Atomic War, The Nobel-Prize Winning Poet And The Power Of The Rhyme Scheme

The recent Nobel Prize awarded to a poet-musician was significant. This Nobel winner will visit world-leaders as a result of his win, where he may be asked to sing a song. What the world-leader leaves with from the musician-poet's powerful performance is the power of the rhyme, not just in songs, but rhyming also in the narrative of real life events, in that, the world leader as a result of the rhymes of the musician-poet will feel the allure of rhyming, the way rhyming makes certain events significant in songs and in history, and he will want to “create a rhyme” himself by repeating historic events, such as, in a serious example, dropping the atom bomb once again in the same place where it had been dropped the previous time.

The dropping of the atom bombs is perhaps the most significant event in history which is without a rhyme, a repetition. The burden of making history “catchy” falls on the hands of world-leaders, and hence they are well aware of this incomplete or “unattractive” narrative with such a noticeable absence of a rhyme. There is a “drive-to-rhyme” as strong in the poetic world-leader as there is in the rhyming poet-musician. Perhaps the awarding of a significant rhyming poet-musician shows that the pressure or even the compulsion to rhyme by dropping another set of atom bombs is now higher than ever before. We know that we inevitably have to rhyme when we subscribe to a certain "way/style of telling" of the narrative of the world: we have to rhyme when we reach the end of the line in this kind of narration of events. 

Hence in the coming days the Japanese people and the anti-atomic bomb movements may not be all that happy that a rhyming musician-poet has won the recent Nobel Prize. They may try to obstruct this musician-poet from visiting world-leaders for performances. But in the end, other marginalized or lesser-known artists, such as hip-hop/rap artists, who also use rhyme schemes, may in turn be discouraged to produce such art, and thereafter even discouraged from signing up to anti-atomic bomb movements. 

When there will come the moment for a rhyming atom bomb drop is in fact not that difficult to predict, even though it may be more difficult these days given the use of more unconventional rhyme schemes in songs and in societal events. Nepal however can feel safe from atom bombs as long as the use of atom bombs is governed by a rhyme scheme/structure in the narrative of world-history.