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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
, 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.
Just as medicines are necessary to repair bodily ailments, so is 'meditation' medicinal for the mind to keep it perfectly healthy, peaceful and in a state of equanimous tranquil. The mind must be emptied of all toxins. Unlike the western concept that 'an empty mind is a devil's workshop', the... Sign in to see full entry.
The familiar conventional view of Joan of Arc (1412 – 1431) pictures her as a romantic heroic soldier done to death by cruelly unjust religious fanatics Shaw’s Joan is still a simple unlettered country lass in her teens, a virgin soldier-saint, still the called-of-God, still the martyred-by-men.... Sign in to see full entry.