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<font size="4">&nbsp;</font></o:p></span></i></p>

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none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span lang=EN-GB><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp;</span>ELIOT was perhaps the first to lay down the
principle that the style of poetry should be like that of prose. By prose he
means the current way of talk. According to him the language should be
current, if not colloquial. Common words and sentences and the order of prose
will satisfy this principle of poetic diction. Even in earlier times more than
one poet acted upon this principle. Wordsworth's method was of this nature:<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span lang=EN-GB><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

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mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
lang=EN-GB>Will no one tell me what she sings?<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

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mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
lang=EN-GB>Or<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

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mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
lang=EN-GB>'Tis </span><st1:time Minute="0" Hour="8"><span lang=EN-GB>eight
 o'clock</span></st1:time><span lang=EN-GB>, – a clear March night </span></p>

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mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
lang=EN-GB>The moon is up, –<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span lang=EN-GB><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:12.0pt;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
lang=EN-GB>But the moderns demand something still more. Merely current words
and expressions won't do; common parlance, even the commonest of common, has to
be adopted.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
lang=EN-GB>There is the style of poetic prose. It is a special feature of
literature of all climes. Since the time prose writing began enriching itself,
this mode of composition has been in vogue. In addition to this, there is the
prose poem. It is a step to rise from prose to poetry. The next step is free
verse. But what the moderns aim at is quite different from these approaches. It
will as far as possible contain the structure and outer form of poetry, but the
style will be of prose, <i>i.e., </i>its measure and rhythm will be of poetry,
but the tone will<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

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lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;'>Page – 134<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span class=GramE><span
lang=EN-GB>be of prose. The French Alexandrine;
the high order of twelve-line poetry of Corneille and Racine – if it is read as
poetry should be, it would sound totally dry and monotonous, but if despite
pause and rhyme, it is read like prose, it would reveal its beauty. Because the
noted actress Rachel discovered this, she has become renowned in the world of
French drama. The intention of the moderns is somewhat like this. Take, for
example, Eliot; but Eliot may be considered afterwards. Let us first take the
echo of a Bengali poet:<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>

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none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span lang=EN-GB><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

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10.3pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><img src="_Gif%20Image/135.gif" width="340" height="213" border="0"><span lang=EN-GB><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span lang=EN-GB><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span lang=EN-GB>From the
point of view of technique, it has been said to be flawless. One likes to
characterise these lines as doggerel in English. But they are not so. From the
standard of modern appreciation they are really solemn poetry. Such sort of
appreciation reminds us of the Sanskrit rhetorician's wit: What is an instance
of a faultless sloka or verse? – <i>Dugdham pivati <span class=SpellE>marjarah</span>
</i>(the cat drinks milk). – How? – A sloka must have four feet. <span
class=SpellE><i>Marjara</i></span><i> </i>(the cat) has them. A sloka
must have sweetness or <i>rasa </i>(lit. juice). What can be there <span
class=GramE>more sweet</span> than milk?<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
lang=EN-GB>Let alone wit and humour. The real problem is not perhaps with the
style and trend of colloquialism, but with<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

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style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;'>Page – 135<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span class=GramE><span
lang=EN-GB>something deeper. The question, no
doubt, raises a special aspect, but that is a mere symptom or complexity of the
disease. For the composition of all ancient poetry was neither artificial nor
unnatural. Rather, the reverse is the truth. Matthew Arnold has given proof of
the grand style in poetry. For example, </span><st1:City><st1:place><span
  lang=EN-GB>Milton</span></st1:place></st1:City><span lang=EN-GB>'s<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span lang=EN-GB><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span lang=EN-GB>Fall'n
cherub! <span class=GramE>to</span> be weak is miserable<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;tab-stops:124.8pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
lang=EN-GB><span style='mso-tab-count:1'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>(<st1:place>Paradise</st1:place> Lost, Book <span style='mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>I, </span>1. 157)<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;tab-stops:124.8pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
lang=EN-GB><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

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mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
lang=EN-GB>Or Dante's<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><i><span
lang=EN-GB><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></i></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><i><span lang=EN-GB>E'n La
<span class=SpellE>sua</span> volontade è nostra pace...<span
lang=EN-GB style='mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>¹<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p><i>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;tab-stops:73.9pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
lang=EN-GB><span style='mso-tab-count:1'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>(La
Divina Commedia 'Paradiso', III. 85)<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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none;tab-stops:73.9pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
lang=EN-GB><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

