Assignment #2. Application of the concept of rasa to poetry outside India. 
Find two poems in English (or French, Spanish, etc.) 1. which are not too 
lengthy and 2. each of which in your view embodies a different rasa in 
fairly pure form. Copy them out. For each identify the rasa created. For 
one (and ONLY one) of the two poems analyze the techniques with which the 
poet creates the dominant mood or rasa in the poem. These techniques may 
include such things as choice of metre, vocabulary, what is mentioned and 
what is not mentioned, choice of vehicle in the poem's similes or 
metaphors, even arrangement of words on the page and choice of type fonts. 
Please be specific and concrete: 'Phrase X or choice Y contributes to the 
creation of mood Z because it expresses, suggests, alludes to, reminds the 
alert reader of W...'

Due on 22nd  of January.

Last update 20 Jan 2004.