The Poetic genius of Abdul Rahman

He carries a factory of Images in his mind. A kaleidoscopic variety of images are produced instantly when he presents anything even in a casual manner.

How many kinds of images? Concrete, abstract, visual, auditory, full-fledged,

Broken, explicit or obscure and so many kinds can be seen abundant in his poems which make them so much denser in meaning and it is often misunderstood as obscure.

Abdul rahman is an avant-gardist. Technical innovation and thematic surprise are the predominant literary principles underlying his creative process. By constantly employing sophisticated and innovative techniques he makes his poems look like statues carved out of ivory.

He is a profound scholar in traditional literature and an adept in modernist techniques. His traditional knowledge does not bar him in his deconstruction of universal symbols in his poems.

His poems predominantly contain intellectual appeal. But he is concerned to appeal to the head and heart simultaneously, whereas his modernist techniques hinder the average reader from grasping the emotional elements instantly.

The popular notion that ‘Poetry can not be translated” is cent percent correct in the case of Abdul rahman’s poems, .It is highly impossible to give a sincere translation which adopts loyalty to the manner and matter of his poems.

While every word in its order gives deep meaning in his poems if we shift the words, as the syntax becomes different in English, the inner beauty gets distorted.