The Effulgence Within

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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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Monday, December 23, 2024

Tennyson’s The Lady of Shalott

Tennyson’s Tennyson’s “The Lady of Shalott” is a ballad based on the episode of the Arthurian legend centering on the gallant knight Sir Lancelot. The fair lady of Shalott” lives alone in her tower in a riverain (dwelling near a river) island. A curse would befall upon her if she looks out directly... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, December 12, 2024

Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s Ulysses

Alfred, Lord Tennyson wrote the poem 'Ulysses' in October 1833, based on the mythical Greek hero, Odysseus, of the famous Trojan War. Tennyson was saddened at the news of the death of his good friend, Arthur Hallam, whom he loved and admired. The poem is a parallel with the theme of ‘leaving’ -- of... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, November 29, 2024

The Language of the Forsaken Garden suggests more than it states

In Swinburne’s The Forsaken Garden has for its setting the West Undercliff in the extreme south of the Isle of Wight, an Isle off the south coast of England. The choice of one such desolate, far-off place gives us the impression that the place is as distanced from Swinburns as is one extreme corner... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, November 8, 2024

Eliot’s “Portrait of a Lady”..A Contrast between True and False Sensitivity

T.S. Eliot’s poem “The Portrait of a Lady” (composed 1910) is a descriptive monologue concerned with the meetings between a middle-aged society lady and a much younger man during a course spanning ten months. It was suggested by the poet’s visit to one Miss Adelaine Moffat, a well-known Boston... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, November 4, 2024

Aeschylus: the Greek master tragedian’s “The Oresteia”

Aeschylus’ Agamemnon is the story of a hereditary blood-feud. It deals with only the middle phase in the gruesome happenings which span three generations. Cly·​tem·​nes·​tra ˌklī-təm-ˈne-strə: the wife and murderess of Agamemnon. In the opening scene Agamemnon returns to his kingdom in triumph after... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, October 31, 2024

Shelley’s Mutability

Mutability Shelley’s ‘Mutability’, unlike his other poems, is somber and romantically philosophical, with clear and vivid imaginative details drawing a parallel of human experiences to that of Nature’s. This poem was first published in 1816 in the collection, Alastor, or The Spirit of Solitude: And... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, October 26, 2024

Eugene Ionesco’s Study as a blunt symbol of man's inherent savage nature

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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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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