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<span lang=EN-GB>What
could be easier or more natural, more common and colloquial than such
expression? </span><st1:City><st1:place><span lang=EN-GB>Milton</span></st1:place></st1:City><span
lang=EN-GB>'s line may be taken as an exception to his usual style, but the
entire composition of Dante borders on popular speech. Yet the fact of the
matter is not that. Even though the ancients speak in popular terms, they choose
the zenith in <span class=GramE>poetry,</span> they swim on the crest of its
waves, never in its pit. The moderns choose their poetic note from the trough
of the common day-to-day speech and hold fast to it, rejecting as far as
possible the high note of the ancients. Hence Eliot says:<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<i>

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none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span lang=EN-GB><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

</i>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span lang=EN-GB>Madame
Sosostris, famous clairvoyante,<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span lang=EN-GB>Had a bad
cold, nevertheless<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></p>

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none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span class=GramE><span
lang=EN-GB>Is known to be the wisest woman in </span><st1:place><span lang=EN-GB>Europe</span></st1:place><span lang=EN-GB>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>

<i>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:2.5in;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
lang=EN-GB>(The </span><st1:place><st1:PlaceName><span lang=EN-GB>Waste</span></st1:PlaceName><span
 lang=EN-GB> </span><st1:PlaceType><span lang=EN-GB>Land</span></st1:PlaceType></st1:place><span
lang=EN-GB>, I)<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span lang=EN-GB><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:10.05pt;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
lang=EN-GB>Or<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
lang=EN-GB><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

</i>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span lang=EN-GB>Thank
you. If you see dear Mrs. Equitone </span></p>

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none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span lang=EN-GB>Tell her
I bring the horoscope myself; </span></p>

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none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span lang=EN-GB>One must
be so careful these days.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<i>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:3.5in;text-align:justify;text-indent:
.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span class=GramE><span lang=EN-GB>(Ibid.)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span lang=EN-GB><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

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mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
lang=EN-GB>¹ </span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
12.0pt'>Literally: &quot;And His will is our peace.&quot;</span><span
lang=EN-GB><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

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lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;'>Page –
136<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span class=GramE><span
lang=EN-GB>But why? What is the intention? What
purpose does it serve? First of all, we do not want any more of the poetic in
poetry, we do not want imagination, we do not want anything
of castles in the air. We want the real, the rude, not the good and the
beautiful. Strong feeling, powerful emotion – these you want. Such materials
are lying about in ordinary day-to-day life; you need not soar into the skies
and rummage the Heavens. The true interest and meaning of life are inherent in
the workaday world's ways and manners. Not so? Well, listen further to Eliot:<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>

<i>

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none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span lang=EN-GB><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

</i>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
lang=EN-GB><font size="2">HURRY UP PLEASE IT'S TIME </font> </span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
lang=EN-GB><font size="2">HURRY UP PLEASE IT'S TIME</font><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span lang=EN-GB>Goodnight
Bill. Goodnight Lou. Goodnight May.<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:33.35pt;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
lang=EN-GB>Goodnight.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span lang=EN-GB>Ta <span
class=SpellE>ta</span>. Goodnight. Goodnight.<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span lang=EN-GB>Good
night, ladies, good night, sweet ladies, </span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
class=GramE><span lang=EN-GB>good night, good
night.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>

<i>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.5in;text-align:justify;text-indent:
.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span lang=EN-GB>(The </span><st1:place><st1:PlaceName><span
  lang=EN-GB>Waste</span></st1:PlaceName><span lang=EN-GB> </span><st1:PlaceType><span
  lang=EN-GB>Land</span></st1:PlaceType></st1:place><span lang=EN-GB>, II)<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span lang=EN-GB><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span lang=EN-GB>The thing
to note here is whither this slow moving prose – don't we see that the sense
has become a bit concrete? The trend has undergone a seachange and there is a
flush of colour in the style – almost a blush. All is prose, indeed, prosaic in
spirit, but the poet has had to playa trick – whatever be the principle; if the
prose is left entirely as prose the poet's purpose is not fully served. When
the poet's heart swells to overflowing, it can despite its efforts never remain
in the ditch.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.15in;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
lang=EN-GB>I say, where the heart of the poet is in depth and intensity, his
voice rings with that depth and intensity. If Eliot has been a true poet, he
became so when he spoke like this:<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></p>

