I’ll wait for you, but not till night,

Love runs deep, but you lost yourself in light.

I know your burdens pull you tight,

But break my heart, and feel no fright?

(RAAST)

دل اور دماغ کے درمیان فرق صرف ایک وجہ کا ہے

کیونکہ دل جوچاہتا ہے اس کی کوئی وجہ نہیں ہوتی

 جبکہ دماغ جو چاہتا ہےاس کی ہر بار کوئی وجہ ہوتی ہے

(راست)

The difference between the heart and the mind is simple:

The heart desires without reason,

While the mind always finds one.

Terrance Hayes was born November 18, 1971. An American writer, acclaimed for his work, he finds a new realm in matters of race, identity, and masculinity which traverse a culture with unbridled meaning. In inventively new form and language, he approaches personal and societal issues of note, and this use of the blending of the narrative with the more overarching social critique places him among modern America's voices.

Early Life and Education

Born in Columbia, South Carolina, Hayes grew up in a working-class family. His father was a military officer, and his mother was a factory worker, experiences that shaped his early understanding of resilience and community. A gifted athlete, Hayes initially pursued basketball, earning a scholarship to Coker College in Hartsville, South Carolina. He developed a great passion for the arts and for creative writing as he was there and graduated in his years at Coker with major English and minors in painting.

He continued, pursuing his educational pursuits further where he achieved an MFA in poetry from the University of Pittsburgh and the poetic voice honed further.

 Literary Career

He is the author of Terrance Hayes's first book of poetry, Muscular Music , which emerged in 1999 to claim the Kate Tufts Discovery Award. This collection vividly taps upon themes of muscularity, race, and the innumerable hooks that tie it all together regarding identity-all that is done to good humorous affect and with finely tuned lyrical sensibilities.

In 2010, Hayes made national news with Lighthead , which won the National Book Award for Poetry. Acclaimed for the innovative forms found within it, including the "golden shovel," a poetic form Hayes popularized, in a golden shovel poem the last words of each line compose a secondary poem or pay homage to another work, often weaving conversation between texts.

Themes and Style

Hayes's work is characterized by a balance between vulnerability and intellectual rigor. His poetry deals with the most pressing issues of the present, including systemic racism, police violence, and cultural history, but remains close to human, intimate experiences. He expertly shifts between personal and collective experiences with his language.

His 2018 book collection, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin , is arguably his most celebrated work to date because it is a response to the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Hayes redeems the sonnet form in the fight against racial injustice and American political crisis. For that piece, he was chosen as a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award.

Influence and Legacy

Deeply committed to the teaching of language's art as well as an advocate for poetry's cause is young poet Terrance Hayes, whose student base cuts across the top notch of some universities: University of Pittsburgh, Carnegie Mellon, and New York University. For him, students are therefore encouraged to "play" with and discover voices just like what a professor must be.

Hayes received a few awards and recognitions. These are the MacArthur Fellowship in 2014, Guggenheim Fellowship, and National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. Many of the literary journals and anthologies publish him all around the world.

Private Life

Hayes lives and writes in New York. The work is almost as much said about as the inspiration, especially when it comes to how his private life-being black, a dad, and artist-influences his poetry: real and affecting.

In closing

More than that, Terrance Hayes is just a poet who reconstitutes the possibilities of language and form. The courageous step into the realms of identity, history, and human conditions has made him one of the most influential voices in poetry nowadays. His work gives readers and writers solace and challenge in an increasingly complex world.

 اس کے لہجے میں زمانے کی خنک آ گئی تھی

اورعقلمند کو اشارے کی سمجھ آ گئی تھی

رات کی تاریکی میں سارے خط جلا دیے ورنہ

رسوائی تھی کہ دروازے تلک آ گئی تھی

(راست)

The coldness of ages had seeped in his speech,  

A subtle hint only the wise could reach.  

In the night's dark veil, the letters were flame,  

For disgrace stood knocking, whispering his name.  

(RAAST)

A visual novel is an interactive storytelling in that it has written narratives infused with visual and audio content. Hailing from Japan, the medium later trickled out to be quite a popular tool used for telling immersive stories, thereby keeping players engaged within a plot through text, choices, and dialogue. Unlike novels, it would have illustrations, animations, background music, and even voice acting for a more multimedia feel.

Key Features of Visual Novels

1. Text-Only Story

The plot is shown as on-screen text; however, it is often intermingled with character portraits and backgrounds appropriate to the context.

