I am all for using non-English words when no other will do, but feel they should be used in such a way that the meaning is clear. I must admit that I was surprised that Siva didn't know 'cumulonimbus' as it appears (or used to) in geography/science books. It has a nice fat sound to it that describes the shape wonderfully.
Where context alone does not serve, then footnotes are needed, even though they make the page look untidy. I used to draw a line across the bottom of the page and insert the footnotes below, thus creating a visual barrier so that the shape of the poem was not disturbed. But then I began as a graphics designer; the appearance of the page is important to me. And anyone reading Jeet Thayil's poem 'Skewed' (English) will see how the suspension bridge shape of the poem when seen sideways on is such that nothing should interfere with the visual effect.
The argument of footnotes vs
glossary vs nothing at all still rages.
It was good idea to put in the links, a great help to the lazy.
jane
temporal t <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
temporal t <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Siva:no need to apologize as a newbie what i have reckoned here is that this is the place to gather reactions to works in progress and it is in this spirit i submitted this poem am still getting my feet wet herein a way i have cocooned myself away for quite some time so 'returning' is a ginger process and this has become a bit more interesting when a friend suggested this site have been lurking here for a few weeks as a current dweller of the frozen north removed from the hustle bustle of the motherland since many decades with a double jeopardy (from the wrong side of the divide) and as one not familiar with quite a few words and phrases used here almost casually e.g.Yama, satsang, shantam (my shortcoming not blaming the poets) i decided to provide a footnote or a link do this all the time when i use urdu/hindi words in english poems and provide foot notes for readers not familiar with themVivek:thanks shall respond to your comments shortlyrgdst
On 11/25/05, siva_ramanathan04 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Sehra Nawad
I apologise for my hasty and prejudiced outburts.More than feeling
ashamed of what I thought and wrote,I take this as an opportunity for
reading Vivek's analysis and comments.
And thanks Vivek.I do not know how I did not connect up these words
and I was lazy to refer a dictionary.
T.K.D.used to tell me[T.K.Doraiswamy ,[alias Nakulan]to read and
re-read before forming an opinion.
Sivakami Velliangiri
--- In [email protected], "Desert Dweller/Sehra Navard"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> word rosary*: perceptions
>
> idle summer afternoon
> basket and riedel* beside
> we lie by the winding brook
> hear water flutter
> blades rustle in breeze
> birds chirp behind the trees
> oblivious we interpret cumulonimbus*
> and whisper to each other
> what we read in their form
> i see a child -- she a woman
> sad survivor -- hut afire
> man betrayed -- woman abused
> our differing perceptions and
> the same cumulonimbus*
>
> word rosary is a series of poems on word impact that i have be
writing.. this is one of them.
>
> cumulonimbus
>
> riedel
>
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