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150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
lang=EN-GB><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

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</i>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span lang=EN-GB>Eyes I
dare not meet in dreams </span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span lang=EN-GB>In <span
class=GramE>death's</span> dream kingdom </span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span lang=EN-GB>These do
not appear:<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>
<span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;'>Page – 137<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></p>

<i>

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mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'>

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</div>

</i>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span lang=EN-GB>There,
the eyes are<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span class=GramE><span
lang=EN-GB>Sunlight on a broken column. </span></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span lang=EN-GB>There, is
a tree swinging </span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span lang=EN-GB>And
voices are<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span lang=EN-GB>In the
wind's singing<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span lang=EN-GB>More
distant and more solemn </span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span class=GramE><span
lang=EN-GB>Than a fading star.<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></span></p>

<i>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span lang=EN-GB><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

</i>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span lang=EN-GB>This bit
of jewel is far above his 'Madame Sosostris' or even his 'Good Night'. Theory
is one thing. Reality is another. Theory is of the poet's mind, his expression
tied to his fancy, but that which is real in creation is the dictate of the
poet's inner Soul – which bloweth where it </span><span style='mso-ansi-language:
EN-US'>listeth</span><span lang=EN-GB>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:11.5pt;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
lang=EN-GB>One aspect of that theory is this. The subject of poetry is free
from design, free from covering. Stripped of all embellishments, what is
demanded is 'Sunlight on a broken column.' Things have to be seen with the
unblinking eye of the burning sun. Hence truth is dust, sand and grit – hard
substance reduced to powder, covered, over with an illusory soft, green layer.
Wealth and prosperity are the eternal pomp and luxury of a few; as for the
masses, theirs are poverty and want, disease and sorrow. The civilised man, the
educated <span class=GramE>man are</span> mere parasites. The forthright
children of the earth are the poor, the wretched, the primitive and the
uncivilised. One has to go down to the root of all things, in other words, to
cut off the head and move towards the lower limbs. The mystery of the lotus has
to be sought in the mire. The thing has to be cut and pruned and reduced to its
minutest, lowest, most despicable form. Our saints and seers transformed man
and raised him to the level of a spiritual seeker. In the present age too we
have aimed at the same thing in the reverse direction towards the lowest. The
reason why we like prose and its low-pitched movement is that we do not want to
remain in the higher spheres of the mind – we like to grovel in the dust.<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:13.5pt;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
lang=EN-GB>It is not that the petty, commonplace and insignificant<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;mso-pagination:none;
mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>
<span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;'>Page – 138<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></p>

<i>

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mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'>

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</div>

</i>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span class=GramE><span
lang=EN-GB>matters of daily concern cannot be
the material for poetry. These can be freely used in a poem, but it will not do
to have them exclusively in the poet's consciousness which should be of another stuff. The ancient thinkers have equated the poet's
consciousness with seer-vision.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:12.0pt;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
lang=EN-GB>The moderns do not even recognise this truth. They do not bother
about the Infinite. Neither do they feel the need of it nor do they admit it
for the beauty and sublimity of poetry. Their procedure is otherwise. A prosaic
thing may be accepted, but it should be treated as something more than that.
Otherwise there is no difference between prose and poetry. The two things seem
alike. The modern poets seek to be considered poets. Hence they practically
admit and establish a difference between poetry and prose.<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.15in;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
lang=EN-GB>The fundamental principle of this procedure is that the thing and
the event which are subjects for poetry should be developed along with their
characteristic nature and virtue. That is to say, the thing and the event
should be shown as speaking for themselves without the poet speaking for them.
Perhaps, it will not be much of a mistake to say that here <span class=GramE>lies</span>
the difference between the moderns and the ancients. For example, if a wasteland
is taken for the subject-matter, then we do not look for the poet's account or
his description of it as in the case of Kalidasa's <st1:place>Himalaya</st1:place>. If a wasteland could
speak for itself, then the poet would be the organ of his speech, the poet
could identify himself and be one with it. Similarly if 'hollow men' are the
poet's theme, then we do not require their introduction, <span class=GramE>nor</span>
a delineation of their character. We expect such a co-ordination of rhythm,
sound and sense as would suggest dryness, despair and emptiness. The wasteland
must float right before our eyes; not only that, we must feel like physically
walking through it when we hear:<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></p>

