Shadow Play

No one has the right to instruct poets on matters of content or style. One writes poetry only because some incident or experience temts or compels him/her to choose the medium of poetry for expression.On the other hand when poetry becomes a slave to familiar , predictable stylisations it generates only boredom.If poets indulge in the exercise of writing poetry keeping in mind certain predtermined notions about the content fit for poetry and if they are led by considerations of eternal value and beauty it looses the enrgy, vigour and beauty of genuine writing and the result is a tiresome shadow play.