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.
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