<i>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.15in;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
lang=EN-GB><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

</i>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span lang=EN-GB>A heap of
broken images, where the sun beats,<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span lang=EN-GB>And the
dead tree gives no shelter, the cricket no relief,<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;mso-pagination:none;
mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>
<span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;'>Page – 139<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></p>

<i>

<div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;mso-pagination:none;
mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'>

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</div>

</i>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;
mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-GB>And the dry
stone no sound of water. Only<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span lang=EN-GB>There is
shadow under this red rock...<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span lang=EN-GB>Your
shadow at morning striding behind you<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span lang=EN-GB>Or your
shadow at evening rising to meet you;<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span lang=EN-GB>I will
show you fear in a handful of dust.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<i>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:2.0in;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
lang=EN-GB style='mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>(The </span><st1:place><st1:PlaceName><span
  lang=EN-GB>Waste</span></st1:PlaceName><span lang=EN-GB> </span><st1:PlaceType><span
  lang=EN-GB>Land</span></st1:PlaceType></st1:place><span lang=EN-GB>, I)<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span lang=EN-GB><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

</i>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span lang=EN-GB>And don't
we become Hollow Men when we hear the words&nbsp; –<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<i>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span lang=EN-GB><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

</i>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span lang=EN-GB>The eyes
are not here<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span lang=EN-GB>There are
no eyes here<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span lang=EN-GB>In this
valley of dying stars<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span lang=EN-GB>In this
hollow valley<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span lang=EN-GB>This
broken jaw of our lost kingdoms...<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<i>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:96.95pt 160.8pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span lang=EN-GB><span style='mso-tab-count:1'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>(The Hollow Men, IV)<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;tab-stops:96.95pt 160.8pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
lang=EN-GB><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;tab-stops:10.3pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
lang=EN-GB><span style='mso-tab-count:1'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></i><span
lang=EN-GB><span style='mso-tab-count:1'> </span>It has to be admitted that
Eliot by his own method has achieved considerable success in such instances.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:10.55pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span class=GramE><span
lang=EN-GB>A little before I have referred to Good Night. Various poets have variously described their parting scenes. These
are perhaps the most poetic features in poetry. Othello's<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></span></p>

<i>

<i>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:10.55pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span lang=EN-GB><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

</i>

</i>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span lang=EN-GB>Speak of
me as I am; nothing extenuate…<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<i>

<i>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;tab-stops:171.6pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
lang=EN-GB><span style='mso-tab-count:1'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>(Othello,
V. ii. <span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:
"Arial Narrow";mso-bidi-font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>324)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;tab-stops:171.6pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-bidi-font-family:"Arial Narrow"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

</i>

</i>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
lang=EN-GB>Or Hamlet's<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<i>

<i>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
lang=EN-GB><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

</i>

</i>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
lang=EN-GB>... <span class=GramE>the</span> rest is silence...</span></p>

<i>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:2.0in;text-align:justify;text-indent:
.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span lang=EN-GB>(Hamlet, V.
ii. </span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-bidi-font-family:
"Arial Narrow"'>372)</span><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-bidi-font-family:"Arial Narrow"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

</i>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span class=GramE><span
lang=EN-GB>Or when Virgil's Orpheus says:<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>

<i>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span lang=EN-GB><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
lang=EN-GB>Heu sed non tua palmas...<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span lang=EN-GB><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

</i>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span lang=EN-GB>These are
the immense outpourings from the depth of the<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>
<span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;'>Page –
140<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></p>

<i>

<div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:14.4pt;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'>

