Poetry and Magic [by Aakriti]

"I am overwhelmed by the response for the guest posts...thanks to all of you...this one is from another Sagittarian like me, Aakriti...a psychology student who likes to read, write, travel, sing, dance, cook...and ...i can go on writing about her, i wish i had the time....over to her." - SUB


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This is the first time when I’m writing a Guest Post, not for my blog, but for a Bloggyfriend of mine~ SubJ whose posts are a joy reading for the mere reason that they are well researched and feed your brain with all that you could get to eat;) Penning Down from my space  Yarn of~ Words.

Poetry and Magic

“You can teach poetry, but you cannot teach someone to be a poet” – Adam Philips

Here’s saying a nice hi!-To those of you who do not read much poetry and for those of you who love to read and write poetry.

My tryst with the world of words began when I was 13 years old, and this year it’ll be 8 years in this world of words, that is enchanting, mesmerizing and insightful!

(I don’t wish to talk about myself, without further adieu, here I go…)

When I was in school, my very first self-composed poem got published in the Golden Jubilee School magazine, and I was elated! Had to be, as before that I would copy poems from other school magazine, give my name and be happy to see my ‘copied poem undersigned with my name’ in the magazine! Well, that was when I was a kid.

And here, with every prose I began to write, poetry that I would weave and thoughts that I stored in the treasure boxes called ‘words’ I only began to value words - and their essence.

Adam Philips writes in his book Promises, Promises –

“We are all poets, but some are more poetic than others; and it is the difference that makes all the difference”

True, indeed his words are!

Just like, according to Sigmund Freud our mistakes, slips of tongues, slips in misreading or mishearing ( which he calls Parapraxes) have an underlying unconscious meaning in them, similarly poetry is something that beautifully and gracefully presents all your deepest desires, turmoil, conflicts, thoughts and emotions in a way that is not only socially acceptable but appreciable as well.

Before I share with all of you another wonderful line, I would like to share what Sigmund Freud meant by the defence mechanism of ‘sublimation’. It basically is a defence in which the deepest wants, desires which are socially unacceptable get transformed into a form which is rather socially acceptable. So to say if a man as a child was sexually attracted towards his mother, and did not overgrow that feeling, he may as an adult end up making an old age home only for women, thus unconsciously his desire gets presented into a socially ‘acceptable’ form. Similarly Freud says that all works of art, painting, drawing, creative writing, poetry, dance etc. have their roots in the unconscious.

Before you start questioning me on what disgusting thing I just wrote, I would like to share with you that one needs to understand Sigmund Freud well before we criticize him for his pervert thoughts and this my friends takes yearsJ (I’m still learning).

So, Adam Philips yet again, truly writes:

“To be a poet is to be able to make the apparently impossible thing an acceptably pleasurable transgression”

Think over it, and tell me what you have to say on this? :)

I’ll end this guest post with these words of mine-

Stay happy! Stay Blessed!

Aakriti