Magin_Edward-thesis

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EM: What are the other subjects you write about?
MQ: He doesn’t believe in pure subject in poetry, as seen if you read his poetry,
his poems. You can see a mixture of subjects because in the previous days in rural areas,
for example, if you were a shepherd, you’d go outside to take care of your sheep and then
you’d come back. But now, if we go outside in this urban setting, we don’t know what we
will do. For example, if he goes home, maybe a neighbor will have a car accident and he
will go to see him. Or perhaps someone has a newborn baby, or someone has died. So he
says our feelings now are confused. We don’t have fixed style and he doesn’t have a pure
subject to write about. And when he wrote, many times when he’d write poetry, he would
cry and the paper would get wet. So he would tear it out and get another piece of paper,
because a different subject would come into his mind.
Another feature of his poetry is paradox, when two different things become just
like each other. For example, in one of his poems he says, hatred and love inside me
become like each other. So there were moments in his life that hatred and love are just the
same, and also death and life.
EM: So none of your poems are in the Neo-classical form, is that correct?
MQ: Not all of them.
EM: He has some in Neo-classical form?
MQ: So this is an example that shows he has the Neo-classical form. These are
here for documentation.
EM: But presently you don’t write anything in Neo-classical form?
MQ: No, now he is not a classic poet. Now he is, you can say, he’s a warrior
against everything. For example, everything that is low he wants to make it high. And he
doesn’t care about meter and rhythm or anything. He just leaves the image. Even the
buildings in our city, he says, “I’m against them. I have a different idea in my mind. I live
with them.” He sees that our buildings, our traffic lights, all things are trivial―even
social values are trivial for him. He’s against them, I mean.