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Sep 22, 20211 min read

One Verse Every Week 'DISSONANCE'

In poetry, dissonance, is a powerful and useful literary device, employed by poets, although dissonance disrupts the harmony of vowel...

Jun 30, 20211 min read

One Verse Every Week 'QUALITATIVE METER'

When studying English poetry, repeated mention of terminologies such as, stressed syllable and unstressed syllable are hard to miss, and...

Jun 24, 20212 min read

Verse-Seasons 'N Picks 'HENRY DAVID THOREAU'

Had we began our conservation drive, at least, as early as Thoreau had insisted upon it our young activist Greta Thunberg could have...

Jun 3, 20211 min read

One Verse Every Week 'SPONDEE'

Like an iamb and a trochee, a spondee, too, is a type of foot in a metrical feet. In a spondee one stressed syllable follows another...

May 20, 20212 min read

Verse-Seasons 'N Picks 'LEIGH HUNT'

The glad demeanour and mischievous tones in Hunt's most shared and well known poems must come from the cheerful, sensitive and perceptive...

May 11, 20212 min read

Verse-Seasons 'N Picks 'Mahakavi KUMARAN ASAN'

Kumaran Asan was awarded the title Mahakavi (great poet), by Madras University in 1922. When the evils of caste system had cast its...

Apr 20, 20211 min read

On O's Stage 'SOR JUANA INÉS DE LA CRUZ'

At, O, we kickstart this section by celebrating and applauding this seventeenth century Spanish writer, ahead of all our other great...