We are approaching the centennial of the publication of T.S. Eliot’s opus The Waste Land .   Written in the wake of World War I, Eliot captured the spiritual malaise, the economic upheaval, and the unprecedented destruction that pervaded postwar Europe and beyond.   Nineteen twenty-two was the year that changed litera…

The Art of Composing Poetry To be poetic is something very simple but to be a poet is something not so easy. We all think, we dream, we vision, and we have a brain full of lovely ideas about nature or may be our dream girl we aspire to have. But there are hardly a few who can transmute their feelings into a good p…

Introduction : Haiku as worldwide verse – the very idea appears to be undeniable.  After all, what began half a millennium ago as a Japanese poetic form now earns worldwide appeal and acclaim. For countless schoolchildren around the planet, from Aberdeen to Zhaoqing, haiku represents their first exploratory flight int…