The Effulgence Within

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Sunday, May 1, 2022

A Lesson in facing disaster with stoic fortitude

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 neo-classical pastoral tradition. His shepherds are the real shepherds of the English Lake District and not fanciful in an idyllic countryside.... Sign in to see full entry.

Saturday, April 30, 2022

Sweet Zephyr wafting in Spring

Tethered I was in a strange kingdom Of the obscure Somber A hearty welcome greeted me from the Recesses of a dank cave Cold and dark … ” Lemme outta here!” Oh no, said the voice “Remember The last November you came and I tried to show you your enclave?” “Yes, perforce I was wrapped in layers Of... Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, April 28, 2022

Be there no Lamentation when to the Light I Embark

Alfred Lord Tennyson could not be technically called a romantic poet, but his romanticism are only subtly detectable. However, highlighting these aspects of romanticism in Tennyson's work is difficult without first defining romanticism and identifying its underlying principles. The most popular poet... Sign in to see full entry.

Friday, April 22, 2022

Truth being Widespread and Pervasive, often makes it Insidious

The very first Sutra (sutra means "thread" that weaves a fabric) of Patanjali's Yoga aphorisms says it all. What I am paraphrasing here - will need to be rolled over a few times in the mind to get the sense. The spinning of the mind which we consider to be right knowledge is constituted of what we... Sign in to see full entry.

Saturday, April 16, 2022

Permanence of Art and Thought as against the Transience of mere Animal Life

The poem Sailing to Byzantium, was one of William Butler Yeats’ masterpieces he wrote in 1927. Byzantium (that is, Constantinople or Istanbul) was the capital of Eastern Roman Empire, an empire of Hellenic Christian culture which lasted from the third century A.D. to the fifteenth. An Old City of... Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, April 14, 2022

The Greatness of Wordsworth’s The Prelude

The Prelude is the greatest long poem in the English language after Paradise Lost. Its comparison with the great seventeenth-century epic is in some respects a happy one since Milton was (after Coleridge) Wordsworth's greatest idol. The Prelude, despite its epic proportions (he wrote it... Sign in to see full entry.

The One Mantra of being Happy

A very ugly girl was sitting at a beach, when the waves washed a bottle at her feet. She opened it - and out blew a huge genie in a billow of smoke. "I have been a prisoner in this bottle for three thousand years." cried the genie, "and now you have freed me. As a reward, I will fulfill any wish you... Sign in to see full entry.

Saturday, March 19, 2022

The Three Stages which helped Shape Wordsworth’s Mind and Character

Wordsworth believed that it was to Nature that he owed most in the formation of his mind and character. The Prelude is actually his autobiography in verse, and Books I and II deals with Nature as nurse, guide and guardian to Wordsworth in his early years. Wordsworth points to three stages in their... Sign in to see full entry.

Saturday, March 12, 2022

So lonely ’twas that God Himself scarce seem’d there to be

The Ancient Mariner is the story of a real-life sea voyage pervaded by a supernatural atmosphere. A couple, on way to attending a wedding, is suddenly stopped by an old mariner, and catching hold of the guest's hands, starts telling his mysterious sea voyage story. The stranger is naturally,... Sign in to see full entry.

Monday, February 28, 2022

A Satyr against Mankind and Reason

John Wilmot, (1647 – 1680), the second Earl of Rochester England, Viscount in Ireland, was an English poet and courtier of King Charles II’s Restoration court, he was infamous in his time for his life and works, was the cynosure of the libertine wits of Restoration England. The Restoration reacted... Sign in to see full entry.

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