I can see the MRTS evoking some Marxist / North Korean poetry.
On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 8:15 PM, Srini RamaKrishnan <[email protected]>wrote: > On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 8:02 PM, Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Much as I like the marundeeswarar and much as I don't like the MRTS > > station, your comparison doesn't hold true. Temple poetry is more about > > exaggeration of the attributes of the diety and less of architectural > > critique. > > > I can see poetry in imagining a time when this place was covered with > forest, and the imprint of man was vanishingly small - and out of it > arose a tower like no other, made brilliant by lines of oil lamps - > built with muscle and sinew - a paean to faith - towering over the > trees of the forest and adding its brass timbre to the chorus of the > birds. Man's voice as a challenge to nature. > > The MRTS evokes only the poetic character of yesterday's putrefying vomit. > >
