The
Mechanism of Beauty
It
is uneasy to touch the human depth, but the penetrating poetry can do
it. Mushtaque Barq; the Kashmiri poet is one of the poets whose poems
can touch our deep internal. This very delicate field in the human
experience; I mean the feelings touching cannot occur without a very
special artistic elements in the charming creatures. The aesthetic
system of these affecting elements we called "the mechanism of
beauty."Here, we will seek the aesthetic elements of the
mechanism of beauty system in"Withered Petals"; Mushtaque
Barq poetry collection.
The
Aesthetic Response
Although
everything in the aesthetic response can be explained with textual
elements in it broad term; I mean the pretextual , the textual and
the post- textual (Anwar Jaber, The Literary Expression, 2017), but
that aesthetic response is very complex. The aesthetic response is
simply that special emotional experience which occurs in front of the
aesthetic creature.
The
Primitive and Developed aesthetic response.
The
aesthetic response has a very simple and primitive state which is a
shared and universal experience. This primary aesthetic response is
the very true sign of beauty in a text but in addition to that
experience there is a very developed response. While the primitive
response need nothing but the clear sense, the developed secondary
response need learning and training. There are no cultural
differences in the primitive aesthetic response but that difference
is obvious in the developed aesthetic response. The developed
response is the area of the differences and conflicts. So the
difference between readers level affects the develop aesthetic
experience and not the primitive one. The first step towards the
transfigured aesthetic response is the reader attraction where the
reader finds himself as a part in the poem, then the poem will
transform from the isolated external thing to a very special and
specific thing in regard to the reader. In fact The degree of
response proportionates with degree of reader engagement in the text
(Anwar Jaber, The Literary Expression, 2017).
The
Aesthetic Factors
The
aesthetic response towards an artistry piece needs triggers and these
triggers can b
be
superficial and deep and can be textual and paratextual but the most
important factor is the central presence of the reader in this
complex system. Every aesthetic factor should have the ability to
enhance the intermediate factors between the aesthetic elements and
the emotional responder of our souls. These intermediate factors are
in part material and in the other site spiritual and emotional (Anwar
Jaber, The Literary Expression, 2017). So we have four aspects to
deal with in our attempt to discover the lands of aesthetic response
towards the poems of "Wethered Petals"
The
Superficial aesthetic factors
The
textual aesthetic factors
The
Deep aesthetic Factors
The
paratextual aesthetic factors
The
Superficial aesthetic factors
One
of the most important factors in poetry which has a big effect on the
reader is the whispering disclosure where the author expresses his
message on a very delicate and wavy wings. In the “Prolonged
Tussle” (page 9), Mushatque expresses his disclosure with very
delicate whisper where he says:
“How
this sea is tossing the veils
Like
kohl in her wide open eyes
To
bring night back after sunrise,
Forests
stand on queues, birds on boughs
Her
stare is killing, so her side glances.”
In
these fine piece we find the very smooth description with very lovely
whispered disclosure.
The
Deep aesthetic Factors
The
poet is the writer who can use the mirrors to express his internal.
In fact poetry is a mirror and the author souls is a very faint
shadow of the deep world of this sorcery mirror. The deep emotional
transfiguration is a very artistic expressive experience where the
reader finds himself and shares the poet his feelings and it make the
bridge towards the very potent and long aesthetic response.
In
Mustaque poem “Under the Maple tree” (page 18), we find the deep
emotional transfiguration where the reader feels the true, warm and
expressive world. In this poem the poet says:
“Under
the glum shade of maple
Few
leaves of lost love prostrated.
Pasted
touches of talcum
To
handover much pain painly
Pasted
touches of talcum
Soft
and silky over my cheeks
And
my heart cried mercilessly
Like
fallen leaves under jack boots”
This
effective piece makes the reader sees the deep psychological wold,
and the naked soul of the author and by its very touching strokes
make the readers lives the moments and this is the aim of the
narrative poetry.
The
textual aesthetic factors
In
the “Prolonged Tussle” (page 9), Mushatque colored his poem with
special lexical mood.
“How
this sea is tossing the veils
Like
kohl in her wide open eyes
To
bring night back after sunrise,
Forests
stand on queues, birds on boughs
Her
stare is killing, so her side glances”
The
words; The words; “sea, tossing, veils, kohl, wide,eyes,bring,
sunrise, forests, stand, queues, birds, boughs, stare, glance”;
these words, which are, descend from the positive, celebrating, and
appreciation classes colored the text with their fragrance. A second
textual affecting tool here is the expressive phrases like “is
tossing the veil”, “to bring the night” , “forests stand on
queues” and “her stare is killing.”
The
paratextual aesthetic factors
Poetry
is beautiful not just by its ideas and craft but there is a very deep
artistry factor which is the traveling between the aesthetic fields
and this represents the paratextual aesthetic factors.Poetry is
beautiful not just by its ideas and craft but there is a very deep
artistry factor which is the traveling between the aesthetic fields
and this represents the paratextual aesthetic factors. In fact ever
words has an emotional weight and the artist sees that emotional
aspect and not the linguistic meaning so when he makes his metaphoric
piece, in fact he notes these emotions and not the meaning. By this
artistic process the reader finds himself travelled between the
emotions lands. In Mustaque poem “Under the Maple tree”( page
18), the readers has a trip between the fields of the described
emotions where the poet says:
“Under
the glum shade of maple
Few
leaves of lost love prostrated
Like
autumn leaves before the turf
To
handover much pain painly
Pasted
touches of talcum
Soft
and silky over my cheeks
And
my heart cried mercilessly
Like
fallen leaves under jack boots”
In
the piece, every word and every attribute have its unique emotional
color, and the time of speech makes the text as a river where the
reader has an emotional boat and the author is the boatman. In this
system, the emotional directors have a very important role, where
they guide the reader to the charming lands of beauty(Anwar Jaber,
The literary expression, 2017). You can see “glum“ in “ “the
glum shade of maple, and“ few leave and “lost love ' in “Few
leaves of lost love prostrated”, and “before the turf”in “Like
autumn leaves before the turf”and “painly” in “To handover
much pain painly and so on. These central words don't just meaning
directors; but they are emotional directors also.
