks.

'What makes a poem?' the question may not find a simple answer, rather might have several answers. But A.K.Ramanujan can tell us the unmaking of a poem. This is very short poem of very few words. The world of a poet is infinite, boundless and abstract. The feel of the boundless expanse of his world must find an expression in the poem from the start of his initiative to write one. If his feel of his infinite world or the expression of the ecstasy is missing, then his is an aborted attempt and the poem is still born.

This unmaking happens when a poet is judgmental and groping within the precincts of a finite world. Here we are helped by A.K.Ramanujam to understand the identity of the boundaries of a finite world. Conscience is subjective we all know. It beats differently within a vegan, vegetarian and a

nonvegetarian. Even among nonvegetarians for beef eaters differently and for those only beef is taboo. Conscience carries all limitations of religion and rule of law. Often human values have no room within the books of these centers of power authority. Bounds, limits, and finite definitions of cognitive and incognitive choke the unwinding within a poet when the spark of a poem evolves into a beautifully intricately woven creation. The freedom from the known, and the expanse of the infinite abstract world from where the poet carved the poem into a piece of art, is first felt within by the poet and certainly the reader finds himself there. This either happens and the poem blossomed or it failed. There is no complacent varieties in poems.