NaPoWriMo Day 15: The Era of Paperback Books

Following the prompt of a platform called ArtoonsInn to write a poem based on the given picture. Poem Title:The Era of Paperback Books There was once an era, When there was a queue in my bookstore, When the names of authors and titles, Could be heard from ashore, – When the smell of fresh pages … Read more

A Book Is A Child

This poem is based on a prompt that requires “conceit”  to be used as a poetic tool. A poetic conceit is often an unconventional, logically complex, or surprising metaphor whose delights are more intellectual than sensual. In metaphor, we try to bring out similarity between two very different things. A conceit is like an extended metaphor where the two objects are absolutely and completely different. 

I have tried to bring this out in this poem by using ‘a book’ and ‘an orphan child’ as two objects of comparison.

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