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Tuesday, March 31, 2026

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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Tuesday, March 3, 2026

Our sufferings will turn into joy for those who will be living after us

Anton Chekov’s play The Three Sisters (1901) centers around the lives of three sisters. The eldest Olga, an old maid of twenty-eight, teaches at a girls’ school; the middle sister Masha is unhappily married to a school teacher; the youngest Irina, who is twenty and unmarried, is wooed by two army... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, March 1, 2026

Kubla Khan & The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, a poem in seven parts by Samuel Taylor Coleridge which first appeared in Lyrical Ballads, was published jointly by Coleridge and William Wordsworth in 1798 The longest major poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, is one of the most famous poems in the English language. The... Sign in to see full entry.

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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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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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