Raghavan, Neeraja
(2009)
The Many Colours of the Pen that Writes.
Learning Curve (13).
pp. 98-100.
Abstract
If you regard poetry as being only for 'those need to report about the suitability of the site (for the
people', try watching the film Il Postino project under consideration) as accurately and
(The Postman). A fictional tale woven concisely as possible. The administrator often calls
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around Pablo Neruda , it is a heart-warming upon those (s)he administers to quickly summarise the
story of a postman who goes to deliver letters every day happenings in a meeting so as to help effect speedy
to the poet - and slowly finds the poet within himself decision-making. Parents need, on occasion, to whip
awakening. By the end of that film, the realization that
poetry is nothing but a contact with one's deepest self
slowly begins to dawn in the mind of even the most
diehard sceptic. [That film, in fact, prompted me to
write my first serious poem: and I was amongst those who thought poetry was 'not for me'.]
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