The Effulgence Within

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Thursday, May 25, 2023

Suicidal Romance or Romantic Suicide

A while back, I finished reading Gustave Flaubert’s famous controversial novel, Madame Bovary. It struck me as an ingenuous work of art with a seminal depiction of the reality of the mid-nineteenth century French cultural mores and ethics. Published in 1857, after the novel was acquitted by the... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, April 2, 2023

Dryden, the Satirist par-excellence

Dryden's Mac Flecknoe was written in 1678 and published in 1682. The title of the poem was the result of a literary and personal quarrel between Dryden and Thomas Shadwell, a minor playwright. The play is full of allusions to literary figures, plays, poems and publishers. Mac Flecknoe is a... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, March 26, 2023

Coleridge’s Frost at Midnight

Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Frost at Midnight (1798) opens with an atmosphere outside of Coleridge’s home with the frost performing its ministry, making everything so desolate and bitterly cold that the owlets cry out loud; the eerie surrounding is otherwise ‘too calm’ as to vex the concealed musings... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, March 7, 2023

How to make our latent potential patent

The inherent resident quarter of all beings is universal: a body is otherwise a corpse without the spirit as its body-current or the life-giving force. At the outside, the body is one extremity; in between are progresssively, the layers of our diffentiated existence -- the mind (emotions, feelings),... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, March 4, 2023

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.

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Wednesday, February 15, 2023

Tracing the historical development of Poetry

“A WAKE, Æolian lyre, awake, And give to rapture all thy trembling strings, From Helicon's harmonious springs... “ This is the poet Thomas Gray’s (1716 – 1771) Invocation to the Æolian lyre, that is, the lyre of the ancient Greek poet Pindar who lived between the 6 th and 5 th century B.C. Gray here... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, February 6, 2023

Shakespeare’s sparkling genius in Much Ado about Nothing

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.

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Wednesday, January 4, 2023

CELEBRATION by Wislawa Szymborska … a repeat

Birthday, by Wislawa Szymborska - if one were to describe it in one word, it is simply a most exquisite poem, so full of exuberance, so full of the gifts of God's bounty, so full of happy gaiety, so full of marvel, that it is natural for the poem to be a hearty outburst in its lyrical note and the... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, December 7, 2022

A BRONZE HEAD

W.B.Yeats’ poem A Bronze Head is addressed to a bronze-painted plaster cast bust of Maude Gonne in the Dublin Municpal Gallery. In her earlier years she was an intense passionate nationalist; eloquent and domineering, a beautiful-looking English-born Irish revolutionary, suffragette and actress.... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, November 27, 2022

The Changing, yet Changeless; illusion of Eternity

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/podcasts/76364/the-wild-swans-at-coole The setting of William Butler Yeats’ poem The Wild Swans at Coole (composed in 1916) is Coole Park, Lady Gregory’s estate in Galway, a county in thel West of the Republic of Ireland. The poem deals with the problem of ageing,... Sign in to see full entry.

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Embarking on a journey in spiritual quest is fraught with the dangers of doubt, tension and anxiety, disbeliefs, misgivings, and a whole lot of uncertainties. Still, it is that one most integral aspect of life that humankind can rarely ignore or do without. Scientific minds are at loggerheads with what constitute religious truths; likewise, there are close-minded believers that give no credence to scientific facts. What I intend and invite you to discuss here is an intelligent amalgamation of the two seemingly diabolically opposite understandings: whether there exists an interrelationship that can help man to evolve and bloom like the perennial lily?

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