This document summarizes a presentation titled "Poetics versus the republic in the voice of a poet" by Foram Vyas for their English seminar paper. The presentation discusses how a poet, Praveen Gadhavi, uses multi-layered poems to explore age-old subjects like Plato's banning of Sophocles' plays in The Republic, showing how a poet's ideology cannot be destroyed. It concludes by quoting Bhagat Singh that any attempt to destroy an ideology instead results in its creation.