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Lakshmi
- Mar 22
- 6 min
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, 2022
- 2 min
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, 2022
- 2 min
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, 2022
- 2 min
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, 2022
- 3 min
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, 2022
- 2 min
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, 2022
- 1 min
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, 2022
- 2 min
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, 2022
- 1 min
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, 2022
- 1 min
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, 2022
- 1 min
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, 2022
- 1 min
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, 2021
- 1 min
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, 2021
- 2 min
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, 2021
- 1 min
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, 2021
- 1 min
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, 2021
- 1 min
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, 2021
- 1 min
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, 2021
- 1 min
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, 2021
- 1 min
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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