Comments on: Blue

By: Nitin Gupta

Nitin Gupta — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 08:14:17 +0000

No, certainly not I don’t know how or when did comments get disabled! Fixed it now – look forward to your comments.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 06:01:06 +0000

Why you disabled the comments for your next poem. Sacred from critics ?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 02:16:13 +0000

No problem, Good Writers should be appreciated. By the way what time zone is this?

By: Nitin Gupta

Nitin Gupta — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 01:52:56 +0000

@Anonymous: You have made a good point. When we express something and the other person perceives it differently than our original intention, it is considered an indication that there was a disconnect between expression and perception, and something needs to be corrected. But as you said, with poems, this is not necessarily true, and it may be a good thing to have room for an open-interpretation. Thanks for bringing this up.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:53:51 +0000

I like your poem thats the reason I made the comment. Its ok if readers perceive it differently its not an advertisement. You don’t have to say “Please tell me that’s not right”.

The good thing about poems is that it liberates you to the world of imagination. Poet could be a seed but trees are built by the readers.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:35:26 +0000

Thanks for the clarification. As I said earlier every poet has some imagination in his mind and Poetry is so abstract that every reader perceive it by their imagination.

The reason we differ is the mix of genders in the poem.

Accident! blood stains on “his” arms!
Holy “cow”! “he” feels so blue!!

When u say “his” I perceived it as a man but when u say “cow” it symbolizes me to a female, something gentle full of innocence.

Then there is again a “he” but the “cow” was so captivating for me that I could not relate her with “he and his”. If you would have used “she and her” instead of “he and his” I might have imagined something closer to your imagination.

I agree by referring man as “he” but comparing it with “cow ” is not fitting well. As you need to fit an innocent victim “Cow” is a good metaphor but she is just not fitting well with a man.

By: Nitin Gupta

Nitin Gupta — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 03:30:55 +0000

@Anonymous: reading your comment again, it seems like you thought a “Cow” was hit in the accident! Please tell me that’s not right. If that’s indeed the case, let me clarify that there is no cow in the scene.. another human was hit by the driver. If you are confused by “Holy Cow!” — it’s just my way of expressing astonishment.

By: Nitin Gupta

Nitin Gupta — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 03:22:11 +0000

@Anonymous: Sure, everyone has his own perception! but I couldn’t understand where exactly we differ.. I wasn’t able to fully understand your comment. Please add some more details if possible.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 01:15:55 +0000

Its not Drivers mistake may be we are living in a world, where we hide our faults over others mistakes. Defenders were human the same race as of Driver but there was no one from Cow’s race to protect her.

Well every poet has his own perception.