ON ANANYA S GUHA'S POEMS

Ananya S Guha’s  poems  see beyond things, behind things as they appeared to the world. It is keen on an aesthetic attitude that can transform life into a different experience. When this attitude becomes fully developed, then this world of darkness, of mystery difficult to penetrate, resolves itself into a perennial harmony and rhythm. A new music, divine and earthly alike can be heard in tremendous measure. He thinks plainly from simple experience-that experience may be real or imagined-but from experience, he passes on to an idea of universal application, an idea that can soon pass into reality, into a life of joy and fulfillment. That is how he combines imagination with reality. He is not a poet of escape, but of life itself. Reality passed into his thoughts, into his feeling. And as it comes out from his poems, it becomes transformed into a thing of literary and artistic value. There is beauty born out of reality in his poems, and this beauty delights and instructs simultaneously for all time. What he writes is the near thing, an embodiment of life, communicated most lovably. With a deep faith in the real , and passionate feeling for everything in nature, he reaches the height communion with it, which brings him out of himself. He has given expression to this intense feeling in many of his poems. It seems as if the poet had spoken the very words that the reader had so long been searching for; had sung the very music that had been struggling as it were; to flow out of their own hearts. His poems show how depth can be wedded to simplicity. It is not a mere matter of feeling or expression , it is the creation of form.

Life is real and it is to be lived. There is beauty, and it is hidden from us. We have to train our eyes to see beauty in apparent ugliness. This is the undercurrent in Ananya S Guha’s poems.