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Tuesday, January 8, 2013

Behind the World of Echoes (a repost)

In There Was a Boy, Wordsworth addresses not the boy who is now dead but the cliffs and islands of Lake Windermere that had outlasted him. The scene is widened to take the stars rising in the east and setting. It is in this context of the vast spaces of the universe and the inexorable movement of... Sign in to see full entry.

Sunday, November 25, 2012

The Plague - A Monolithic Symbol of Pessimistic Humanism

Albert Camus’ novel is the story of an epidemic of plague that struck Oran, a city of Algeria on the Mediterranean coast. The citizens lived their monotonous mundane lives. When the death-rate rises the city is sealed off to check the contagion. Within the closed city, the pestilence takes a heavy... Sign in to see full entry.

Saturday, November 24, 2012

When Fact and Fiction Overlap and Coalesce

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.

Saturday, November 17, 2012

Gatsby as the Hero of Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby

Gatsby's 'greatness' refers to that heroic quality about him that lifts him above the level of ordinary men. It is not just his material success, his capacity to live up to his desire for auccess, that distinguishes him. It is true that he has come a long way, materially speaking, from the shores of... Sign in to see full entry.

Sunday, November 11, 2012

A novel analyzing why Idealism and Dreams fail in Reality

Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby (1925),today reagared as a "Great Amarican Novel" and a literary classic, may be viewed as a piece of social satire. On one level it comments on the ceaseless gaiety and moral decadence of the period. The wild extravagance of Gatsby’s parties, the shallowness and... Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, November 8, 2012

Dances for thee, Death, feastings for thee!

“ When lilacs last in the Dooryard Bloom’d”, a magnificent elegy, expresses the deep sense of loss that Walt Whitman felt after the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln on 15 th April 1865. When Whitman first heard of the assassination, it was the spring of the year and the lilacs were in... Sign in to see full entry.

Monday, November 5, 2012

O grave, keep shut lest I be shamed ...

The Poet Laureate from Herefordshire County in western England, John Masefield lost his mother at six years of age who died while giving birth to his sister. This heartrending experience at an impressionable age left an indelible mark of sorrow on his soul which he found almost impossible to... Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, November 1, 2012

Abridged Happiness and Extended Suffering

It is the austere language of a diffident man, Hardy, marked with stoical fortitude, patient and uncomplaining, that his poem, “I Look into My Glass”, has an indelibly immediate appeal on the readers’ mind, in his teaching man to face up to Time unflinchingly. Time, with its power, brings... Sign in to see full entry.

Tuesday, October 30, 2012

I taste a liquor never brewed

Emily Dickinson’s “I taste a liquor never brewed” is a symbolic statement on the source of poetic inspiration and the nature of poetic feeling and thought. The poet begins by saying that she tastes a liquor and is becoming intoxicated. The liquor is not any particular kind of brew, as is the product... Sign in to see full entry.

Saturday, October 27, 2012

The Question Mark left behind Life, Death and Immortality

Emily Dickinson’s “Because I could not stop for Death” is a puzzling poem due to its symbolic and ambiguous nature. The poem centers upon her obsessive theme of Life, Death and Immortality. In the first stanza Death comes in a vehicle accompanied by Immortality. Death is kindly, thereby ironically... 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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