LITERATURE – “A PAINTING OF AN INWARD EYE”

Abstract [English]

After fine arts, literature has been another oldest form of the most creative and powerful means of expression. A writer is the most gifted artist, he is not only a juggler of words, but also a painter who with the same dexterity, portrays life in its most realistic and varied forms. Hence, literature whether poetry, drama, prose or fiction can be considered as the finest of arts. Newman has rightly defined literature as, ‘thought expressed in language’ but certainly this thought needs to be subjective for, all other fine-arts like literature are personal in expression, even though they differ in their media. Hence whether a novelist, poet, painter or sculptor, when create their art it is basically their personal vision which they present or communicate through their chosen medium. The close inter-relation between literature and fine-arts can never be denied, that is why it is said that, ‘a poem is a talking picture, while a painting is mute poetry’. A poet in his creative moments is an inspired being, participating in the eternal and infinite and the one. He tries to arrest the divine moments and tries to redeem them from decay. These inspired moments are transitory for from them arises quick succession of thoughts and feelings. Imagination fades yet it illuminates and paints the composition which bears a reflection to the imagination.