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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 13, 20221 min read
One Verse Every Week 'THE JESTER ARCHETYPE'
There are twelve main literary archetypes derived from Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung's findings. The Jester 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 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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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
Sep 8, 20211 min read
One Verse Every Week 'ALLITERATION'
In literature, when the same initial consonant (in some cases even vowel) sounds are repeated in successive or closely placed syllables...
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Lakshmi
Aug 4, 20211 min read
One Verse Every Week 'INTERNAL RHYME'
Internal rhyme, too, is an aural rhyme, where similar sounding words or syllables occur within the same line multiple times, such as in...
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Megha S. Sunder
Jul 22, 20211 min read
On O's Stage 'THOPPIL BHASKARA PILLAI'
There was a time when theatre was central to the cultural dimension of the society in Kerala. The playwright Thoppil Bhaskara Pillai or...
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Lakshmi
Jul 10, 20212 min read
On O's Stage 'EFUA SUTHERLAND'
Efua Sutherland did not just begin writing after inspiring ideas and thoughts nudged her mind or after scribbling about. It was...
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Lakshmi
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...
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Lakshmi
Jun 23, 20211 min read
One Verse Every Week 'ANAPEST'
Anapest is antidactylus because it is the reverse of dactyl. What is dactyl? Refer to O's earlier commentary on dactyl, or let us simply...
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Lakshmi
Jun 9, 20211 min read
One Verse Every Week 'PYRRHUS'
Like an iamb, a trochee, and a spondee, a pyrrhus, too, is a type of foot in a metrical feet. While a spondee is a pair of stressed...
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Lakshmi
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...
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Megha S. Sunder
May 20, 20212 min read
On O's Stage 'CHIKAMATSU MONZAEMON'
The acute attention to detail that the Japanese culture lends to every aspect of their life is unmistakable. One such aspect is Bunraku,...
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Lakshmi
May 13, 20211 min read
One Verse Every Week 'FEMININE-ENDING BLANK VERSE'
A blank verse with a feminine ending is, not the standard ten-syllabic metre, instead, one more than the ten, ending with an additional...
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Lakshmi
May 7, 20211 min read
Verse-Seasons 'N Picks 'FRIEDRICH von SCHILLER'
Although celebrated as one of the greatest playwrights, Schiller is first a poet. Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller was a German...
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