EXAMPLES OF IMAGINATIVE WRITING.

 SHORT STORY
 POETRY
 SPEECH
 NOVELA
 MEMOIR

EXAMPLE OF SHORT STORY

The Arrogant Swans

This Short Story The Arrogant Swans is quite interesting to all the people. Enjoy reading this
story.

In a far away kingdom, there was a river. This river was home to many golden swans. The swans
spent most of their time on the banks of the river. Every six months, the swans would leave a
golden feather as a fee for using the lake. The soldiers of the kingdom would collect the feathers
and deposit them in the royal treasury. One day, a homeless bird saw the river. “The water in
this river seems so cool and soothing. I will make my home here," thought the bird. As soon as
the bird settled down near the river, the golden swans noticed her. They came shouting. “This
river belongs to us. We pay a golden feather to the King to use this river. You can not live here."
“I am homeless, brothers. I too will pay the rent. Please give me shelter," the bird pleaded.
“How will you pay the rent? You do not have golden feathers," said the swans laughing. They
further added, “Stop dreaming and leave once." The humble bird pleaded many times. But the
arrogant swans drove the bird away. “I will teach them a lesson!" decided the humiliated bird.
She went to the King and said, “O King! The swans in your river are impolite and unkind. I
begged for shelter but they said that they had purchased the river with golden feathers." The
King was angry with the arrogant swans fo putr having insulted the homeless bird. He ordered
his soldiers to bring the arrogant swans to his court. In no time, all the golden swans were
brought to the King’s court. “Do you think the royal treasury depends upon your golden
feathers? You can not decide who lives by the river. Leave the river at once or you all will be
beheaded!" shouted the King. The swans shivered with fear on hearing the King. They flew
away never to return. The bird built her home near the river and lived there happily forever. The
bird gave shelter to all other birds in the river.

EXAMPLE OF POETRY

Example 1

I think that I shall never see

a poem lovely as a tree…

poems are made by fools like me,

but only God can make a tree.

(Joyce Kilmer, Trees)

Example 2

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness,

starving hysterical naked,

dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking

for an angry fix,

angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly

connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night,

who poverty and tatters and hollow-eyed and high sat up smoking…

(Alan Ginsberg, Howl)

EXAMPLE OF SPEECH
I have a dream that one day down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips
dripping with the words of interposition and nullification – one day right there in Alabama little black
boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and
brothers.I have a dream today. I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted and every hill
and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be
made straight, and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together.

EXAMPLE OF NOVELLA

Example # 1

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad Heart of Darkness is a strictly controlled novella, with a
classic status, describing a story of late nineteenth century about imperialistic and colonialist
process. This novella focuses on the search of the central character, Kurtz, who goes too far for
exploitation of the natives for the sake of an ivory trade. Conrad’s readers plunge deeper into
the horror of darkness to see what happened after the invasion of the Europeans.

Example # 2

Turn of the Screw is a good example of a classic novella. It is, in fact, a ghost story that
challenges an easy interpretation. The story is about a governess living in a remote house,
taking care of two kids, who are horrified by former dead employees. However, no one knows
the truth. The story is filled with complexities such as its central issue is the reliability of the
narrator, who tells this story. This story can be said a self-conscious and subtle exploration of a
traditional horrible domestic theme about Victorian culture, drenched in social and sexual
unease.

EXAMPLES OF MEMOIR

Example #1

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life,
and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had
not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practice
resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of
life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath
and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms.

Example #2

As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold
white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as I drank
their cold liquid from each shell and washed it down with the crisp taste of the wine, I lost the
empty feeling and began to be happy and to make plans.

(A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway)