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Retrospect

৩১ শে মার্চ, ২০১৫ রাত ১:০৭
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Shahriar Feroze reviews Shams Monwer’s poetic quest for creative excellence...

The collection of poems, named Retrospect peruses not only the writer’s thrive to create but speaks of his imagination and belief. His life and thoughts, according to him, was shown and shaped by no other than the late S.M. Sultan. However, a collection of 39 poems by Shams Monower speaks of a dreamer who has picked up the pen for re-discovering himself and the reality that surrounds him.
Shams the poet sketched reality of post – liberation Bangladesh through the opening poem Liberation. It’s packed with multiple messages complimented with a sharp tone of dissent and grief. It speaks of promises made by our leaders which they failed to deliver and exploits of successive military juntas and the neo-bourgeoisie elite in Bangladesh.
He also referred to fundamentalism, extremism and lawlessness that are starkly noticeable in today’s Bangladesh. Most of them are topped with an idealistic dream of a rebel - but so are many poems in recent times. To many, it may appear to resemble proletariat demands and anguish. However, the poem too, concludes with Sultan’s envisioning of a Bangladesh meant for all.
His heartache to be a part of an unfair social order is farther reiterated in the Survival’s Inconsistent Sanity.
The poet may have worshipped earth, wind and fire in line with his late guru Sultan but at the same time can’t be labelled as an atheist. He seeks refuge from torments and oppressions to god by a number of his poems including prayer; extols his guru Sultan; weave imaginations about choice, destiny and redemption and ruminates over the repeated disillusionment's delivered by newspapers.
One hand bites the dust is composed to remonstrate the killings caused by the western powers to hunt down Bin Laden. But can’t resist from asking the poet, by killing Bin Laden have the US or its allied countries for that matter have really won the War on Terror?
The poet’s sense of erotica seemed to puzzle this reviewer while reading Jargon. The joys of sex must have been explored from firsthand experiences but the similes and metaphors used to express satisfaction seemed too ceremonial. Perhaps, it was my inadequacy to pierce through his poetic lenses.
Nevertheless, poets have immense capabilities to express their thoughts like abstract artists, many of which are either misunderstood or not understood at all. The poet Shams Monwar’s poems appeared like a mix between nonfigurative and concrete expressions. The poet also hasn’t resorted to strictly follow any particular poetic aspects, so assonance, alliteration, ambiguity; onomatopoeia similar to the rhythm may seem strewn. Composed through an open approach Retrospect speaks of a man whose subjects of interest are diversified.
The bottom line is most of Shams’s subjects have already been written about but an attempt to suggest differential interpretation of old subjects or to evoke emotive responses are surely there. Also the poems are not restricted within specific cultures and genres.
The reviewer is a journalist
Published: 2:44 am Monday, February 02, 2015
Last modified: 2:39 am Monday, February 02, 2015Shahriar Feroze reviews Shams Monwer’s poetic quest for creative excellence...

The collection of poems, named Retrospect peruses not only the writer’s thrive to create but speaks of his imagination and belief. His life and thoughts, according to him, was shown and shaped by no other than the late S.M. Sultan. However, a collection of 39 poems by Shams Monower speaks of a dreamer who has picked up the pen for re-discovering himself and the reality that surrounds him.
Shams the poet sketched reality of post – liberation Bangladesh through the opening poem Liberation. It’s packed with multiple messages complimented with a sharp tone of dissent and grief. It speaks of promises made by our leaders which they failed to deliver and exploits of successive military juntas and the neo-bourgeoisie elite in Bangladesh.
He also referred to fundamentalism, extremism and lawlessness that are starkly noticeable in today’s Bangladesh. Most of them are topped with an idealistic dream of a rebel - but so are many poems in recent times. To many, it may appear to resemble proletariat demands and anguish. However, the poem too, concludes with Sultan’s envisioning of a Bangladesh meant for all.
His heartache to be a part of an unfair social order is farther reiterated in the Survival’s Inconsistent Sanity.
The poet may have worshipped earth, wind and fire in line with his late guru Sultan but at the same time can’t be labelled as an atheist. He seeks refuge from torments and oppressions to god by a number of his poems including prayer; extols his guru Sultan; weave imaginations about choice, destiny and redemption and ruminates over the repeated disillusionment's delivered by newspapers.
One hand bites the dust is composed to remonstrate the killings caused by the western powers to hunt down Bin Laden. But can’t resist from asking the poet, by killing Bin Laden have the US or its allied countries for that matter have really won the War on Terror?
The poet’s sense of erotica seemed to puzzle this reviewer while reading Jargon. The joys of sex must have been explored from firsthand experiences but the similes and metaphors used to express satisfaction seemed too ceremonial. Perhaps, it was my inadequacy to pierce through his poetic lenses.
Nevertheless, poets have immense capabilities to express their thoughts like abstract artists, many of which are either misunderstood or not understood at all. The poet Shams Monwar’s poems appeared like a mix between nonfigurative and concrete expressions. The poet also hasn’t resorted to strictly follow any particular poetic aspects, so assonance, alliteration, ambiguity; onomatopoeia similar to the rhythm may seem strewn. Composed through an open approach Retrospect speaks of a man whose subjects of interest are diversified.
The bottom line is most of Shams’s subjects have already been written about but an attempt to suggest differential interpretation of old subjects or to evoke emotive responses are surely there. Also the poems are not restricted within specific cultures and genres.
The reviewer is a journalist
Published: 2:44 am Monday, February 02, 2015
Last modified: 2:39 am Monday, February 02, 2015
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