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Lakshmi
Mar 22, 20236 min read
Following World Poetry Day
On World Poetry Day (21 March), as I was preparing to read a poem out loud to be recorded, so that it could be posted on some of the most...
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Lakshmi
Apr 20, 20222 min read
One Verse Every Week 'THE EVERYMAN ARCHETYPE'
There are twelve main literary archetypes derived from Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung's findings. The Everyman is one of the twelve: The...
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Lakshmi
Apr 6, 20222 min read
One Verse Every Week 'THE WIZARD ARCHETYPE'
There are twelve main literary archetypes derived from Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung's findings. The Wizard is one of the twelve: A Wizard...
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Lakshmi
Mar 30, 20222 min read
One Verse Every Week 'THE HERO ARCHETYPE'
There are twelve main literary archetypes derived from Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung's findings. The Hero is one of the twelve: Hero,...
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Lakshmi
Mar 23, 20223 min read
One Verse Every Week 'THE REBEL ARCHETYPE'
There are twelve main literary archetypes derived from Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung's findings. The Rebel is one of the twelve: The Rebel...
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Lakshmi
Mar 16, 20222 min read
One Verse Every Week 'THE EXPLORER ARCHETYPE'
There are twelve main literary archetypes derived from Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung's findings. The Explorer is one of the twelve: The...
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Lakshmi
Mar 9, 20221 min read
One Verse Every Week 'THE INNOCENT ARCHETYPE'
There are twelve main literary archetypes derived from Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung's findings. The Innocent is one of the twelve: As the...
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Lakshmi
Mar 2, 20222 min read
One Verse Every Week 'THE SAGE ARCHETYPE'
There are twelve main literary archetypes derived from Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung's findings. The Sage is one of the twelve: The Sage...
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Lakshmi
Feb 23, 20221 min read
One Verse Every Week 'THE CREATOR/ARTIST ARCHETYPE'
There are twelve main literary archetypes derived from Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung's findings. The Creator/Artist is one of the twelve:...
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Lakshmi
Feb 16, 20221 min read
One Verse Every Week 'THE RULER'
There are twelve main literary archetypes derived from Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung's findings. The Ruler is one of the twelve: The Ruler...
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Lakshmi
Feb 9, 20221 min read
One Verse Every Week 'THE TWELVE LITERARY ARCHETYPES'
Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung identified twelve archetypes to represent the human psyche, which are within the collective human...
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Lakshmi
Jan 19, 20221 min read
One Verse Every Week 'PARADOX'
Irony, oxymoron and now paradox. These are related terminologies and irony is a part of both oxymoron and paradox but as literary devices...
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laxmihere
Dec 22, 20211 min read
One Verse Every Week 'IRONY'
Irony as a literary device is when a situation is is unanticipated or contrary to what is expected or is the reality. When the unexpected...
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Lakshmi
Dec 15, 20212 min read
One Verse Every Week 'IMAGERY'
The terminology itself is quite telling. When you read a piece of literature do you drift into a world those words have painted for you?...
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laxmihere
Dec 9, 20211 min read
One Verse Every Week 'SOLILOQUY'
This, now, is tricky because soliloquy is not simply a verse feature. It, however, can be in verse as well as prose forms. This a feature...
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Lakshmi
Dec 1, 20211 min read
One Verse Every Week 'GENRE'
Genre is the classification of an artwork based on the work's style, subject matter, form, tone and so on. While poetry is one of the...
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Lakshmi
Nov 24, 20211 min read
One Verse Every Week 'MOTIF'
Motif supplements the theme of a piece of work. It is a recurring idea or action or image or word or symbol in a piece of work, which...
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Lakshmi
Nov 17, 20211 min read
One Verse Every Week 'THEME'
It is what is the underlying idea or meaning of a text. We are used to being asked after having read a book, or a story or watched a...
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Lakshmi
Nov 10, 20211 min read
One Verse Every Week 'MOOD'
Now, we know what tone is as a literary device. It is quite often confused with mood. Mood is what the reader and/or audience experience...
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Lakshmi
Nov 3, 20211 min read
One Verse Every Week 'TONE'
What does one mean when one says, "I didn't like his tone." or "Don't you dare speak to me in that tone!" or "That song has a happy...
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