The Effulgence Within

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Sunday, May 3, 2020

An Ode to the Suffering Human Soul

Shakespeare’s King Lear is founded on a childish incident where an old King decides to give away his kingdom to the child who professes to love him most, and his abdication results in his madness and all the sufferings it entails. A man of imperious nature, he reacts with violent wrath to the... Sign in to see full entry.

Monday, April 27, 2020

A Tribute to an Unmatched Master ... (A Repeat)

With three powers are invested we all – Wit, Subtlety and Profundity To which we conform is for us to bare, isolate and hone; ’tis our duty A most sincere journey in discovery, says the great master Shakespeare All the rest that we are not, whatever else we are, for that we are not here The process... Sign in to see full entry.

Friday, April 24, 2020

Recognize in Nature the Language of the Moral Sense

No poet has succeeded in writing finer poetry on moral issues than Wordsworth. He was preoccupied with the moral effect of Nature. He was “well pleased to recognize in Nature the language of the sense”- The anchor of my purest thoughts, the nurse, The guide, the guardian of my heart, and soul Of all... Sign in to see full entry.

Monday, April 20, 2020

The Realism of Absurdity or Vice Versa

The Theatre of the Absurd gained much popularity as a medium of dramatic expression, although indistinct in its conveyance but one of relief all right, of the inner conflicts of Man to which he found no answers, especially when the world was passing through a phase of transition – uprisings against... Sign in to see full entry.

Cheer up from the gathering darkness of old age

“Be with me, Beauty, for the fire is dying; My dog and I are old, too old for roving. Man, whose young passion sets the spindrift flying, Is soon too lame to march, too cold for loving.” The British Poet Laureate from 1930 to 1967, John Masefield wrote this poem “On Growing Old”, in 1919 when he was... Sign in to see full entry.

Saturday, April 18, 2020

The Guest, but Who?

Poem Rain came in torrents with a pall of dark descending My day’s work done and the last guest gone, I locked the door of my tavern. Knock, knock! Who can be there? Weary and trodden, I ignored peeping through the door None can at this ungodly hour be my guest “Come”, said I, “lay to your rest”.... Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, April 15, 2020

The Attraction of Tragedy

“Among the constituent parts of Tragedy, the prime importance is of the Plot” says Aristotle in his Poetics, adding that the “most powerful elements of attraction in Tragedy, the Peripeteia and Discovery, are parts of the Plot”. He defines Peripeteia as: “the change from one state of things within... Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, April 9, 2020

That Night Windless

Tonight’s the darkest of windless nights Up there, in boundless heights Sat twinkling stars burning bright Utter silence! Yet they seemred To converse in hushed whisper Rapt in attention saw them flicker listened intently what they beamed The void separating each zillions of miles, Converged; a... Sign in to see full entry.

Saturday, April 4, 2020

Pope’s use of the Supernatural Machinery in The Rape of the Lock

Dr. Samuel Johnson remarked about Alexander Pope that “If Pope be not a poet, where is poetry to be found?” Pope’s The Rape is a social satire as well as a mock-heroic epic. Here, he mocks at the “little unguarded follies” of the fair sex, and at the artificial social life of 18th Century London as... Sign in to see full entry.

Monday, March 30, 2020

The Fashionable World of the early 18th Century London

The ‘Rape of the Lock‘ portrays the fashionable world of early 18th century London. Pope’s world gains reality partly from the lavish detail in which he invests the customs, favourite meeting-places, manners and interest of the fashionable society of the age. His readers would know at once that the... 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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