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Poetry- Appreciation, Deviant language of Poetry

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                      Poetry is a type of literature, or artistic writing, that attempts to stir a reader's imagination or emotions. The poet does this by carefully choosing and arranging language for its meaning, sound, and rhythm.                       Poetry Appreciation is the process of evaluating, comprehending, and interpreting a literary work from a discerning perspective. Appreciation means to recognize or enjoy the good qualities of someone or something  Poetry Appreciation is that attitude about poetry. To develop appreciation skills, one can paraphrase the poems, rhythmically recitate poems, identifying emotional tone of the poem, understand background of poem, identifying stylistic devices of the poem- figures of speech, identify rhyme scheme.                   Critical reading or appreciation include...

William Shakespeare

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  William Shakespeare was born on April 23, 1564, in Stratford-upon-Avon. The son of John Shakespeare and Mary Arden, he was probably educated at the King Edward VI Grammar School in Stratford, where he learned Latin and a little Greek and read the Roman dramatists. At eighteen, he married Anne Hathaway, a woman seven or eight years his senior. Together, they raised two daughters: Susanna, who was born in 1583, and Judith (whose twin brother died in boyhood), born in 1585. Little is known about Shakespeare’s activities between 1585 and 1592. Robert Greene’s A Groatsworth of Wit alludes to him as an actor and playwright. Shakespeare may have taught at school during this period, but it seems more probable that shortly after 1585 he went to London to begin his apprenticeship as an actor. Due to the plague, the London theaters were often closed between June 1592 and April 1594. During that period, Shakespeare probably had some income from his patron, Henry Wriothesley, earl...

Blog

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              A blog is an online journal or information website run by an individual, group or corporation that offers regularly updated content about a topic. It presents information in a reverse chronological order. A blog is written in an informal or conversational style. The word Blog is a combination of the words ‘web’ and ‘log’. Blogs were originally called weblogs.                Blogging refers to the process of regularly updating,maintaining and managing a blog, from idea generation to publishing process. It is the process of creating articles, photos, and other forms of content and publishing on a blog. Blogger is someone who writes regularly for a blog. A blog generally comprises a number of different elements. In the main block, Posts are displayed. Each post includes a title, date, the author’s name or nickname, a permalink(URL). Examples of blogs: Mashable, The Innovate Educator,...