A friend of mine once said, “what good are emotions if all they do is make you weak?”
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A friend of mine once said, “what good are emotions if all they do is make you weak?”
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Read More »If literature is the peanut butter of culture, then art is the grape jelly that goes with it.
Poems aren’t easy to read, but if there’s any poetic form that grants both pleasure and closure, it’s probably the sonnet.
Two of the most commonly mixed-up words in the study of English Literature are ‘form’ and ‘structure’.
If paradox is perplexing and conceit is confusing, then allusion is probably one of the most annoying literary devices out there.
Have you ever sat in an English class or read literary criticism – and wondered how some people manage to come up with creative – at times far-fetched – interpretations of poems and novels?
Poets are a hypersensitive bunch.
Following my post on comparative devices (simile, metaphor, analogy and conceit), some readers have asked me to write a post on contrasting devices.