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Saturday, February 1, 2025

The Dead Soldier is both the enemy Killed and the Poet Himself

Wilfred Owen’s Strange Meeting is a protest, not simply against war but against the glamorizing of war. If we think of it as a dream, it is founded on actual incidents of soldiers whom the poet saw die in the tunneled dug-outs. Escaping into a “profound dull tunnel” the poet comes on “encumbered... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, January 28, 2025

Picture of a Remote Britain before the Advent of Christianity

Shakespeare’s King Lear is founded on a childish incident where an old king decides to give away his kingdom to the child who professes to love him most. And this primitive groundwork is matched by the primitiveness of its people and the world in which they live. Here is a picture of a remote and... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, January 24, 2025

Fatalistic Absolutism in Shakespeare’s Plays (A repeat)

( Please excuse me for this long write but somehow I couldn’t stop myself). Absolutism is a characteristic trait in Shakespearean tragedies, and the concept has been managed with great finesse in many of the heroic portrayals of its protagonists. Shakespeare exploited the immense potential for... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, January 19, 2025

Book Learning Drowns while Experiential Learning Enlightens

( The inspiration of this write-up is the result of C C T’s and Sea Gypsy’s comment to my previous blog article. C C T observes, “ I suppose it depends on the poet. One declares that most work depends on one’s existence. Whilst the other believes most inspiration is achieved by formers study”) Sea... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, January 16, 2025

An argument between Exponents of Intuitive and Rational thought

Wordsworth’s deep love for the ‘ beauteous forms ’ of the natural world was established early during his childhood. He, in collaboration with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, later wrote the Lyrical Ballads published in 1800, (beginning 1798 he continued to write sporadically until his death in 1850) — a... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, January 8, 2025

Charles Lamb’s aromatic prose style like the perfume of faded rose-leaves

Charles lamb’s prose style, as seen in his essays, is elaborate with affectation, borrowed yet absolutely individual and idiosyncratic, mannered but never mannerised. Indeed, what seems artificial in Lamb’s style is actually natural to him. Lamb belonged in spirit to the seventeenth century, and the... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, January 3, 2025

Arnold’s Thyrsis as a Pastoral Elegy

Thyrsis, a well-known pastoral elegy, was composed by Arnold on the death of his scholar-friend Arthur Hugh Clough, his classmate and childhood friend. In this poem Arnold wonders at night alone over the familiar Oxford countryside. He has no hope for the future as he contemplates for the loss of... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, December 31, 2024

Be there no Lamentation when to Light I embark

Alfred Lord Tennyson could not be technically called a romantic poet, but his romanticism are only subtly detectable. However, highlighting these aspects of romanticism in Tennyson's work is difficult without first defining romanticism and identifying its underlying principles. The most popular poet... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, December 27, 2024

The masterly poetic diction, music and rhythms of Tennyson in Lotos- Eaters

Tennyson’s The Lotos-Eaters portrays a dreamy, languorous life where work has ceased and all incentive to work is non-existent. Once the mariners have eaten of the honey-sweet lotos they become enamoured of its half-life and turn away from all toil and obligation. They would prefer even death to... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, December 26, 2024

3. 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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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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