Genres have a history and impose a historical character upon the writer. What is interesting in the poem … - Vijay Seshadri

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Now at my age I understand how sad it must have been for some directors or actors at the time the talkies began. Because, really, a whole continent disappeared.

Vijay Seshadri

Genres have a history and impose a historical character upon the writer. What is interesting in the poem involves a certain kind of dramatization of the self that you don't have to engage in in the essay. In fact, the essay is a more social medium than the poem.

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Orwell says somewhere that no one ever writes the real story of their life. The real story of a life is the story of its humiliations.

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The sun does what it does because the earth tilts.

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I was always a reader. In the fifth grade, I got some sort of prize for having read hundreds of books from the library.

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I would say that when I write prose I'm a more socially responsible person. I'm much more a citizen of the world. But the instability of the poetry, the emotional jaggedness, is also me.

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It's important for all writers to try to figure out what they're doing.

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