Urged by the body and the mind Forgetting all sane, good teachings behind Our sense organs again and again follow Helplessly, committing sins after sins shallow Manifestations of our boggy innards Tendencies - those craggy cowards Generations of wombs violent Sired by consciousness somnolent... Sign in to see full entry.
Bacon is first of the English essayists. He uses the word essay in the sense of ‘assay’, that is, to asses. Bacon emerges as versatile genius in his essays. Of the renaissance age covering the entire 15 th and 16 th century, the age was a transitional one from the Middle Ages to modernity. As a... Sign in to see full entry.
It is difficult to translate the Sanskrit word ajnana (ignorance) for a lack of its English equivalent, hence the ambivalence.To the Western way of thinking the word 'ignorance' conveys a state of stupor or a "blanking out of the mind". But it is not so. All knowledge is of the mind - accumulation... Sign in to see full entry.
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.
In As You Like It, love lives in many forms – in Orlando and Rosalind, Celia and Oliver, Silvius and Phoebe, Touchstone and Audrey. In the play, the lovers love one another at first sight. Dead shepherd, now I find thy saw of might Who ever lov’d that lov’d not at first sight It is the cry of Phoebe... Sign in to see full entry.
The Forest of Arden is set over against the envious court ruled by a tyrant. But it is no Elysium. It contains some unsociable characters. Corin's master is churlish, William iis a dolt and Audrey graceless. Its weather is not always sunny: it has a bitter winter. Even to the escapers from the... Sign in to see full entry.
Rosalind is a girl of beauty, a beauty which is combined with grace and dignity. It is the deep affection between Celia and Rosalind that keeps Rosalind at court. “Like Juno’s swans Still we went coupled and inseparable”. In the Forest of Arden she is able to give expression to her innate vivacity... Sign in to see full entry.
The English poet laureate of the mid-eighteenth century, William Collins, was regarded by Swinburne as a solitary song-bird amidst the poets of his age. But, in the opinion of H.W. Garrod, Collins is not a singer, nor is there passion in his odes. Elevation his odes have, but the wings, fire, the... Sign in to see full entry.
One of the finest poems of William Collins (1721 - 1759) is the Ode to Simplicity (1747), written when he was 26 years old is an urging call for us all to lead a simple and humble life without any artificially. Collins, who is one of the transitional poets like William Blake, William Cowper... Sign in to see full entry.
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.