William Goldberg 813
"Love is so short, forgetting is so long." This is a quote from the mind of Pablo Neruda, a now dead poet who once wrote about love in the form of poetry. Now someone else has decided to do such a thing. A controversial poet has become a leader of the A.A.P and refuses to stop writing such beautiful work. I believe that this man's story shows how poetry can save one's life.
Kumar Vishwas attended the intermediate college at his home town of Pilkhuwa. There he fell in love with a close classmate of his, someone who he never wanted to leave. He was eventually admitted into an engineering college, but decided to stop halfway through when he learned that the love of his life had got married and was already settling down with someone else. Vishwas took the realization of never getting to be with her extremely hard, and left with no other option, decided to turn to poetry to close the now gaping hole in his life. He made poetry his life and decided to give it his full commitment. One of his most popular poems is actually inspired by this lost love, it's called "Pagli Ladki". He eventually became a popular poet as well as a politician, learning to deal with loss by focusing on other things.
I felt that this story was a great example of how poetry can save a person's life. It might not do it in the physical sense, but it can easily save the mind. Vishwas was able to recover really using only poetry to hold him up and keep him alive. Without poetry, he most likely would've never been able to find a way to express his true feelings and fight on through his life. I truly do believe that this majestic art form is able to save someone's life just like it did here.
In conclusion, I feel that poetry is capable of keeping a human being alive in terms of emotion. Kumar Vishwas was one of these people that because of this art form, was saved and was able to become the amazing person he is today.
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