What Is Poetry? - A Study In O.P.Bhatnagar’s Poetry Poem by Bijay Kant Dubey

What is poetry? Poetry is oneirism,
absent-mideed dreaming while awake,
Oneiric visions and dreams,
Daydreaming
And O.P.Bhatnagar keeps to dreaming
As thus.

Poetry as the fact and fiction of life,
Living in modern times
And feeling the eight of the hours,
Tragic situations and circumstances
Of living;
Incorporative of angst, bewilderment and loss.

Poetry as an art,
Involving the vison of craft,
Moving closer to social poetry
And on marking this,
The angels retreating;
Poetry in the similes and metaphors
Of life.

Poetry as a search for
And feeling of fossils,
The residues of meaning,
Thought, idea and reflection,
The making and unmaking of a sand-dune;
Poetry as thought poems,
The application of wit and irony.

A tragic poet of the tragic times,
Full of malaise and spiritual annihilation,
Fall in standard and degradation;
One of the urban space
And living,
Telling of modern-age deaths and living,
The cruelty inflicted upon
And with which one survives and lives on to gather strength.