The Effulgence Within

By anib - About Me - E-mail this page - Add to My Favorites - Add to Blog List - See other blogs in Religion & Spirituality

Sunday, April 15, 2012

Chaucer has no peer save Shakespeare

Humor is the stuff and substance of Chaucer’s entire mental constitution. His humor is so subtle, so delicate, so trenchant and penetrating in its spread that it is difficult to locate in isolation at any fixed place when reading the Canterbury Tales. Indeed, the exquisite combination of variety and... Sign in to see full entry.

posted by anib at 11:25 PM | add or view comments (2) | leave calling card | link to this | view only this entry

Monday, March 19, 2012

AWAKE, Æolian Lyre, Awake

“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.

posted by anib at 1:23 AM | add or view comments (3) | leave calling card | link to this | view only this entry

Monday, March 12, 2012

Ecstasy - The Other Dimension of Love

I am a fan of the metaphysical poets --- --- and was absolutely delighted to find ecstasy defined in one of John Donne’s poem by the same title. It is, he explains, the realization through a temporary disassociation of the soul from the body and what all happens thereafter that ecstasy descends. The... Sign in to see full entry.

posted by anib at 9:35 PM | add or view comments (5) | leave calling card | link to this | view only this entry

Tuesday, March 6, 2012

The Glorious Function of Literature according to Horace

Born about half a century BC, the Roman poet Horace is one of the distinguished exponents of the classical school of criticism. Interestingly, the son of a slave, Horace was also a soldier who served under the leadership of General Brutus, after Julius Caesar's assassination. He believed that great... Sign in to see full entry.

posted by anib at 8:31 PM | add or view comments (4) | leave calling card | link to this | view only this entry

Saturday, March 3, 2012

The Swan-like Soul of the Artist

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.

posted by anib at 3:14 AM | add or view comments (4) | leave calling card | link to this | view only this entry

Thursday, March 1, 2012

Deconceptualized Human Perceptions

M odern Quantum Physics states: "The essential stuff from which the universe is made of, is non-matter". 7000 years ago the Vedas declared that "t he one and only existent form of eternity is the Void from which come all things". Note the uncanny similarity of the conclusions of both; it is... Sign in to see full entry.

posted by anib at 5:40 AM | add or view comments (7) | leave calling card | link to this | view only this entry

Monday, February 27, 2012

Life is indeed Enriched by Dreams (A Repost)

Dreams are a wonderfully compensatory mechanism given us by God, one that sustains us through the thick and thins of life. They make come back to life all that ever was dear to us - lost or dead. This is brought out so beautifully and tellingly in Donne’s The Dream, in a style typical of the... Sign in to see full entry.

posted by anib at 8:42 PM | add or view comments (6) | leave calling card | link to this | view only this entry

Friday, February 17, 2012

Seeking a Quenching

(one of my earlier posts with few changes) My heart is stone-dead, parched up dry No song, no dulcet rhyme and sans Sorrow makes me cry Be thou me; engulf me with thy showers of grace O Noble one, take away all my cloggings - they trace, They chase, they haunt, beyond all my favorite haunts – To... Sign in to see full entry.

posted by anib at 7:50 PM | add or view comments (5) | leave calling card | link to this | view only this entry

Thursday, February 9, 2012

A Study of Characterization in Chaucer

Chaucer was one of the amazing early writers who was able to reach great mass appeal. He achieves mastery not by telling his story, but by how to make a correct decision, how to elect a leader, how to know when you can trust a group-leader to be unselfish; all so relevant to us even today. The Host... Sign in to see full entry.

posted by anib at 6:59 PM | add or view comments (3) | leave calling card | link to this | view only this entry

Monday, February 6, 2012

There Was a Boy

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

posted by anib at 7:54 PM | add or view comments (5) | leave calling card | link to this | view only this entry

About this Blog

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?

Recent Entries
People
Blogs

Headlines (What is this?)