Great works of literature include many novels such as David Copperfield by Charles Dickens, Paradise Lost by John Milton, Hamlet by William Shakespeare, The Odyssey by Homer, Dubliners by James Joyce, The Sound And The Fury by William Faulkner, The Brother’s Karamazov by Dostoyevsky, The Divine Comedy by Alighieri, The Portrait Of A Lady by…
If you post one of your poems or a quote of yours or maybe an extract from your story on your Facebook timeline and hardly anyone notices it making you feel disappointed or discouraged, then this blog post is for you. Maybe you had sent your very dear manuscript to a publisher and it has…
The combination of solitude and virgin nature is alluring enough for a poet’s inspiration. Therefore literature lovers have often treated themselves with beautiful verses that bear such essence. Following are some of the nicest poems that have served poetic musings of wilderness and isolation. Daffodils, William Wordsworth Wordsworth’s Daffodils is an account of a…
Book readers are generally lazy people, and generally like to just curl up with a shawl in a corner of their rooms along with their favorite books. Listed below are five masterpieces from the short fiction genre, written especially for the even more lazier group of nevertheless avid book readers, with a significantly lesser attention…
Sometimes it’s a lone writer who’s been putting off a story idea for too long, and decides it’s now or never. Sometimes it’s a pair or a group determined to find out what they can achieve by sharing self-imposed deadlines and strong pots of coffee. Only crazy Homo sapiens might be able to achieve such…
Mountains are synonymous to scenic marvels of nature, a feeling of enchantment amidst adventure and a serene course of self discovery. Yes, and due to such wonderful feelings attached to mountain trips, travel enthusiasts are often attracted to mountains. If you have a penchant for reading then that would be an added advantage. Because following…
Some pens are so utterly enchanting that their charm can tempt even the coldest of cynics. The books below are out of this league. They are special in their own ways. These are the ones that slipped under the radar; the ones that keep getting left behind on the shelves. These are the books that,…
The most beautiful thing of a relationship is that you can do everything together. Even the most creepy things which you would never imagine doing in front of other people, your partner has seen it all and still chosen to stick with you, no matter what. To a book lover or even casual readers, the…
Poets offer a glimpse of their musings through their poetry, and often we find that they do a very good job in casting word imageries. There are numerous poems with beautiful imageries and we have plenty of such poets who deserve to be credited for their works. Among the whole lot of poets, the generation…
Literally, ‘meta-‘ means ‘after’. So decoding ‘metaphysical’ gives us ‘after the physical’. These group of poets all used extremely complicated and eye-brow raising imagery, frequent paradox and intellectualized plots. Most importantly, their flair of huge doses of wit and an elaborate style stood them apart. They picked on philosophical matters concerning everyday life but gave…
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