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INSPIRATIVE QUATATIONS

Aaron Copland - We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action. Frank Tibolt - You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club. Jack London - Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time... The wait is simply too long. Leonard Bernstein - I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled [poets] to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean. Socrates .- Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration. Try not to become a man of success but a man of value.                             ...

LITERARY TERMS/CONCEPTS

Rhyme Royle:                     It is a stanza form of seven-lines in iambic pentametre and rhyming ab.ab,bc,c.This was used for the first time by Chaucer in "Troilus and Criseyde" and later by James I of Scotland about 1424 in his poem 'The King's Quair' due to which the word 'royal' appears. It is suited for narrative. Soliloquy :                    Soliloquy is a stage device like aside, it is in a form of a speech delivered by a character in a play when alone, believing that there are no hearers. It helps in describing character truthfully. The soliloquies of Hamlet and Claudius in "Hamlet" are excellant examples.

#NOBLE PRIZE WINNERS IN LITERATURE

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                                                              ( TAKEN FROM WIKIPEDIA ) Year Laureate Country [A] Language Rationale 1901 Sully Prudhomme     France French "in special recognition of his poetic composition, which gives evidence of lofty idealism, artistic perfection and a rare combination of the qualities of both heart and intellect" [9] 1902 Theodor Mommsen Germany German "the greatest living master of the art of historical writing, with special reference to his monumental work, A History of Rome " [10] 1903 Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson Norway Norwegian "as a tribute to his noble, magnificent and versatile poetry, which has always ...