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Tuesday, July 27, 2021

Rhinoceros: A study in Abuse of Logic

Hailed as one of the greatest Romanian playwrights, Eugene Ionesco wrote his dramas in French. Having spent his childhood in utter poverty, he came to believe that life's paradoxes were absurd and "out of harmony". Thus, the play, Rhinoceros, belongs to the Theatre of the Absurd. – the theatre that... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, July 25, 2021

Lotos Eaters: Tennyson’s story of Paradisiac Languor

The long-drawn ten years’ war in Troy has ended. The ship of Odysseus (that is, Ulysses) sets sail for homeward journey. The mariners sight land. A few of them go to explore the region. The air, languid, all quiet reigned. The streams seemed slumberous in movement. It was a land where nothing... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, July 23, 2021

Who is Godot? Reverse it - ToDog, Or, it is To Dodge?

Samuel Beckett, an Irish playwright's Waiting for Godot is a 1953 play of the "Theatre of the Absurd". The play is the story of two tramps, Vladimir and Estragon who meet at a country roadside spot, waiting for Godot, an enigmatic being, but he never arrives. His non-arrival provides the only fact... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, July 22, 2021

DEATH - Emily Dickinson

“Because I could not stop for Death”, reads the first line of the poem. It has been argued by various critics as to the exact meaning conveyed by the poem. All you readers out there may wish to have a look at this short poem, here. I present my interpretation along with a request to you fine poets... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, July 21, 2021

Coleridge’s Imaginative use of the Ballad Style

Her lips were red, her looks were free, Her locks were yellow as gold: Her skin was as white as leprosy … We see in the above lines of “ The Ancient Mariner” the medieval influence of the supernatural at work in the skeletal ship - the dicing demons on the deck evoking a fearful nightmare of... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, July 18, 2021

Beware (A Repeat)

D uped was I, a victim of deceit the ersatz The handiwork of an impoverished soul; I knew him Hurt came to offer his sympathies But I sent him away with a polite Thank You. Some relations are best kept in abeyance Others, fit to be kept in the stables, tethered How is it that they end so soon Even... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, July 15, 2021

Spiritual Alcoholic

Soaked in alcohol lives that man In sane sobriety, I live in mine own Who knows who’s insane? He, or me? God-intoxication Spiritual alcoholism Are one and the same. Sign in to see full entry.

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A Touching Narrative of Kindness keeping a shell of a Man Alive

Wordsworth’s poem “ The Old Cumberland Beggar ” ( click here ) 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.... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, July 13, 2021

Let us break into pieces

Did you know that whenever the heart breaks out in sheer delight, these moments I'm sure you must have experienced at times, when you are really joyful, when joy is at its pinnacle, then joy becomes unbearable. It may even, ironically, produce pain - as in Keats' Nightingale Ode - "It is not through... Sign in to see full entry.

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Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect

A friend of mine sent this which I found quite funny and wanted to share... A keen immigrant Indian Marwadi lad (when it comes to business, Marwadis are a community no less than the proverbial Jews) applied for a salesman's job at London 's premier downtown department store. In fact, it was the... 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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