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</div>

</i>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span class=GramE><span
lang=EN-GB>human heart. But the moderns tend to
give such feelings a different expression. These are articulations but the
moderns want not articulations but incantations. Articulations may make things
beautiful and touching, no doubt, but incantations make things look lifelike.
Eliot's Good Night... Good Night... and the repetition of the phrase – are they
not making the parting vibration physically felt?<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:9.8pt;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
lang=EN-GB>Another feature of their incantation is not the transparency of
sense, but its mystification. For it is not the sense, but something more. <span
class=GramE>Just as the aim of incantation is to have the descent of the deity,
so the aim of poetry is to present the truth or the object as living and
conscious.</span> So we find that Eliot goes on ignoring reasonable sequences
or the order of prose. By the impact of co-ordination of sound and suggestion
he makes up his presentation of the truth. So he feels no hesitation in mixing
up various tongues. He has expressed his thought by quoting even an Upanishadic
utterance in one of his poems in order to prove the power of poetry as a medium
of incantation. Listen:<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></p>

<i>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:9.8pt;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
lang=EN-GB><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

</i>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><st1:place><st1:PlaceName><span
  lang=EN-GB>London</span></st1:PlaceName><span lang=EN-GB> </span><st1:PlaceType><span
  lang=EN-GB>Bridge</span></st1:PlaceType></st1:place><span lang=EN-GB> is
falling down falling down falling down.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:230.15pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:
none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span lang=EN-GB><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

</i>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span lang=EN-GB>Poi s'
ascose</span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Arial Narrow";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> </span><span lang=EN-GB>net foco che gli
affina<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span lang=EN-GB>Quando
flam <span class=SpellE>ceu</span> chelidon – O
swallow <span class=SpellE>swallow</span>. </span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span class=GramE><span
lang=EN-GB>Le Prince d' Aquitaine <span class=SpellE>à</span> la tour abolie.<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span lang=EN-GB>These
fragments I have shored against my ruins. </span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span lang=EN-GB>Why then <span
class=SpellE>Ile</span> <span class=SpellE>fite</span> you. Hieronymo's mad
againe.</span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span class=GramE><span
lang=EN-GB>Datta. Dayadhavam. Damyata.<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span lang=EN-GB><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span class=GramE>Shantih <span
class=SpellE>shantih</span> <span class=SpellE>shantih</span>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>

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.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span lang=EN-GB>(The </span><st1:place><st1:PlaceName><span
  lang=EN-GB>Waste</span></st1:PlaceName><span lang=EN-GB> </span><st1:PlaceType><span
  lang=EN-GB>Land</span></st1:PlaceType></st1:place><span lang=EN-GB>)<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span lang=EN-GB><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

</i>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;tab-stops:9.8pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
lang=EN-GB><span style='mso-tab-count:1'>&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>This is, however, what may
be called an incantation with a vengeance in poetry.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:10.05pt;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
lang=EN-GB>It may be thought that we have here moved a good way from the method
and ideal of turning poetry with the spirit of prose. But it is not exactly so.
This type of incantation is<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

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lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;'>Page –
141<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span class=GramE><span
lang=EN-GB>the quintessence of prose itself. Perhaps
it may have measure but no tune.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.15in;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
lang=EN-GB>Yet, in </span><st1:place><span lang=EN-GB>Bengal</span></st1:place><span
lang=EN-GB>, we have not been able to rise to the standard of Eliot. The
reason is that Eliot is highly serious and has depth of feeling. However
whimsical and arbitrary may be his brains, he has behind all that an intensity
of emotion, although we may not call it the joy of poetry. Those of our
countrymen who want to follow Eliot's style seem to have had its form and not
its spirit. However intellectualised may be the mode of modern Western poetry,
it is the particular expression of Western life. Behind it there lies a
profound need, an urge of life. But here in our country this sort of creation
is an artificial flower. As in the social and political fields, so in the
domain of poetry the modern European trend has at most to a certain degree
stimulated our brain. It does not move our heart, far from touching our soul.<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:12.2pt;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
lang=EN-GB>That poetry is incantation may be taken for granted. But incantation
is of two kinds. The moderns follow the incantation of the left-wing tantriks.
The ancient poets took to the Vedantic and the right-wing of the Tantra as the
best.<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></p>

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150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
lang=EN-GB><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

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none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span lang=EN-GB>Yat <span
class=GramE>te</span> daksina-mukham tena mam pahi nityam. <o:p></o:p></span></p>

<i>

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none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span lang=EN-GB>(Protect
me, O Rudra, by your right aspect.)<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

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