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Sunday, March 29, 2020

The enduring nature of Mutablity

Shelley’s ‘Mutability’, unlike his other poems, is somber and romantically philosophical, with clear and vivid imaginative details drawing a parallel of human experiences to that of Nature’s. This poem was first published in 1816 in the collection, Alastor, or The Spirit of Solitude: And Other... Sign in to see full entry.

Friday, March 20, 2020

Poetry and its Language

Wordsworth wrote the famous “Preface” to Lyrical Ballads in which he developed his view of the nature of poetic process, the origin and purpose of poetry, and the language most suitable for it. The “ Preface ” is at once a recoil against the stilted and imitative poetry of the eighteenth century and... Sign in to see full entry.

Monday, March 9, 2020

The Essential Being of Man is Never Tarnished

Here is an account and a glorious illustration of how even the most sinful man can become righteous, and attain the highest illumination and peace though the grace of the Supreme Spirit is seen in the life of Girish Chandra Ghosh, the famous nineteenth century Bengali musician, playwright, writer,... Sign in to see full entry.

Friday, March 6, 2020

Give yourself to breaking into pieces

Whenever the heart breaks out in sheer delight, those moments you must have experienced at times, are the moments you are really joyful, when joy is at its pinnacle, then joy becomes unbearable. Ironically, it produces pain. The extremes of any feeling, be it of the negative or the positive kind -... Sign in to see full entry.

Saturday, February 29, 2020

Understanding Violence

Being healthy is natural. So is being non-violent intrinsic to man. Sounds odd, doesn’t it? Have you ever wondered sickness is a visitor that comes and goes, but is not within us. It comes from outside. Similarly, all violence is acquired from outside. Therefore, our striving to be non-violent too,... Sign in to see full entry.

Sunday, February 23, 2020

Repair in a moving cry of despair?

Many of the English hymnodist William Cowper’s poems are a mental record of his mood swings of severe depression. He yearned that his torrid love affair with his first cousin Theodora be culminated in marriage. It could not, because of his father’s strong opposition to an unsociable alliance. This... Sign in to see full entry.

Monday, February 10, 2020

Hell is to be Separated from God

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, daughter of his brain. So... Sign in to see full entry.

Friday, February 7, 2020

The Blessed Power that frames the Human Soul to Love

Leave your books behind and come forth outdoors into the world of Nature, so urges Wordsworth to his sister Dorothy on the first mild day of March. With the onset of Spring there is a joy pervading all Nature, throbbing with new life after the bleak bareness of winter. The harbinger of Sprng is the... Sign in to see full entry.

Friday, January 31, 2020

West Wind: The Incantatory Music of Shelley’s Language

Shelley‘s "Ode to the West Wind" first appeared in the Prometheus Unbound volume in 1820, signifying man’s acquittal from thraldom: the wind, building up into a tempest, is another freedom for Nature. The wind’s temperature which was initially mild and animating, went collecting the vapors as to... Sign in to see full entry.

Monday, January 27, 2020

Olympian heirarchy’s loveliest maiden

In the days of the old, it so happened that men on earth started paying homage less and less to the temple of Aphrodite; it went increasingly unprayed and its altar uncleaned from neglect. Many a times not even the incense sticks were burned. Venus, the goddess of beauty to the Greeks, as Aphrodite,... 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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