The Effulgence Within

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Wednesday, February 15, 2023

Tracing the historical development of Poetry

“A WAKE, Æolian lyre, awake, And give to rapture all thy trembling strings, From Helicon's harmonious springs... “ This is the poet Thomas Gray’s (1716 – 1771) Invocation to the Æolian lyre, that is, the lyre of the ancient Greek poet Pindar who lived between the 6 th and 5 th century B.C. Gray here... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, February 6, 2023

Shakespeare’s sparkling genius in Much Ado about Nothing

Much Ado About Nothing is the nearest approach to the Comedy of Errors as practised by William Congreve, where sentiment or passion is conveyed either by indifference or downright contradiction. The hero and the heroine of Much Ado, Benedick and Beatrice, by their very bickerings, assume a social... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, January 4, 2023

CELEBRATION by Wislawa Szymborska … a repeat

Birthday, by Wislawa Szymborska - if one were to describe it in one word, it is simply a most exquisite poem, so full of exuberance, so full of the gifts of God's bounty, so full of happy gaiety, so full of marvel, that it is natural for the poem to be a hearty outburst in its lyrical note and the... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, December 7, 2022

A BRONZE HEAD

W.B.Yeats’ poem A Bronze Head is addressed to a bronze-painted plaster cast bust of Maude Gonne in the Dublin Municpal Gallery. In her earlier years she was an intense passionate nationalist; eloquent and domineering, a beautiful-looking English-born Irish revolutionary, suffragette and actress.... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, November 27, 2022

The Changing, yet Changeless; illusion of Eternity

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/podcasts/76364/the-wild-swans-at-coole The setting of William Butler Yeats’ poem The Wild Swans at Coole (composed in 1916) is Coole Park, Lady Gregory’s estate in Galway, a county in thel West of the Republic of Ireland. The poem deals with the problem of ageing,... Sign in to see full entry.

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Surviving Old Age Agony through Spiritual strength

W.B.Yeats (1865 - 1939), referring to the country, Byzantium, he has left, says that it is “no country for old men”: it is full of youth and life, with the young lying in one another’s arms, birds singing in the trees, and fish swimming in the waters. Written when he was 61, "Sailing to Byzantium"... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, November 21, 2022

Language conveyed through Emotions, Reasoning and Expression

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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Monday, November 14, 2022

First search the Man within you

Urged by the body and the mind Forgetting all sane, good teachings behind Our sense organs again and again follow Helplessly, committing sins after sins shallow Manifestations of our boggy innards Tendencies - those craggy cowards Generations of wombs violent Sired by consciousness somnolent... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, November 11, 2022

Bacon tells us the real truth behind Truth.

Bacon is first of the English essayists. He uses the word essay in the sense of ‘assay’, that is, to asses. Bacon emerges as versatile genius in his essays. Of the renaissance age covering the entire 15 th and 16 th century, the age was a transitional one from the Middle Ages to modernity. As a... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, November 7, 2022

Knowledge befools us: Ignorance is Wisdom

It is difficult to translate the Sanskrit word ajnana (ignorance) for a lack of its English equivalent, hence the ambivalence.To the Western way of thinking the word 'ignorance' conveys a state of stupor or a "blanking out of the mind". But it is not so. All knowledge is of the mind - accumulation... 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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