Poems can often also produce a sense of timelessness or of a short period of timeabstracted from ordinary time because they are measured by meter and other sound repetitionsthat have aural effects, unfolding over a particular period of time (as long as the speaker speaks),but no meaning, and because they are short enough to be easily repeatable over and over againand even easily memorized and recited at will.

narrative and the dramatic types of text are concerned with story-telling, but they aredistinguished by the ways in which they tell their stories.

A particular mode willoften reflect certain assumptions and raise certain kinds of questions about the nature of humanbeings, about the relationships they have with one another, and about the universe they inhabit.

the basic patterns and components of many ofthe genres used by authors who write in Modern English have remained remarkably stable.

She winters, and keeps warm her note

Your eyes smile peace

Deep in the sun-searched growths the dragon-fly

And say you'd nearly brought me flowersBut something had gone wrong

But for the lovers, their armsRound the griefs of the ages,

Oh! clasp we to our hearts, for deathless dower