Inner and Outer<\/p>\n
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Dheena Subramanian has ambitiously endeavored to fuse the inner and the outer realities of mind in his poetry book, \u201cInner And Outer.\u201d The poet states,\u201d This collection of poems is the outcome of an inner journey trying to explore mysteries of mind and secrets of cosmos.\u201d Philosophical in its approach the book find man\u2019s mind as mysterious and grand as the universe outside it. The poet finds beauties in those mysteries and that may be the salvation for man for all the pain life causes him. The book also has poems on other aspects of life: living, poetry, earth, and other. Most of the poems are easy to understand. They are generally short, which are interspersed with the longer ones. There seems to be no particular order which organizes the poems.<\/p>\n
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The poet right in the beginning says that words are divine. Very well said, as the words for a poet are like the colors for a painter, meaningful to him both intellectually and emotionally like in no other form of writing. In the poem, Well Said, the poet describes the voraciousness of human mind:<\/p>\n
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When stomach is full,
\nIt keeps mum.
\nBut the mind,
\nMore you feed,
\nMore it asks.<\/p>\n
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In the poem, Disappointment, he writes about how a person may fail to remember even his best friend, pushing him to even more loneliness than before. Human desperation and fragility is stated in this line from the poem, Distance: \u201cI long for a hand-cup of water.\u201d Man\u2019s propensity to destroy is depicted in the following line from the poem, Fusion, Fissure Of Life And Death: But, man fissures and fuses atoms to annihilate one and all. Attempt at demystifying life is made in the poem, Prayer:<\/p>\n
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What, after all, I am?
\nEffect of past and
\nCause of future!<\/p>\n
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Another unveiling of life in the poem, Rehearsal: You are a casual byproduct of the entire cosmic dynamics. The value of a song to a human being is very well stated in the poem, Singing Truth:<\/p>\n
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Sing I must,
\nIn song alone
\nTruth appears made,
\nBeautiful, simple and free!<\/p>\n
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Poetic state of mind is described in the poem, Strange:<\/p>\n
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I do not remember it,
\nIts memory is faint, delicate and feeble,
\nLike a shifting boundary line between dream and reality.
\nSometimes dreams appear to be real,
\nYet, other times, reality fades out for dream.
\nTime\u2019s changeling!<\/p>\n
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The mystery of nature is uncovered in the poem ,The Deep:
\nSo many waves
\nAnd so much noise
\nStill, so big a sea in calm and cool!<\/p>\n
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The mystery of human life is described in the poem, Transcendence:
\nContinuity, mystery and eternity
\nWeave web of times,
\nBirth, life, and death!<\/p>\n
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Plumbing the mysterious universe of human unconsciousness in the poem, Unconscious:
\nIt seems to be dark nothingness
\nThat forms the core from a single atom to grand universe
\nFrom simple organism to complex man,
\nLike the vacuous centre of a storm.<\/p>\n
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The poet has beautifully written about the birth of a poem in the poem, Poetry:
\nIt comes only
\nWhen you are no more!
\nExcepting your heart\u2019s beat
\nAnd lungs breathe!<\/p>\n
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When your eyes see nothingness,
\nAnd you mind hears silence,
\nIt comes,
\nOf its own!<\/p>\n
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Reflecting on the effect of time on life and agonizing over the future of mankind in the poem, When?:
\nWhat is the direction?
\nWhere is the promised land?
\nWho\u2019ll be the messiah?
\nWhen\u2019ll be the end of journey or me?<\/p>\n
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In the last poem, Light, the poet describes the mystery, beauty, and power of light: Quiet flows that Light in ever creative harmony!<\/p>\n
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Mr. Dheena Subramanian has assembled a variety of elegant poems, suffused with universal emotions, which touch the heart and make the mind think, and which has been appropriately titled, Inner and Outer. The gamut of intellectualization and poetic emotion has been generously used. The subject is difficult and it lends to reason that a clearer elucidation of the ideas could be made but poetry must have its music and emotion, which may interfere with that.<\/p>\n
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Maharaj Kaul
\n12 Zeck Ct., Suffern, New York-10901, USA
\nMaharaj.Kaul@Yahoo.Com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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