The Effulgence Within

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Tuesday, July 13, 2021

Let us break into pieces

Did you know that whenever the heart breaks out in sheer delight, these moments I'm sure you must have experienced at times, when you are really joyful, when joy is at its pinnacle, then joy becomes unbearable. It may even, ironically, produce pain - as in Keats' Nightingale Ode - "It is not through... Sign in to see full entry.

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Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect

A friend of mine sent this which I found quite funny and wanted to share... A keen immigrant Indian Marwadi lad (when it comes to business, Marwadis are a community no less than the proverbial Jews) applied for a salesman's job at London 's premier downtown department store. In fact, it was the... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, July 8, 2021

How we invite Infernal Trinity

Satan was born in heaven. Remember, he is a fallen angel, most dynamic, resourceful and at one time the highest of all angels who nurtured the desire to be God himself instead of being God’s servant. His thought of waging a rebellion against God caused the birthing of Sin, his brain-child-daughter.... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, July 5, 2021

A Pause of Silence that Mocked his Skill

There was a Boy; ye knew him well, ye cliffs And islands of Winander! many a time, At evening, when the earliest stars began To move along the edges of the hills, Rising or setting, would he stand alone, Beneath the trees, or by the glimmering lake; And there, with fingers interwoven, both hands... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, June 26, 2021

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 surreptitious... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, June 25, 2021

The Moving Pain of the Discharged war veteran returning home

‘No living thing appeared in earth or air, And, save the flowing water’s peaceful voice, Sound there was none - but, Lo! an uncouth shape. Shown by the sudden turning of the road, So near that slipping back into the shade Of a thick hawthorn, I could mark him well Myself unseen. He was of stature... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, June 23, 2021

The Thorn that stuck in Martha Ray forever

The subject of Wordsworth’s poem “The Thorn”, which occurs in Lyrical Ballads (1800), is Martha Ray, and her misery. It marks the beginning of the Romantic Movement in English literature. The natural setting is the thorn, an old, grey, forlorn thing: only yards from it is a small pond of muddy water... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, June 22, 2021

Recalling the charming absurdities of the 18th century England

The previous discussions and commentaries impel me to write one last note on Pope's delightful poem. (Excuse me for a bit stretched write). Pope wrote The Rape of the Lock on a request from his friend John Caryll to help heal a rift between two Catholic families of prominence of the early eighteenth... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, June 19, 2021

A Realistic Portrayal of the early eighteenth century Fashionable Society

A good number of you readers have shown fascination for the stylistic livings of the late 18th and early 19th century English people. Today I take you through a journey of a century earlier, The London society, by Alexander Pope. The Rape of the Lock portrays the fashionable world of early 18th... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, June 18, 2021

The Real Life Country Gentry in late 18th and early 19th Century England

In Mansfield Park (published in three volumes in 1814) only a section of English life of Jane Austen’s times is described – the life of the country gentry of the professional middle-class. In this novel the everyday affairs of country houses are given far more space than the so-called “dramatic”... 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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