Boey kim cheng
(born in 1965) is a singapore born australian poet. he is of chinese descent. he is widely regarded as on of the most promising poets to emerge in the 1990s. boey has published four collections of poetry for his artistic achievements he received the 'National arts council young artist award
in 1996 he tataught for thirteen years at the university of newecastle in australisa in 2016 he joined nanayeng technological university as an associate professor at its school of humanities and is currently head of english department he is the boyes works are highly regtarded by both the academic and writing communities in singapore.
The poet begins the poem by stating what the planners do. as the poem proceeds we came to know the planners achieve what they aim for towards the poem the poet depicts h9ow the planning has affected the poet boey kim cheng is talking about fast develpoing modern singapore he laments on the disturbing and lass of humane element in his
surrounding he becomes nosalgic about his bonding with the old city we all can hear the echoes of his words in our own hearts when we come across ssuch modernizatton around us we may sympaties of modernisation have numbed his heart the free verse from of the poem is suitable to the free expressions of the poet's feelings.
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