Category: Literature and Music
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THE HUMAN PARADOX
This poem reflects on the profound beauty and intricate complexity of human existence, likening individuals to planets. Despite their potential for harmony and divinity, humanity often spirals into chaos and self-destruction, as wars and oppression overshadow the inherent value of life. The piece critiques societal ignorance about human worth and interconnectedness.
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Composing My First Musical Opus – “Whispers of the Orient: Twelve Pieces for Piano”
By Isaac Tang ‘Whispers of the Orient’ is a collection of twelve miniature piano pieces that fuse both Western and Eastern influences. Like ukiyo-e prints or short lyrical poems, each piece aims to provide a short but emotionally intense snapshot of different moments in time, whether it be sunrise or sunset, spring or winter. There…
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‘Scorn Not the Sonnet’: The Versatility of this Beloved Poetic Form
By Isaac Tang As you read the different poets, one poetic form appears again and again. Superficially, the form looks to be the same. The form is also short – fourteen lines to be exact – and therefore fits neatly into half, or even a third of the page. It is unassuming and appears to…
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Why Poetry is Better Than Prose
By Isaac Tang Even before I published my first volume of poetry Glimpse of the Divine, I wondered whether I would reach a substantial audience. For poetry, on a whole, appears to be declining as a literary form in the modern world. I believe that most people underappreciate it and find it fit for little…
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My Favourite Christian Poets
By: Isaac Tang There was a time when I was thirteen or fourteen when I thought I had lost interest in reading. The typical books teenagers were supposed to like were either dystopian science fiction or romances, neither of which were to my taste. Thankfully, the end of this drought came with the discovery of…
Isaac Tang - Poet, Author, Composer 