The Effulgence Within

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Wednesday, February 25, 2026

A territory much more colorful and sensuous than the humdrum of real life.

Kubla Khan has the sub-title “A Vision in a Dream”, and Coleridge’s Preface states that the poem came to him in a dream, but that being interrupted while setting it down, he was unable to finish it. He described the poem as a “fragment” and a “psychological curiosity”. Kubla Khan is a triumphant... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, February 21, 2026

O Grave, keep shut lest I be shamed

The Poet Laureate from Herefordshire County in western England, John Masefield lost his mother at six years of age who died while giving birth to his sister. This heartrending experience at an impressionable age left an indelible mark of sorrow on his soul which he found almost impossible to... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, February 19, 2026

Legion of Religionists (an old contribution of mine)

Hopefully I’ll be fit and fine now onwards, as I’ve now home after two rounds of stay in the hospital ICU. The first one, for a complicated spinal surgery and then two months later, having to be rushed to another hospital for a sudden huge drop in my oxygen levels which, for many would be most... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, February 3, 2026

Significance of the Name Stephan Dedalus in James Joyce’s “A Portrait”

In James Joyce 's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Stephen Dedalus has been a spiritual exile from his social surroundings since childhood. When he is at the Belvedere College he champions Byron, Shelley and Ibsen. He is accused of heresy in an essay and sees himself "proud and sensitive and... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, February 2, 2026

The Pathetic Old Beggar - Let Him Die Inseparably a Part of Nature

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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Thursday, January 29, 2026

Chaucer has been rightly called the father of English Poetry

Chaucer, a late medieval poet, has been rightly regarded as the "father of English poetry“. What makes him so singular is that without losing sight of the present he looked ahead towards the future. The modern “element” in Chaucer is noticed in his language, metre and his outlook on life. In respect... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, January 21, 2026

Tyrants, Monarchs, Dictators all Meet Nemesis on the Day of their Reckoning

Shelly’s Ozymandias (1817), is a commentary in sonnet, on the eventual short-lived nature of absolute power. Shelley, the Utopian, believed that tyrants, monarchs, dictators, no matter how powerful, do come to meet their nemesis on the day of their reckoning, and the language runs perfectly in... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, January 17, 2026

Wilfred Owen’s “Strange Meeting” as one of his Greatest Poems of Ugliness

Wilfred Owen’s Strange Meeting is a protest, not simply against war but against the glamorizing of war. If we think of it as a dream, it is founded on actual incidents of soldiers whom the poet saw die in the tunneled dug-outs. Strange Meeting” was written in 1918, just a few months before Owen’s... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, January 9, 2026

Coleridge’s Imaginative Use of the Ballad Style

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 ship - the dicing demons on the deck evoking a fearful nightmare of... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, December 31, 2025

No Sacrifice Can Ever Match the Greatness of a Mother’s

Ever since my complicated spine surgery was conducted on the 4th of this month, I now feel much better although my back sore will start easing fully only after 3 months or so. The doctor, Amit Chakravorty, 50, was simply brilliant. Today’s poem I wrote as a thanks-giving to all my well-wishing... 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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