The Effulgence Within

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Tuesday, June 17, 2025

That Area of Human Life where Men Exist without a Guiding Faith

(A most difficult ‘fragmented’ poem to analyze). Written in 1922, Thomas Stearns Eliot won the Nobel prize for Literature in 1948. The Waste Land, well-known for its ground-breaking 20th century poetry of dense and allusion-heavy poems, is also the most widely talked about poets of literary history.... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, June 15, 2025

The Blind Tiresias’ Poetic Vision in The Waste Land

One of the ground breaking styles of the twentieth century fragmented kaleidoscopic poems, T.S. Eliot’s THE WASTE LAND is a projection of the psychological oscillations and conflicts which raged in the soul of man in the early twentieth century. He felt that Western civilization had become... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, June 11, 2025

Part 2 … Emotions, Reasons/ Logic and Decision making.

Music is another form of the representation of emotions. The great musician, composer Beethoven was a victim of bipolar disorder, a condition where the patient is incapable of judging the degree of emotions which therefore, leads to extreme display of behavioural mood swings, of sadness, joy, anger... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, June 5, 2025

Emotions: It’s Purposes and Expressions

Emotion is a distinct feeling of consciousness, such as joy, sadness, anger, that reflects the personal significance of an emotion-arousing event. Emotions are central to the issues of human survival and adaptation. They motivate the development of moral behaviour which lies at the very root of... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, May 29, 2025

Bacon’s Attitude to Morals in his Essays

Bacon regarded the Essay as a receptacle for detached thoughts. He speaks of them as “dispersed meditations”. Weighty wisdom, phrased with point and brevity is scattered throughout his essays. Many of Bacon’s essays deal with ethical qualities of men. But in his treatment of morals he makes no... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, May 27, 2025

A Divine Song of Universality … (A Repeat)

With wondrous eyes I see the dance 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 a tree, silently Without leaving a tear or a scar behind; it happily... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, May 20, 2025

The Felicity and Perfection of Thomas Gray’s “Elegy”

The greatness of Thomas Gray’s Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard has never been doubted. The poem is a chain of melancholy musings on the obscure lot of the humble village folk who lie buried at Stoke Poges in Buckinghamshire. It reveals much of Gray’s mental attitudes, moods and beliefs. In the... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, May 15, 2025

Examining rather than Resolving Life’s Instability and Decay

Composed sometime between 1806 and 1809, The Excursion is a part of Wordsworth's epic/poem The Recluse. At the time Wordsworth himself was greatly disenchanted by the ongoing French Revolution with its attendant atrocities and oppression. This long poem was first published in 1814. The Solitary... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, May 12, 2025

The Capacity for Re-echoing the Sublimities of Nature.

In There Was a Boy, Wordsworth addresses not the boy who is now dead but the cliffs and islands of Lake Windermere that have outlasted him. The scene is widened to take the stars rising in the east and setting. It is in the context of the vast spaces of the universe and the inexorable movement of... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, May 3, 2025

Ludicrous Heroism of a Renaissance Scholar

, A company of a grammarian's pupils are bearing their master's coffin for burial at the summit of a mountain. One of them tells his story and dilates on the praises of the departed scholar. They cannot fittingly bury their master on the plain with the common folk. He shall rest on a peak whose... 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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