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ఆంధ్రకవిత్వచరిత్రము
షష్ట
నవసరములు నని వాదించిరి. వాట్పుడంటన్ పండితుఁడు “కవిత్వ” మనువ్యాసమున కవికల్పితపద్య ఛందోగతి కతీతమగు ప్రకృతి ఛందోగతి (Rhythm of Nature) యున్న దనియు, నయ్యది పిట్టల కలకలమునందును, సముద్ర తరంగములధ్వని
యందును, వాయు నాదముల యార్బాటములందునను ధ్వనించు చుండుననియు నట్టి ప్రకృతి ఛందోగతి పద్యమునకును, గద్య మునకునుగూడ కలదని వాదించిన యీ వాక్యములు సరసులకు గ్రాహ్యములు:--
Perbaps it may be said that deeper than all rhythms of art is that rhythm which art would fain catch the rhythm of nature; for the rhythm of nature is the rhythm of life itselfThis rhythm can be caught by prose as well as by poetry, such prose, for instance, as that of the English 'Bibler Certainly the rhythm of verse as its highest, such, for instance, as that of Sbakespear's greatest writings, is nothing more and nothing less than the metre of the energy of the spirit which surges withid the boson of him, who speaks, whether he speaks in verse or in impassioned prose. Being rhythm, it is of course governed by law, but it is a law which transcends in subtlety the conscious' art of the metricist and is only caught by the poet in his most inspired moods, a law, which being part of nature's own. Sanctions, can of course never be form mulated but only expressed as it is expressed in the melody of the bird, or in the inscrutable harmony of the entire birdchorus of a thicket, in the wbisper of the leaves of the tree and in the song or wail of wind and sea. Now is not this rhythm of nature represented by that "Sense rhythm" whic prose can catch as well as poetry ?
