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ALL ABOUT EY – MUSINGS ABOUT
ALL ABOUT EY – MUSINGS ABOUT
ALL ABOUT EY – MUSINGS ABOUT
LITERATURE, THE SHORT STORY AND
LITERATURE, THE SHORT STORY AND
LITERATURE, THE SHORT STORY AND
THE CURRENT STATE OF LITERARY
THE CURRENT STATE OF LITERARY
THE CURRENT STATE OF LITERARY
AFFAIRS
AFFAIRS
AFFAIRS

Adam

Had ’em

But according to the Guinness Book of Records, the world’s shortest
poem is a one-letter poem by Aram Saroyan comprising a four-legged
version of the letter “m”.

Experiments have always been there in literature. This story is also an
experiment, a craft which with universal language, a story which
demands the participation and intervention of the readers. The craft
challenges the categorization and fixed formation of a short story. The

story transcends beyond the boundaries of language to end up in a
universal language. Various theories has been put forward about the
origin of language. The common theories of languages include the bow-
bow theory, pooh-pooh theory, ding- dong theory, yo-he-ho theory, ta-
ta theory and la-la theory. The story “Ey” is close to the pooh- pooh
theory and la-la theory. The pooh-pooh theory put forward the idea
that speech comes from the automatic vocal responses to pain, fear,
surprise, or other emotions: a laugh, a shriek, a gasp. He also uses the
la-la theory which states that speech emerged from the sounds of
inspired playfulness, love, poetic sensibility, and song.

Moreover, examining the history of literature whether it is pre
modernistic, modernistic, post modernistic or Meta modernistic, it is
apparent that language is the casing of all literature. Pre modernism

writers resorted to direct one to one correspondence between words
and objects. But in the modernist period, writers focused on expressive
language of symbol, myth and allusion to make the literary works
imposing. In modernist literary texts, emphasis is given to both
colloquial and formal language. Writers of the modernist period who
were dissatisfied with clear resolutions and linear plots in literature
that existed prior to modernism used open and often unresolved

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