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Tuesday, September 5, 2023

The Astounding Vedic calculations of The Age of the Universe.

Inspired by Sea Gypsy Just as God in Christianity is the Supreme Being, the be-all and end-all of all things manifest or unmanifest, so is Hindu God conceived to be three plenary expansions of the same Energy of the Supreme Being, only the roles each assume are different. First we call Brahma, the G... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, August 13, 2023

Real and Lasting Knowledge -Wisdom - comes from a State of Wise Passiveness

Expostulation and Reply”, which is one of the doctrinal poems in Lyrical Ballads, takes the form of a debate between William, who is Wordsworth himself, and his “good friend” Matthew, who is Hazlitt. The first three stanzas contain Matthew’s remonstrance; the last four stanzas contain William’s... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, August 10, 2023

Is Tragedy Cathartic

The Greek word Catharsis means the release of emotional tension – Pity and Fear — after an overwhelming vicarious experience, as of watching a drama, resulting in the purification of these unhealthy, sickly conditions of the soul. In Aristotle’s Poetics, this is the chief function of Tragedy. The... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, August 2, 2023

Fatalistic Absolutism in Shakespearean Plays

Fatalistic Absolutism in Shakespeare’s Plays Absolutism is a characteristic trait in Shakespearean tragedies, and the concept has been managed with great finesse in many of the heroic portrayals of its protagonists. Shakespeare exploited the immense potential for broadening and applying the platform... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, July 24, 2023

The Song of Universality

I see with wondrous eyes the dances Of life and death going on unceasingly Without a pause, for there are no full stops or commas In the cosmic cycle of Nature; it is always a continuous “IS” A yellowed leaf falls, detached from the tree, silently Without leaving a tear or a scar behind; it happily... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, July 12, 2023

Coleridge’s Supreme Art in Ballad Style

Fear, sorrow, love, sadness and death, are all subjects of ballad songs. Her lips were red, her looks were free, Her locks were yellow as gold: Her skin was as white as leprosy … We see in the above lines of “The Ancient Mariner” the medieval influence of the supernatural at work in the skeletal... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, June 24, 2023

Eugene Ionesco’s Rhinoceros - An Abuse of Logic

Hailed as one of the greatest Romanian playwrights, Eugene Ionesco wrote his dramas in French. Having spent his childhood in utter poverty, he came to believe that life's paradoxes were absurd and "out of harmony". Thus, the play, Rhinoceros, belongs to the Theatre of the Absurd. – the theatre that... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, June 16, 2023

Who and where are Ghosts?

" Ghosts”, meaning “those who come back” refers to people, ideas or beliefs from the past that affects life in the present. The prevalence of such “ghosts” is a major theme in the Norwegian playwright, Henrik Ibsen’s Ghosts, written in 1881, a powerful as also a controversial play. Taboo topics,... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, June 8, 2023

The Lucy Mystery

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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Friday, June 2, 2023

The Concept and Nature of Hell in Milton’s Peradise Lost

Modem critics have held many different views of Milton’s Paradise Lost. Among these the major objection has been that the Book, a twelve volume epic, is militantly Christian and does not adhere to diverse viewpoints of the modern age. Milton’s religious views are actually a mirror of the age in... 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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