In the Elizabethan age, the age when Shakespeare was writing, the art of writing poetry flourished. Many poets emerged and shared their creativity with the world. With the passage of time, this art witnessed many changes in the hands of people of different temperaments. The neoclassical age marked its sharp hardness in the tender verse. Poets like Pope, Dryden, and Shadwell did, but all to suck the life out of poetry and melt artificial breaths into it. However, his experiment failed to attract future minds. The appearance of the romantic poets drew the red line next to this artificiality of the poem. They chose the way back to nature, its beauty and human emotions. Wordsworth, Coleridge, and the Young Romantics invaded readers’ hearts with engaging lines. However, it is an age-old quality of readers who always want something new. The dawn of the industrial revolution continued into the evening with the coronation of Queen Victoria in 1837. Now in the hands of Arnold, this divine art again developed a new branch; however, the root always remained constant! The ‘sick rush’ and ‘divided goals’ gave a powerful boost to the ramshackle attitude of the people. However, we humans are prone to forgetting!
Lost in the glitter of machinery, readers paid no attention to Arnold’s lectures. Life went on and so poetry. After many years, in 1922, the readers learned the fallacy of life from him. TS Eliot showed a mirror to the audience of him. He forced them to realize that his world was a ‘wasteland’, far from God’s grace! In Eliot’s notebook, the art of writing poetry associated with disgust. Once again, another branch grew, but the root was the same.
Today, we write poems on our laptop screen. Readers (who have advanced further than poets) read poems on their mobiles, pdf readers and other devices. Now the art of writing poetry has become clumsy! There are many things to find in poetry: love, hate, dreams, nostalgia, past, future, science, history, math and much more! It can be difficult for readers to decipher the real meaning of the poem. Furthermore, it seems that the same is the situation for the poets themselves as well. However, the poets write; readers read. The art of appreciation has completely changed. The art of writing poetry has also changed. However, the roots are the same! An urge to describe melancholy or overflowing joy!