#13 - A poem for words that don’t exist (like a word for ‘Perfect’ in Hindi)

In this episode, I read - Special Problems in Vocabulary by Tony Hoagland.  It's an illustrative poem, ripe with situations in our lives that we have no words for. It shows you, in a few lines, no more, how deficient language is in capturing the entirety of the human experience. How our words fail us, and without them we feel incomplete. But I say, that is what poetry is for. Were it not for poets across centuries, putting in verse that which was only a fleeting feeling, or an opressive but wordless reality we will indeed feel incomplete. Poems tell us, we are not alone because what we feel has been felt before, has been felt by others. Now listen in, to this excellent poem about "Special Problems in Vocabulary"! :)  I read from the Poetry Foundation website here - https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/58453/special-problems-in-vocabulary The host, Ravneet Bawa as -   @one_third_above on Instagram   @maikeya on Twitter   Email: [email protected]    Disclaimer: This podcast is created for sharing with friends and family, and only as a passion project amidst the Covid lockdown with no commercial interest. In all episodes I read from sources on the public internet or copies of books I possess. The commentary is all my own.