Bhubaneswar: India is itself a poetry and Rigveda is the ancient poetry of the world. The source of poetry is written in Rigveda, said Speaker of Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly Hriday Narayan Dikshit while addressing the fourth day of 39th World Congress of Poets (WCP) at Puri Saturday.
“I have marked pleasure in everyone’s face in this World Poet Congress said,” Dikshit while inaugurating the spiritual poetry session of 39th WCP at Puri. Spiritual poetry is the connection between mortal and immortal, Brahma and Param Brahma, he stated adding, where there is poetry, there is God. In India there are so many ancient poets and poetries. “Our spiritual poetry is the guiding force to our life,” he added. There is no poetry like India in any other civilisation or land. The river, mountain, forests everything in India is the source of poetry. These are the image of poetry, said the UP Assembly Speaker. “There is similarity between Odisha and Northern India. Odisha is so beautiful in all respect like northern India. Every state of India, Language, culture, tradition all are poetry,” he said.
In his talk titled ‘What does Poetry Make?’, Dilip Naik, Professor, English & Foreign Language University, Hyderabad delved upon this complex question with inferences from writings of some of the greatest poets of all times. He compared the views of famous poets over the ages – Osip Mandelshtam, Adorno, Auden and others – on this question.
Poetry gifts the possibility of a different form of life, a meta-history of experience which emanates from the intersection of time with the timeless. Poetry enables us to trust in the grace of existence, Naik concluded.
Among others Maurus Young, President of WCP, Ernesto Kahan, First Vice President, World Academy of Art & culture, Maria Eugenia Soberanis, General Secretary, World Academy of Arts & culture and Eminent writer and poet and former MP Prasanna Patsani were present on the occasion.