Criticism; Literary Criticism Poem by Bijay Kant Dubey

What is criticism,
How to criticize,
Who a critic?

Criticism is the art of
Making a critique
Constructive and creative.

How to criticize,
What the tools,
How the types of criticism?

Lastly, who is a critic,
One who criticizes
Literary texts and treatises?

But mere criticism is not
Our goal,
Affirmative or negative.

As people do not take it
In the right perspective
If attempt you a constructive criticism.

And if the criticism is in his favour,
He will like
And if not, he will give brick bats.

Instead of getting bouquets
You are expecting,
As many understand it not the objective.

Haven't you heard the thing,
George Bernard Shawian proverb,
Don't smoke, statutory warning?

The words on the cigarette pack
And with those words of caution,
Sold it more packets.

Actually, the critic is not a bad man,
But the judge,
But here the literary judge under our purview.

Criticism thematic, analytical, explanatory,
Thematic, text-based,
Literary or linguistic.

With the tastes different varying
From man to man
As per taste and liking.

If one of a classical temperament
While the other romantic,
While the other of a different liking.

Reading habit too is different,
Some just cast a cursory glance,
Some go through the texts.

Some like the novels,
Some poems
And some short stories.