hendiadys is often characterized by its elevation above the ordinary tone of conventional English and by a kind of syntactical complexity that seems fathomable only by an intuitional understanding of the way the words interweave their meanings, rather than by painstaking lexical analysis.
The oldest documented use of poetry discovered so far is a large body of texts called Vedas, which originate from Ancient India around 1700BC.
For modern literature, see History of modern literature. Literary modernism, or modernist literature, has its origins in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, mainly in Europe and North America.he poets of the Imagist movement, founded by Ezra Pound in 1912 as a new poetic style, gave Modernism its early start in the 20th century, and were characterized by a poetry that favoured a precision of imagery, brevity and Free verse.