2. Branching Storyline

Many visual novels are accompanied by choices of players' choices that later influence changes in the story resulting in multiple endings or directions in which characters may lead to.

3. Art and Design

Visual novels are defined by their style of arts, which are mostly in anime or manga style, and the works of the characters' art along with their backgrounds.

4. Sound and Music 

Sound and music effects enhance the atmosphere and feeling to the storyline. 

Genres 

1. Romance: 

Dealing with relationships and character building.

2. Mystery/Thriller: 

Deals with playing mystery or trying to solve complex storylines.

3. Fantasy/Sci-Fi: 

This is the creation of imaginary worlds.

4. Horror: 

It is basically the creation of suspense and fear through a scaring storyline and pictures.

Some Popular Visual Novels Examples

1. Steins Gate

   Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller

Storyline: Several close friends by accident create a messaging device that sends messages back in time, and from there, strange things begin to happen.

- Significance: The elaborate time travel mechanisms coupled with deep emotions make one of the most fantastic visual novels ever.

2. Clannad

Genres: Romance, Drama

Story involves about a high school delinquent and his establishment of major bonds of connection wherein he discovers the need for a family and love.

Significance: The tale is immensely heartwarming, considering its humongous popularity and fan culture in real life have inspired an anime version of the series.

3. Doki Doki Literature Club

Genre: Psychological Horror

Plot: From a dating game, it soon becomes a subversion of audience expectation through the twisty and nauseating plot.  

Implication: Famous for novel storytelling techniques and breaking of the fourth wall. 

4. Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney  

  Genre: Mystery, Legal Drama

- Story: In this game, it works like a role of defense attorney; players have to investigate cases, cross-examine the witnesses in order to know about the truth behind every case.

This is very interactive, especially as visual novel elements meld together with mechanics.

5. Higurashi: When They Cry

Genre- Horror, Mystery

Story: The seemingly utopian village holds dark secrets, and the story gradually unwinds in the passage of time.

Significance: It is a cult classic, because of its strong story-line and eerie setting.

It refers to a gathering of literature or artistic works that are resultants of collections from many sources, but usually put in one book. A term derived from the Greek word " anthologia," or "flower-gathering" wherein the best pieces of art or literature are gathered for presentation. These are mostly thematically or generically with a purpose-mostly the kind meant to point out diversity, talent, or simply for preservation with an aim to pass on the torch to the generations.

Types of Anthologies

1. Literary Anthologies:

These are those collections of poems, short stories, or essays composed by one or several authors. These are often thematic, historical, or geographical in focus.

Example:

The Norton Anthology of English Literature: It is the gold standard collection of classic works of English literature through the centuries.

2. Music Anthologies:

These are collections of songs from an artist, genre, or period. These anthologies tend to be both retrospective and thematic.

Example:

The Beatles Anthology: Multi-volume set includes unreleased recordings, interviews, and documentary of their journey by the band.

3. Film and TV Anthologies:

An anthology is a collection or series of films or episodes, all composed of different stories, characters, or settings but can often have common themes or ideas surrounding their presentation in cinema and television.

Example:

Black Mirror: This is an example of a series of a TV series; a different theme with respect to the latest scenario or modern society and technology seen with every episode.

4. Academic and Historical Anthologies:

These are anthologies of key works or texts about academic writings, historical documents, or speeches-ways of keeping them for research and reflection purposes.

Example:

They titled the works, "The Federalist Papers: Articles in behalf of the Constitution." That book includes those essays which spoke in favor of ratification of the United States Constitution.

Purpose and Benefits of Anthologies

1. Representation of Diversity:

 these are the works assembled in the anthology written by numerous different authors giving different ways on a single theme under investigation.

2. Culture Preservation: 

They are considered to be archives of important works which should be read and then available to later generations. It is a kind of convenience on the part of readers not having to go about sourcing various works but reading all the varied pieces in one collection.

3. New Author Platform:

 Most anthologies have new writers or authors who are not very famous; it is a chance to express their work in front of the world and other major writers using the same platform.

How to create an Anthology

1. Choose Theme or Theme Nucleus:

 Decide what theme will be central to the anthology, bringing all of these together like love, adventure, social justice, etc.

2. Source Content: 

Gather works by other writers or write your own that represent your selected theme.

3. Editing of Collection:

 Organize them to make them cohesive in presentation or for the reader to consume.

4. Preface or Foreword:

 A preface or even a foreword provides a context and can guide the reader of why it is an essential collection of information.