The Line Of Difference - How To Create Effective Write Ups, Writing Tips By Alok Mishra, Editor-in-Chief at Ashvamegh Journal

Writing is a subject that stands in an ambiguous position. You will get many ideas and notions about it from different people you talk. Diverse is the word that one can use for writing; for some, it is wrath, and for others, it is love. Nevertheless, at the bottom, writing is the complex mixture of emotions and thoughts.

In this article, I will try to explore the different options that might help you in develop a good writing style. This article covers the method of writing in general; however, it might seem to tend towards literary writing.

Know your audience: It always helps. Once you have the idea about the purpose of your writing, you have only the next half mile to go! It is clear that an answer you attempt in examination and an article you write for your blog will be different. The first will reach the desk of a university don, and the other will get exposure to a worldwide readership. Where is the line of difference? You can better understand this difference by an example.

Let us suppose that a person has to describe the experiences garnered in a journey. She has to post the writing on her travel blog, along with the videos she recorded with her friends. Should it be formal and within an academic frame of writing? Will it attract the readership if she writes it in an answering manner? The answer is no! The writing style will shift according to the target. The girl will have to make it informative, attractive, flexible and at the same time funny. This blog will have to possess something about everything that can hold everyone who comes to have a reading session. It might sound a difficult task. However, it is easy to do. Let us consider:

Coming from the suburban area of Bihar, it was almost frightening for me to see people crossing the road going towards India Gate. The road was full of speeding vehicles. People, nevertheless, walked across it as they did not notice anything at all. I followed them silently and walked the distance of two kilometers joyfully. I could see the India Gate shining red from a long distance. As more I walked, as more the excitement in my heart increased. Soon, I was standing 20 meters away from the engineering that recapitulates the sacrifice of hundreds of martyrs. I could listen to all the stories my father told me about India Gate reverberating in my mind. I stared at the flame burning in the center. The breeze blowing surrounding was enhancing the beauty of that flame. There was a military person standing near it. I took a slow walk around the India Gate in almost a hypnotized state. Then moving around, I found could see people trying to imprison the moments of this memorable journey in images. It is a good practice, by the way. Images remain with us after the journey ends. All others we meet, move away! Time passed; the Sun turned red. Eventually, it vanished from the Western sky leaving the people and India Gate between light and darkness. I, once again, became a part of the rush and joined the journey towards the bus stop.

This short example, I think, will serve the purpose. You can notice that there is no obligation. You can add anything you want, save it synchronizes with your theme and ideas.

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Thoughts on the poetry, theory, and a poet by Alok Mishra

The world has moved far ahead of the Wordsworthian age. Now, you are not in a position to expect sheer romantic verses romancing with nature from a poet. In fact, even a versatile figure like T. S. Eliot seems out of the context in the present scenario. Why did the circumstances change? To be able to be in a position from where you can ponder about the current developments in English poetry, you have to think certain facts.

In the past, there used to be a parallel line that connected the creation and theory. By theory, I mean the literary theory of a particular age. Several instances are the neo-classical theory, romantic theory, and post-modern theory. For the clarity of thoughts, the romantic theory dominated later eighteenth and early nineteenth century. Poets were producing the works that moved along with it. Keats, Byron, Shelley, and others wrote great romantic poems. However, what is the theory that governs today's poetical canvas? Thinking from another side of the thread, what theory do the poets keep in mind when they compose? Apparently, there is no theory today! I remember to have read in a book of literary theory that the present age, in fact, is a no-theory age. Poets enjoy the liberty to write what suits them.

Getting into the debate to a further level, the social and cultural conditions, that are somehow disordered, add additional pain to the writing of poets. The question of any 'how,' if it arises at any level, may seek an answer in the poem by Harold Pinter - "Modern Love". The poem describes the absence of feeling from the act of love. Moreover, it also shows the disgust of poet for the soulless society.

There is a classic phrase that like gets like. The life of modern people has actually become lifeless. That, a poet is someone from the society is an inevitable truth! Now, what a poet will write will be the same that he feels and observes.

"The hollow eyes,

scrutinizes the hollow apartments

hiding the hollow men

inside."

What else can one expect from a poet? The seeds of this hollowness on the pages of poetry have the roots in ancient times. Matthew Arnold and his 'melancholy roar' depicts the story well. T. S. Eliot further protracted the story by adding his wrath in that roar. Today, the poets are in a quandary over what to write and what to avoid. They have much to write; they have much to avoid!

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Revisiting The Waste Land: Article-cum-Review of T S Eliot's Poetry by Alok Mishra, Editor-in-Chief, Ashvamegh International Journal

The Waste Land will never be out of the shrunk circle of literature. By shrunk circle, I mean those literary pieces that have kept the attention of readers from the beginning. It has been almost hundred years of the publication of the masterpiece of the twentieth century. It was fresh then; it is fresh now; it will remain fresh forever. The chants that start from the cruelest month of April and go on to the dry rainy season still relate to the current human society. Eliot, of course, knew how to create a forever masterpiece!

The Waste Land takes the course of negative preaching. From the beginning, the poem takes you the darker side of the world. The darkness of the world is the creation of human society, none else. The darkness was visible in the age when Eliot wrote the poem. The darkness has deepened today, amid the industrial and material developments. Going with the pace our world is moving, the darkness will overtake the sunlight... when shall it happen?

Eliot wept for the degeneration of human society, loss of human emotions, the futility of war, and collapsing faith. He must have hoped for improvement in the coming future. Nevertheless, the Hiroshima disaster in the second world war subverted his hope! What do the instances of modern warfare and terrorism prove? People do not want to water the waste land. Human society has evolved a mechanism to enjoy the flowers of cactus and despise the freshness of rose.

What shall a poet do? Poetry had to serve for delight as well as for wisdom. It seems, however, people have forgotten to extract the lessons from poetry. They take it only for pleasure. In this context, The Waste Land must have served the world as the howl of a hurt poet! The human society could not understand the prudence of Eliot. The intelligent social animals failed to adapt the message of Shantih Shantih Shantih. They could not understand the wisdom of Eliot who prescribed the world the panacea in the form of da, datta, and dayadhvam.

I am in a dilemma over the poem The Waste Land. Was Eliot really capable of creating the masterpiece? Or he just understood that this world has become insane and would never come back to the track, and beat the drum of degenerating humanity. Either way be the case, we should accept our defeat in the hands of Eliot. Shall the world ever change?

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Successful Launch of Seventh Issue of Ashvamegh International Journal

Dear members, contributors, visitors and our well-wishers,

It has been a pleasure coupled with the arduous effort to bring out the August Issue of our Journal, Ashvamegh.

However, we have done it! We are very pleased to announce the launch of our seventh successful issue in a row - issue VII. You can peruse and have your precious suggestion for us at http://ashvamegh.net. 

With a great enthusiasm, we also announce that this is our first issue with the ISSN! You can share and let the world know about us. 

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Thank You

AM

(Alok Mishra

Editor-in-Chief

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