Foregrounding Ideology Poem by Abha Sharma

'Absurd poem'! ! ! ! ! ! ? ? ? ? ? Art and literature of the highest order can not flourish in a world which is increasingly becoming mechanic and society a rocket! - it is said!

Abha, i liked this poem, a deep thought it evokes, very good

My ex (now late) husband was heavily into post modernism - a natural progression perhaps from the Marxism which was his passion during the sixties. I found it threatening then (because I didn't understand it) , but these days, I say 'So what? ' Your poem is as delightfully absurd as it is finely honed. You mock (very cleverly) those who obfuscate and pontificate about the splitting of existential hairs. Excellent poem. love, Allie ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥

'Symbolical' push … the help of intuitions, internal reason to realise the formula intellectual developed … to develop harmonious relations … Thank you...

An exasperational expression with which I am in full agreement. Write it any way you wish, someone will call it art and then art itself is nothing. I am in favor of individual expression, I am not in favor of calling it art before the people have spoken and given it that designation. Greenwolfe 1962

every ideology is meaningless until brought into practice

Abha, I really liked this one, I like the idea that our mentalities are based on a 'material infrastructure'. Really it seems to shape all of our values these days, sometimes obstructing the true important issues in life.10/10 Thanks, David

Though I have commented on this piece already, I would like to recomment after going through your post script. I do agree that one should not be too judgemental about a poem's (especially one like this) meaning. Some poems are pretty straight forward and can be explained away with a fair degree of accuracy. There are other poems however which one would do better to feel rather than try to understand and put too much meaning into it. To assume that one understands everything and to put a construction on such a poem is - I would say - rather presumptious. T S Elliot puts this into perspective 'Poetry should communicate before it could be understood'. This to me is true poetry. A poem communicates through its totality and gradually the meaning seeps in. At times the reader may not be able to explain the meaning but he will be able to feel it. After all 'The way' says Adam Smith 'which can be described is not the way'. To try to read too much meaning into a poem such as this is to label it; bleed it; crucify and asphyxiate it. Imprison it in the well of your understanding and you hemm it in, emancipate and allow it to flow into your consciousness and it will speak to you wordlessly

Another powerful piece Abha. They recently built a new art gallery in my home town of Walsall and it won lots of awards for it's design. Yet I saw no beauty at all. In fact, I think it's one of the most ugly constructions ever built. Some people must see beauty where there is none and vice-versa. Best wishes, Andrew

We are on the other side of divide... deep into the mirror... we cannot be absurd here where lucidity breathes shabash abha Frank Bhaiya is so very right about you