Page 51 - October 2020

From

Madness to Dr. T. K.Titus

Serenity

Dr.T.K. Titus
worked as Head of Department (English) and
Principal in colleges in Maharashtra.
He is a prize winning author and published
several research papers in reputed journals.
He also wrote extensively for children and
general public. He was a Resource Person at
UGC Refresher Course and National Seminars.
Presently he teaches English at Mar
Augusthinose College Ramapuram.

Rohini Kottu is a poet and cultural critic. This poetry collection is her first
book. Her poems in her words tell “a story we walked past and perhaps
didn’t notice”. Her favorite poem is Robert Frost’s “Stopping by Woods on a
Snowy Evening”. Incidentally, the concluding lines of this poem “The woods
are lovely, dark and deep, But I have promises to keep, And miles to go

before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep” acted as a fountain of
perpetual inspiration and delight for Jawaharlal Nehru, our first Prime
Minister and on whose birthday children’s day is celebrated across the
nation. Pertinently, a passion for poetry is intimately connected to a childlike
innocence and a lively responsiveness to the world around us through our
feelings. The poets throw color and beauty on the ordinary things of
everyday life. Poetry, Frost once observed, begins in delight and ends in
wisdom. The poems in this collection also may have its origin in delight and
they all succeed in offering the readers flashes of insight about the little,
small and ordinary events that we all experience but rather ignore in our
daily life. Life is here and now and capturing its ebb and flow in rhythms and
images is what a poet does.
“Method to My Madness” is an elegantly produced anthology consisting of
thirty two poems, which are striking for the contemporary consciousness,
reflectivity, and modernist technique. The thematic concerns include
transience of love and life, death and eternity, resilience of human spirit, the