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you feel Research Paper on Pictorial Poetry

Rohini Behera
depressed;
depressed;
In Africa the earliest poetry is found in Pyramid Texts which date back to 21 st century BC. The Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor (2500 BC); The Epic of Gilgamesh (2000
BC), like Vedas (1700 - 1200 BC). The longest epic poems were Mahabharata and The Tibetan Epic of King Gesar. One must not forget Enheduanna (2285-2250 BC),
Akkadian/Sumerian Poet, the world's first poet /author by name was daughter of Sargon of Akkad (Sargon the Great, 2334-2279 BC) though she was not known if she was
the blood relationship of Sargon.
your words
your words Between 1200 BC-AD 455, Homer's epic poetry 'Iliad' and 'Odyssey' and Hesiod's ' Works and Days'. Ancient Greek used poetry in music, theatre, God and heroic deeds
of great people.

Between AD 455-1485 (Medieval Times) the great poet like Geoffrey Chaucer written in the easy language called vernacular that common people could understand.
make you
make you Between AD 1485-1660 (Renaissance Period) playwrights like William Shakespeare and Thomas Marlowe included poetry in their play. Structures, meter, new styles
added into the poem and poets seemed very creative in this age.
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cheerful Between AD 1660-1790 (Enlightenment Period) Classical Greek style returned and was accepted.
Between AD 1790-1830 (Romantic Period), it was seen big departure is seen from the Enlighten period. Poets like Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift incorporated new
styles, themes, valued creativity, focused on nature, individuality. While in the United States new Transcendentist Movement started which followed a new style like
Romantic era poets. They focused on creativity, nature, and individuality.

Between AD 1832-1901 (Victorian Period) poets came out from established forms, structures for instance Walt Whitman who started writing in free verse without use of
meter.
Early 20th century is the witness of many changes in poetry let it be in style, structure, size; poems became concise, simple, less application of ornamental. The poets like
W. H. Auden, W. B. Yeats, and Robert Frost etc.
After 1945, called Post Modern Movement, poets like Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac, who are considered as beat poets. They have different in theme and style
contrary to mainstream society. From beat movement has come new style 'spoken word', a kind of poetry in which both performed and some type of statement (like
political).
Now a new concept of poetry has started where experienced and novice goes, attend and recite their poetry. There are competitions conducted by many groups, literary
clubs once in a year or in particular occasion, where elimination system is there, or the marking of reviews, decide the fate of the poet of the competition, as a result, it is
found many good poets are making in progress. They are no less than great poets of centuries before. Today social media plays an important role, even this paper is the

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