The Effulgence Within

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Sunday, November 29, 2009

The Divide in the Division

Two disciples, serious practitioners both, so goes the Zen story Ate of two bowls the one; his brother, of only one bone china The same food served at their revered monk’s monastery Pale and shriveled shrank one, the other, grew to a wiry hyena Worried and wearied asked he of his friend “Tell me O... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, November 27, 2009

A Momentous Reunion

It was as idyllic as a sunny Sunday could be, the surrounding treelines and the tiny specks of clouds in the otherwise clear skies seemed as if undulating in a soft breeze, the temperature hovering around an amiably soothing 72 degree Fahrenheit, promised a perfect day to go frolicking in happy... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Life in Kinship

Wordsworth’s poem “ The Old Cumberland Beggar ” was composed in 1798 and published in Lyrical Ballads (1800 edition). It is a touching narrative of kindness keeping a shell of a man alive; while also an exhortation against the legislative measures to get beggars into poorhouses. Scoffing at the... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, November 23, 2009

The Lucy Mystery

Of the five Lucy poems composed by Wordsworth four were printed in Lyrical Ballads of 1800. These four poems, all in the lyrical vein, are sober meditations on the death or apprehension of death of a girl who was the object of a deep and tender love. The love is not impassioned but meditated in... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Strength of resolute unbending spirit

Another classic, immediately gripping, a narrative poem, 484 lines, if you are interested, it's Here. Such a worthwhile read it was for me. W ordsworth’s poem “Michael” occurs in Lyrical Ballads (1800). The poem’s sub-title “A pastoral poem” indicates that the poet is consciously rejecting the... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, November 20, 2009

Behind the World of Echoes

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.

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Thursday, November 19, 2009

She was a Phantom of Delight

I share my further delight of Wordsworth's wonderful poems... (they are of a mystic's) Wordsworth’s poem “ She was a Phantom of Delight ” is a tribute to his wife Mary Hutchinson who was his cousin and, while a girl, had been his schoolmate. They both were born in 1770 and were united in marriage in... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Universality of language in tranquillity

"The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more." ( The Solitary Reaper ) In the course of one of his walking tours, Wordsworth once saw a Scottish Highland girl reaping and singing all alone in a field. Her song, which had a melancholy ring, filled the entire valley, and the poet was... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, November 17, 2009

On the Nature and Purpose of Poetry

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.

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Monday, November 16, 2009

Poem # 2255663320 (Rhyme unrhyme scheme)

Surprisingly, I won a prize for an idiotic poem - 'Extempore' at IIT, Chicago. Her it is. The topic was "Complain, and I'll never let you." Man's drink Woman's poison One swig, just one please Then I'll not, promise never Lemme live today, just fo'the day Complain I'll no more, no more, No more Dear... 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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