Shikdar Mohammed Kibriah,
Bangladesh
Complexity of Poetry
Modern poetry is to be often questioned for its complexity, perplexity and ambiguity like obscurity. Following that it is also questioned whether this kind of obscured, anecdotic or ambiguous modern poetry would be lasting or not. Let’s have a study to see whether it’s real or not, in fact it has any utility or not and why and how it is emerged.
Firstly it can be told poetry is a feeling of flying-effort from perception to imperception. It is truly a distinctive process of exploring the nature of things and beings that is not likely to the experiencing of science, philosophy, religion, sociology, psychology and so on. It is, in fact, distinguished in its insightfully development, flashing, creativity and natural intellectuality and aesthetic amazement is its object.
With the advancement of time our pre-established ideas, values, senses and thoughts are mostly changed. But these are different from person to person in most cases. These differences may cause poetic complexity in easy meaning or understanding. On the other hand, while a poetry-reader fails to be closed innately with the language, theme, thought or formative style of the poetry, he complains about the complication of the poetry.
In fact, poetry is naturally abstract. Then, an abstract controversy may be caused between poetry and its reader that creates question of complication. However, complexity is not an abnormal, inconsistent or unthinkable idea in the poetic perspectives.
Again, mysteriousness is a cause of meditation that is the real process of introspection. While introspection reaches to its high level, it touches an intuitional truth of feeling beauty. It is absolutely a subjective process. Then, subjectivity may create an anecdotic wall. That’s why, poetic complexity should not be logically complained anyhow.
Poetry has an distinctive ego. It is, in fact, poetry and it is both formed and formless. Both of them form poetry in a body. The antinomy of form and formlessness is the introspection of poetry that explores its nature. It is to depend on its form to have its nature. How elements are needed to have any form, poetry needs have its elements to be formed and so words are the formative elements of poetry. As a body is the bearer of soul, words bear the essence of poetry in the same way.
We can depict word as the corporeality of the poetry that exposes poetic form. Corporeality represents the essence and envelops it too. Despite being exposer of poetry, word makes poetic truth artistically mysterious in a symbolic cover or camouflage. While a reader fails to master it or anyhow match himself with the poetic truth, he complains about its complexity.
Poetry is mostly subjective in nature. But it is not a true barrier between true poetry and true reader if that wall of complexity is not just applied for creating an artificial poetic magic, willingly made an illogical cover or the poetic thought is not puzzled, perplexed, perverted or unthinkably controversial or willingly created complexity anyhow.
Simply to say, it will be not tough for a poetry-reader to approach the poetic truth if a natural flow of thinking is inherently maintained in poetic art. It can be said that If a clear understanding is not possible too, at least an inexpressible aesthetic feeling of amazing beauty would be achieved. It is, in fact, the fruition of poetry. It is true that poetry is cryptic, covert or ambiguous but it is not totally anecdotic or inaccessible rather parallel to understanding and a harmonious expression of aesthetic feelings.
Imputed complexity in poetry may be depicted as a poetic cleverness of repute-loving poet. Quite impractical or impossible appliance of image, symbol or metaphor and obsolete, lexical or stranger word is nothing but a motivated technique of showing poetic magic. This kind of application is mostly unthinkable, confusing or inaccessible. Verses then turn in to a delirium that is a meaningless netting of irrelevant words. If it is to be said poetry, then the stability of poetry would be obviously questionable. If there is no even short-term poetic appeal, then how could be ever or long lasting?
Is it essential to think poetry only subjective? Or, is it too much unpoetical if a poetry could have a meditative imagery like chiaroscuro with keeping poetic subjectivity and reader objectivity in a body? A poetry reader may not have sensitive pleasant but at least he should have a dreamy, subtle or spiritual pleasant of aesthetic feeling. Therefore, no illusive complexity or abstract coherency should be the object of poetry.
