Abstract

A poet, his mission, his making and evolution and various definitions of purposes of composition of poetry will be delineated. The spiritual, philosophical and social conditions and their influence in the making and evolution of poet and writer and their craft will be dealt with. The duty of poets, critics and readers in the celebration of composition of poetry and literature as part of culture and civilization will be presented. The committed and free-lance poets will be compared and contrasted. The poet and his relation to composition of poetry in view of the poet's social, emotional and intellectual makeup will be elaborated. Also the writers and poets all over the world are suffering from unwritten censorship implemented by governments, terrorists, zealots of - religion, region, caste, community, gender- like historical and natural divisions. The Travails of literary creation and creators will be discussed. A critical observation on this will be presented together with experiences of the author - physicist - as a poet.