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Friday, March 15, 2024

Ozymandias — The Short-lived Nature of Absolute Power

Shelly’s Ozymandias (1817), is a commentary in sonnet, on the eventual short-lived nature of absolute power. Shelley, the Utopian, believed that tyrants, monarchs, dictators, no matter how powerful, do come to meet their nemesis on the day of their reckoning, and the language runs perfectly in... Sign in to see full entry.

Friday, March 8, 2024

A Delightful Literary Quarrel full of Satire par-excellence

Dryden's Mac Flecknoe (written 1678, published 1682) was the result of a literary and personal quarrel between Dryden and Thomas Shadwell, a minor playwright. The poem is full of allusions to literary figures, plays, poems and publishers. Mac Flecknoeis a mock-heroic satire. This is literary a mode... Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, March 6, 2024

Tranquil is the Music of Language

"The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more." ( The Solitary Reaper ) In the course of one of his walking tours, Wordsworth once saw a Scottish Highland girl reaping and singing all alone in a field. Her song, which had a melancholy ring, filled the entire valley, and the poet was... Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, February 29, 2024

Comedy lies in the artifice of Wit-Combat

Much Ado About Nothing is the nearest approach to the Comedy of Errors as practised by William Congreve, where sentiment or passion is conveyed either by indifference or downright contradiction. The hero and the heroine of Much Ado, Benedick and Beatrice, by their very bickerings, assume a social... Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, January 10, 2024

Love Lives In Many Forms

In As You Like It, love lives in many forms – in Orlando and Rosalind, Celia and Oliver, Silvius and Phoebe, Touchstone and Audrey. In the play, the lovers love one another at first sight. Dead shepherd, now I find thy saw of might Who ever lov’d that lov’d not at first sight It is the cry of Phoebe... Sign in to see full entry.

Sunday, December 24, 2023

The Birth of a New Religion - Christianity (A repeat on Christmas Day)

Christmas theme is the subject matter of T.S. Eliot's allegorical poem “The Journey of the Magi”. It starts with one of the three Magus' narrating to us the story long after the event has happened; the Magi symbolizing the three wise men of the east who come to Bethlehem to witness the birth of... Sign in to see full entry.

Sunday, December 17, 2023

Imbibe Yoga for Exercise and Mental Peace

Just as medicines are necessary to repair bodily ailments, so is 'meditation' medicinal for the mind to keep it perfectly healthy, peaceful and in a state of equanimous tranquil. The mind must be emptied of all toxins. Unlike the western concept that 'an empty mind is a devil's workshop', the... Sign in to see full entry.

Tuesday, December 12, 2023

The World of Silence is always Alive

In this short poem I like For You To Be Stil l, Pablo Neruda addresses his beloved who is now gone very far, not physically near, yet very dear and unforgettable in his feelings and in memory. He yearns that he be able somehow to establish some communication with her, but that he is unable to, as... Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, December 6, 2023

Pablo Neruda’s Conveyance of the Mystical through Ah Vastness of the Pines

The true poetic genius of Pablo Neruda found expression in the conveyance of the mystical through his use of bold metaphors. In “ Ah Vastness of Pines ”, approaching a pine grove, the fading light of the evening sun along with the distant sounding of the Church bells and a babbling brook nearby,... Sign in to see full entry.

Monday, December 4, 2023

Do We Live in the Real or the Quasi-real

(This part is in continuation of the first part) Next to clouds even a stone seems like a brother, someone you can trust, while they are just distant, flighty cousins. Let people exist if they want, and then die, one after another: clouds simply don’t care what they’re up to down there. And so their... Sign in to see full entry.

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