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CHANDIGARH STORIES
Poettry the
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art
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Chandiga
arh, May 20
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In an exclusive prog
gramme org
ganised at Art
A Folio in S
Sector 9, a fformer Princ
cipal of the
Chandiga
arh College of Architectture, Dr S.S
S. Bhatti, ga ve a highly informative
e exposition of
the architectonics off poetry.
He demo
onstrated ho
ow such term
ms as syllab
ble, metre, rrhythm, rhy
yme, beat, ttempo and
pattern, though fam
miliar, are no
ot identified by the unin
nitiated with
h the essenttial structure
e of
poetry. He
H wondered how a vas
st majority of
o harmony does not re
espond to poetry despitte
the fact that poetry is an exclus
sive art form
m that sprin gs from the
e heartbeats
s of life.
Even the
e word, Uni--verse, he pointed out, means thatt the cosmos maintains
s its essentia
al
unity bec
cause, at bo
ottom, it is one
o
magnificent poem. Himself a w
widely acclaimed poet, who
has also been award
ded the fam
mous Editors
s Choice Aw
ward by the A
American Po
oetry
Associatiion, Californ
nia, USA, Drr Bhatti laid the base off his talk po
oetry appreciation and
recitation
n of poems by first ske
etching the etymologica
al context o
of the fine arrt of poetry.
Poetry was
w born when the prim
mitive man began
b
to dan
nce in the ce
elebration o
of life to the
crude be
eats of the im
mprovised drums,
d
he said,
s
adding
g that poetrry is a virtua
al dance in
words. Justifiably th
he crowning glory of the
e 64 fine artts, poetry, D
Dr Bhatti said, is the
crowning
g glory of all art, as it is
s the closestt to heart and to life. B
Born as it wa
as out of the
e
mans urrge to give another
a
shape to depre
ession or to elation, poe
etry is an ex
xtension of llifes
most hea
art-felt feelings, renderred in some sort of a m
musical patte
ern that furtther adds
melody to
t itself as itt is repeated
d in a rhythmic style, sso basic to p
poetry.
Dr Bhattti also recite
ed his own poems
p
to show how mu sic is wedde
ed to melod
dy. Through the
verses re
ecited at Artt Folio, Dr Bhatti
B
proved that poetrry is music iin words or,, more
precisely
y, is the art of painting word picturres.