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Lakshmi
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...
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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 19, 20211 min read
One Verse Every Week 'TROCHEE'
Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble. (IV.i.10-11) Remember these lines and the three witch sisters in...
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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 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...
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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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Lakshmi
May 5, 20212 min read
One Verse Every Week 'CAPPING COUPLET'
Capping couplet is one rhymed couplet of two lines, which have the same metre. These are typically found at the end of poems or at the...
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Sarah Mariam Koshy
May 3, 20211 min read
EnvironMental 'NEGLECTED END'
For years and years we only use We take, We break, We start to lose The smoke, the waste, the plastics float We cut, We burn, We drain...
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Lakshmi
Apr 28, 20211 min read
One Verse Every Week 'HEROIC COUPLET'
Heroic couplet is a form of iambic pentameter. They are a pair of iambic pentameters with a rhyming metric template such as aa, bb, cc...
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Lakshmi
Apr 26, 20212 min read
Verse-Seasons 'N Picks 'GOPAL PRASAD VYAS'
क्यों इस राशन के युग में, पानी बेकार बहाऊँ मैं? [In this era of extreme scarcity Why must I let water run out?] Quite serious an issue!...
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Lakshmi
Apr 22, 20211 min read
One Verse Every Week 'FREE VERSE'
Miss Nancy Ellicott smoked And danced all the modern dances; And her aunts were not quite sure how they felt about it, But they knew that...
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Lakshmi
Apr 17, 20212 min read
Verse-Seasons 'N Picks 'JOHN WILMOT, Earl of Rochester'
The first poet featured here on O, John Wilmot, was the second Earl of Rochester. A libertine, the Earl was infamous for his waywardness...
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Lakshmi
Apr 8, 20211 min read
Upon Verse: Q&A
Q. Verse, what is it? A. The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) defines verse as writing arranged with a metrical rhythm, typically having a...
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Lakshmi
Apr 7, 20213 min read
When verse commenced...
The Einstein-Rosen bridge could have brought us to that answer, had it been possible to travel back in time, at least, by now when...
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