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As per the rules laid down by Bharata in the 4th or the 5th century A.D., Bhāṇa, described by him in Chapter 19 of Nātyaśastra, is a monologue spoken by a dissolute hero called viṭa, dialogue is simulated by having the viṭa respond to imagined voices or asking questions of unseen characters and repeating their answers to the audience ...
Oral-formulaic theory in Anglo-Saxon poetry refers to the application of the hypotheses of Milman Parry and Albert Lord on the Homeric Question to verse written in Old English. The theory proposes that features of at least some of the poetry may be explained by positing oral-formulaic composition , meaning that poets have a store of verbal ...
While the Exeter Book was found in a cathedral library, and while it is clear that religious scribes worked on the riddles, not all of the riddles in the book are religiously themed. Many of the answers to the riddles are everyday, common objects. There are also many double entendres, which can lead to an answer that is obscene.
Though individual examples of English free verse poetry surfaced before the 20th-century (parts of John Milton's Samson Agonistes or the majority of Walt Whitman's poetry, for example), [2] free verse is generally considered an early 20th century innovation of the late 19th-century French vers libre.
The awful shadow of some unseen Power Floats through unseen among us, – visiting This various world with as inconstant wing As summer winds that creep from flower to flower. – Like moonbeams that behind some piny mountain shower, It visits with inconstant glance Each human heart and countenance; Like hues and harmonies of evening
Examples from classical and modern poetry illustrate how poetry achieves its purposes: to teach, to move, and to delight the reader. Proceeding from the work of scholar Julius Caesar Scaliger (1484–1558), Scott dwells upon the four virtues of poetry, which apply to the poet's choice of matter (genus) and style of writing, noting that Scaliger:
Title Page of a 1916 US edition. A Child's Garden of Verses is an 1885 volume of 64 poems for children by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson.It has been reprinted many times, often in illustrated versions, and is considered to be one of the most influential children's works of the 19th century. [2]
Punctuation is an object of interpretation in poetry; it is semantic. [4] In poetry, they act as non-verbal tools of poetic expression. A form of artistic choice, the poet's choice of punctuation is central to our understanding of poetic meaning because of its ability to influence prosody. The unorthodox use of punctuation increases the ...