Wednesday, October 5, 2022

Diamante Poem

Diamante Poetry

A diamante poem is a poem made of seven lines of words that are arranged in a special diamond-like form.
  1. Diamante poem is seven lines long.
  2. The first and last poetic lines have one word. The second and sixth poetic lines have two words. The third and fifth poetic lines have three words. ...
  3. Poetic Lines 1, 4, and 7 have nouns. 
  4. Poetic Lines 2 and 6 have adjectives. 
  5. Poetic Lines 3 and 5 have verbs.
  6. Look at the following example - A Diamante Poetry on Teacher and Learner
A diamante poem can be used in two ways, either comparing and contrasting two different subjects, or naming synonyms at the beginning of the poem and then antonyms for the second half for a subject.

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Sources - definition and explanation from Wikipedia.

Tuesday, August 23, 2022

A Fortnight Journey under the Rising Sun (RC in English Memoir Poetry)

A Fortnight Journey under the Rising Sun

Had a fortnight Literary Journey from
Literary complications to resolving research work
Resource persons from Kanyakumari to Himachal Pradesh (Dr.John Sekhar to Dr. Kaviarasu)
Touched the Zenith! 

From Reading Poetics to Olkopoetics
From Morphology in ELT to Ecology in criticism
From Myth to Digital literary theories
From Border studies to Blue studies

Enthusiastic listeners and professors  Angelina, Sathya, Kalaivani, Lingeswari, Anit, Abilasha, Akilesh, Manas, Jemi, Lakshmipriya, Shihab, Vanathi, Mani, Subha, Sudha,Priya, Preetha,Padma, Remya, etc with comments peppered and sweetened and
Salted with Jockim and Rajesh

In the vast literary sky under this rising Sun, Prof. Udhayakumar
With a few drizzlings of Thirukkural in Tamil and English Translations
We raised, rouse and reached the pinnacle...

V.P.Rathi

(In memory of Refresher Course in English at MKU, Madurai)

Indian Writing in Translation - Essays

Literary Excellence of the Thirukkural   Brevity, Imagery, Metaphor, and Moral Instruction Introduction Tirukkural, composed by Thiruvalluva...