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 EXPERIMENTS IN MODERN TAMIL POETRY 99

The cot of our house Brought forth the cradle Vaidyalingam

Some of the new poems offer the visual form like the ‘Pen- dulam’ of John Updike:

U E U E there is heavy rush

Elil Mutalvan

A mode of versification in which there is antithesis of words or ideas dominates in some of the poems =:

We sell the nudity To buy our clothes

N. Kamarasan

If boons become the curses What for here the penance?

Abdul Rahman

Titbits like poems with pungent criticism of the society have appeared: Since she is not pretty She becomes my (younger) sister Kalapriya

Imagism is one of the features of the new poetry:

I see the evening twilight Something is burning in the midst Of the fire of the rays; It’s nothing; It’s the corpse of the sun

Banuchandran �