CONTEMPORARY POETRY :A CRITIQUE OF ART AND SEMANTICS

Abstract

#The paper offers a critique of the creative process and the meaning-making process. It claims that creativity is a kind of mystical activity and is contiguous to an urge to communicate, a communication that is never straight or simple but contingent upon a kind of code. That which has been encoded during the creative process by a soul hallowed and sanctified can be decoded for both enjoyment and enlightenment even by ordinary mortals. The paper concludes that a civilization, and an artifact as an embodiment of that civilization, can best be judged by its amateurs not by the professional experts who tend to develop a technical jargon of their own to place themselves in an indispensable position between the creator and the ordinary reader.