On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 8:02 PM, Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan <chandrachoo...@gmail.com> wrote: > Much as I like the marundeeswarar and much as I don't like the MRTS > station, your comparison doesn't hold true. Temple poetry is more about > exaggeration of the attributes of the diety and less of architectural > critique.
I can see poetry in imagining a time when this place was covered with forest, and the imprint of man was vanishingly small - and out of it arose a tower like no other, made brilliant by lines of oil lamps - built with muscle and sinew - a paean to faith - towering over the trees of the forest and adding its brass timbre to the chorus of the birds. Man's voice as a challenge to nature. The MRTS evokes only the poetic character of yesterday's putrefying vomit.
