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  2. Cloud of Poems - Wikipedia

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    The story then returns to Yiyi, Big-tooth, and Li Bai on the yacht. When they reach the South Pole, they use the Earth's gravity to go to space to see the Poetry Cloud. When the three of them see the poetry cloud, Li Bai starts to lament on how technology cannot appreciate poetry. This is after his attempt at writing a poetry recognition software.

  3. Stream of consciousness - Wikipedia

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    Another early example is the use of interior monologue by T. S. Eliot in his poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" (1915), "a dramatic monologue of an urban man, stricken with feelings of isolation and an incapability for decisive action," [29] a work probably influenced by the narrative poetry of Robert Browning, including "Soliloquy of ...

  4. Volta (literature) - Wikipedia

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    The turn in poetry has gone by many names. In "The Poem in Countermotion", the final chapter of How Does a Poem Mean?, John Ciardi speaks thus of the "fulcrum" in relation to the non-sonnet poem "O western wind" (O Western Wind/when wilt thou blow/The small rain down can rain//Christ! my love were in my arms/and I in my bed again): 'The first two lines are a cry of anguish to the western wind ...

  5. Sanskrit prosody - Wikipedia

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    Sanskrit prosody or Chandas refers to one of the six Vedangas, or limbs of Vedic studies. [1] It is the study of poetic metres and verse in Sanskrit. [1] This field of study was central to the composition of the Vedas, the scriptural canons of Hinduism; in fact, so central that some later Hindu and Buddhist texts refer to the Vedas as Chandas.

  6. Chapter (books) - Wikipedia

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    A chapter (capitula in Latin; sommaires in French) is any of the main thematic divisions within a writing of relative length, such as a book of prose, poetry, or law. A book with chapters (not to be confused with the chapter book ) may have multiple chapters that respectively comprise discrete topics or themes.

  7. Narrative poetry - Wikipedia

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    An example of this is The Ring and the Book by Robert Browning. In terms of narrative poetry, romance is a narrative poem that tells a story of chivalry. Examples include the Romance of the Rose or Tennyson's Idylls of the King. Although those examples use medieval and Arthurian materials, romances may also tell stories from classical mythology.

  8. Gita Govinda - Wikipedia

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    Each chapter is further sub-divided into one or more divisions called prabandhas, totalling twenty-four in all. The prabandhas contain couplets grouped into eights, called ashtapadis . The text also elaborates the eight moods of Heroine, the Ashta Nayika , which has been an inspiration for many compositions and choreographic works in Indian ...

  9. Chiastic structure - Wikipedia

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    The verse contains 9 sentences which exhibit chiasmus, but perhaps more interesting is that it is found in the longest chapter of the Quran, Al-Baqara, which itself contains a fractal chiastic structure in its 286 verses, i.e. where each (outer) chiasm is composed of (inner) chiastic structures reflected in some sense in the analogue outer chiasm.