Essential Aesthetics

Rhyming with a Poet ...

How poetry is born and attract readers of different taste and tenors ? It is a question worth a dissection of emotive and social pursuits in and out of mental realms. When you coin a word into a poetic format, it need to satisfy your needs of expression. It could be seen that poetic structure is emotion condensed and we can see a sense of externalizing emotions in the poetic rhythm. This sort of rhythm is the trace of a collective consciousness embed in the lattice of speech structures. Human sense of collective sensibility reflects in the instinct and inspiration for poetry; same reflects in the poetic rhythm and style. Each word is not only rhythmic in utterance, it is placed based on the coherence of poets mind with the society. As observed by Caudwell, man's primitive tendency to wander through the nature and objectify their experiences reflects in poetry. 

Poet wanders through his innate speech spaces which are nothing but words and meanings etched by his social relations and positions in class struggle as Individual as a collective being. Our primitive vagabond nature has been transformed over ages; it was through the wilderness of nature in the Greek and Mesopotamian era whereas now Man is more complex and is exploring the wilderness in their own mind. So it is nothing but a  realization that mind is a second or secondary nature for our primitive instincts.This realization has been achieved through our social transformations cultivated in the era of capitalism and its individualism which is nothing but an ideological position of the hegemonic class to justify the alienation of the labour.It can be related to the freedom of man to evaluate and relate themselves with the material objects which are their essence expatriated by the process of capitalist production system. 

So freedom is relative here. It is liberalizing and chaining on two ends of the labour process. This state of contradiction inspires man to relate experiences from individual perceptions. Yet this is never a snow wall against the primitive nature of man. It breaks the limits of Individual experience in the form of myths which carries the energy of history as collective symbols. In the same frame, we need to see that poetry has become man's relation with material objects of expression where the dominant tendency is to speak aloud and be once again. It is not much polyphonic as we see in the organics of a novel. It is more of a harmony of primitive music where man is craving to unite the contradicting senses into one perception. In that end, we can see poetry more of a child-like instinct than the rebellious nature of novel.