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  Picaresque refers to fiction that follows the adventures of a rogue character, a picaro who rambles along, relating the shady details of his everyday experiences in autobiographical form. The picaro's tales often come across with humour, although tragedy of circumstances usually travels with the storytelling. Although he's a rascal, the picaresque hero can be quite likable in the realism he portrays. You can find picaresque prose among many authors, including Henry Fielding (Joseph Andrews), Francois Voltaire (Candide), Lord Byron (Don Juan), and J.D. Salinger (Catcher in the Rye). Thomas Nash is credited with writing the first picaresque novel in English (1594):  The Unfortunate Traveller, or the Life of Jack Wilton. The picaresque novel (Spanish: "picaresca," from "pícaro," for "rogue"or "rascal") is a popular genre of novel, usually a first –person narrative thatdepicts the adventures of a roguish hero of low social class who drift...

Celt is a member of a group of peoples inhabiting much of Europe and Asia Minor in pre-Roman times. Their culture developed in the late Bronze Age around the upper Danube, and reached its height in the La Tène culture (5th to 1st centuries BC) before being overrun by the Romans and various Germanic peoples. Celt is a native of any of the modern nations or regions in which Celtic languages are (or were until recently) spoken; a person of Irish, Highland Scottish, Manx, Welsh, or Cornish descent.   It's believed that the Celtic culture started to evolve as early as 1200 B.C. The Celts spread throughout western  Europe —including  Britain ,  Ireland ,  France  and  Spain —via migration. Their legacy remains most prominent in  Ireland  and  Great Britain , where traces of their language and culture are still prominent today.   Celtic word relates to the Celts or their languages, which constitute a branch of the Indo-European fam...

 Let me share some words about poetry. Realization is the access point to poetry for a lot of people, including me: that is when they open their ears, hearts and minds. Poetry can last a lifetime when the poet is there with the right words for the person in the moment when something has happened and when they are in need. It conveys a great solace and reassurance. At time, people share their anxiety of not being able to read a poem facing an unknown fear.  I think poetry cannot be read like a newspaper or a novel. It is read like a chanting; a prayer. We chant aloud in our heads like we are talking to someone else, the one who is interested and receptive.  The true performance of recitation makes us conscious of rhythms, cadences, and musicality of the words and phrases. Hence, the pleasure of a keen, short and insightful poem is that we get more out of it every time. These poems address all the readers who enjoy the play of words against the social, personal and spiritua...