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INTERVIEW: iwordbooks

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Tell us a little about yourself and your background. I have a top-level corporate management background, but I had a flair for writing from my school days. This crystallized about a decade back and resulted in the release of my historical romance novel, “Wings of Freedom”, followed by another romance novel “The Full Circle”. Lately, I have turned to writing poetry also and the result is “The Morning Glory”, a compilation of poems touching various shades of life. I love writing fiction and poetry to bring to life the stories and poems that emanate in my mind from the day-to-day incidents in life. New thoughts and ideas provide a challenge and excitement in my life that then permeate my books to entertain and promote a social message to my readers. Tell us about your current release, “The Morning Glory--A Book of Poetry”. The book comprises a collection of poems, like a multi-hued garland interlaced with the diverse thoughts and experiences nurtured in my life. The poems en...
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THE EMOTIONAL POWER OF POETRY

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**Ratan Kaul “Poetry is when an emotion has found its thoughts and thought has found words,” that is what Robert Frost wrote about poetry. Prose, poetry and drama, the three main genres of literature have through their creative expressions enthralled the readers since ages. Each has its creative value in entertaining, inspiring, carrying social messages and storytelling in general. However, poetry has unique attributes. While prose includes novels, short stories or non-fiction that’s written in the day-to-day language used or heard by us and has a paragraphic structure, the distinct constituents of poetry are its lyricism with poetic imagery. As for theatrical dialogues in dramas, these need to be supplemented by physical elements like stages and props for conveying stories impactfully to the audience, though there is some poetic flavour. Also, the great differentiator for poems is that they depict diverse kinds of emotions like hope, joy, grief, anguish, romance and compassi...
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