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Thursday, April 16, 2026

Pied Beauty —. A Curtal Sonnet by Gerard Manley Hopkins

Glory be to God for dappled things – For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow; For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim; Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches’ wings; Landscape plotted and pieced – fold, fallow, and plough; And áll trádes, their gear and tackle and trim. All things... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, April 14, 2026

Clothed Alike by Enjoying the Pervasive Presence of Nature (An old one)

In Frost at Midnight (1798), a conversation poem, Coleridge takes the instance of solitude to project his reflections to expand to his love of nature. Coleridge here explores the relationship between environment and happiness and also reflects on the idyllic innocence of childhood. Late one night,... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, April 11, 2026

Wordsworth’s Conception of Child as The Father of Man

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.

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Thursday, April 9, 2026

Societal Ills as Metaphors that Literally Eat away our Lives

Ghosts is a 1881 play by the Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. It was first staged in 1882 in Chicago, Illinois. Like many of Ibsen's writings, the play is a scathing commentary on 19th-century morality. The main theme of Ghosts is the extent to which society invades personal lives. Mrs. Alving,... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, April 7, 2026

The Terrible Sonnets of Hopkins -No Worst, There in None

No worst, there is none. Pitched past pitch of grief, More pangs will, schooled at forepangs, wilder wring. Comforter, where, where is your comforting? Mary, mother of us, where is your relief? My cries heave, herds-long; huddle in a main, a chief Woe, wórld-sorrow; on an áge-old anvil wince and... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, April 4, 2026

Fowles’s The French Lieutenant’s Woman

(I propose to give a short summary of this long novel by John Fowles - a classic 1969 writer - which has probably two or even three conclusions and mysteries abound. Here it goes —- The French Lieutenant’s Woman, as with each Chapter of thr novel, Chapter One begins with an epigraph. This first one... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, March 31, 2026

Hold off, Unhand me, Grey-beard Loon

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.

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Hold off, Unhand me, Grey- beardLoon

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.

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Wednesday, March 25, 2026

The Wise Children…. Angela Carter

The Wise Children is a story about identical twin sisters, Dora and Nora, who built their careers as dancers and showgirls. The narrator of the novel is Dora and she begins the story with the day of their seventy-fifth birthday which is the present day in the plot of the novel. She talks about their... 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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