The Effulgence Within

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Tuesday, August 19, 2025

The Mystic Fragrance of the Worldly yet Other-Worldly 💕 Love

Just as the dying breath of a good man is silent and imperceptible, so should no violent sorrow show the world how much they loved; thus John Donne wishes in his poem A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning, one of his finest of metaphysical poetries. The mysterious indefinable love for his beloved,... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, August 10, 2025

A Stylistic Masterpiece of John Milton —. LYCIDAS

“Lycidas”. by John Milton (1608 – 1674) is technically speaking, a pastoral elegy. Death is the inspiration and sole theme of an elegy, and one of its subtype is the pastoral elegy originated by the Sicilian Greek poets – Theocritus, Bion and Moschus, their funeral dirges being known in antiquity as... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, August 5, 2025

Lost in Slumer

Away was I, far away, to lands distant Not in the moment, not in the instant No inspiration, no motivation, no cheer, no liveliness Only non-stimulation, lax in my laxity, flux-cum-unfixity Hinged - not falling not rising; ice-like -- neither water nor vapor Vacuous, lacking in content, intent,... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, July 30, 2025

Addressed to ☹️ Sorrow

Joy, O Joy, the beautiful one! You, the most Unfathomable mystery - enigmatic, overwhelming! Take us into your folds not as guest but a host Fly us to the land where sorrows abound, overflowing Tears express; not always of sadness necessarily They appear ever so often as companions in negativity,... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, July 25, 2025

The Never Ever Repayable Debt

The Poet Laureate from Herefordshire (her-uh-ferd- sheer) country 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... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, July 17, 2025

Tears are the Graceful Lyrical Fluency of Great Sadness

Alfred, LordTennyson’s lyric “ Tears, Idle Tears ” expresses the deepest feelings of sadness with graceful fluency. The lyric wonders as to the meaning of tears that spring from our innermost depths and making way through the heart collect in the eyes. And the selfsame tears fill our eyes when the... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, July 15, 2025

LULLABY

Wystan Hugh Auden's "Lullaby” opens with a picture of the poet watching his beloved sleeping peacefully on his “faithless” arm, one he himself cannot trust ( some critics have interpreted the scene to be a post-coital one, with which I do not agree ); while she, on the contrary, sleeps absolutely... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, July 3, 2025

Poems of Mental Record of Severe Mood Swings

Many of the English hymnodist William Cowper’s poems are a mental record of his mood swings of severe depression. He yearned that his torrid love affair with his first cousin Theodora be culminated in marriage. It could not, because of his father’s strong opposition to an unsociable alliance. This... Sign in to see full entry.

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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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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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