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Monday, April 20, 2020

Cheer up from the gathering darkness of old age

“Be with me, Beauty, for the fire is dying; My dog and I are old, too old for roving. Man, whose young passion sets the spindrift flying, Is soon too lame to march, too cold for loving.” The British Poet Laureate from 1930 to 1967, John Masefield wrote this poem “On Growing Old”, in 1919 when he was... Sign in to see full entry.

Saturday, April 18, 2020

The Guest, but Who?

Poem Rain came in torrents with a pall of dark descending My day’s work done and the last guest gone, I locked the door of my tavern. Knock, knock! Who can be there? Weary and trodden, I ignored peeping through the door None can at this ungodly hour be my guest “Come”, said I, “lay to your rest”.... Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, April 15, 2020

The Attraction of Tragedy

“Among the constituent parts of Tragedy, the prime importance is of the Plot” says Aristotle in his Poetics, adding that the “most powerful elements of attraction in Tragedy, the Peripeteia and Discovery, are parts of the Plot”. He defines Peripeteia as: “the change from one state of things within... Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, April 9, 2020

That Night Windless

Tonight’s the darkest of windless nights Up there, in boundless heights Sat twinkling stars burning bright Utter silence! Yet they seemred To converse in hushed whisper Rapt in attention saw them flicker listened intently what they beamed The void separating each zillions of miles, Converged; a... Sign in to see full entry.

Saturday, April 4, 2020

Pope’s use of the Supernatural Machinery in The Rape of the Lock

Dr. Samuel Johnson remarked about Alexander Pope that “If Pope be not a poet, where is poetry to be found?” Pope’s The Rape is a social satire as well as a mock-heroic epic. Here, he mocks at the “little unguarded follies” of the fair sex, and at the artificial social life of 18th Century London as... Sign in to see full entry.

Monday, March 30, 2020

The Fashionable World of the early 18th Century London

The ‘Rape of the Lock‘ portrays the fashionable world of early 18th century London. Pope’s world gains reality partly from the lavish detail in which he invests the customs, favourite meeting-places, manners and interest of the fashionable society of the age. His readers would know at once that the... Sign in to see full entry.

Sunday, March 29, 2020

The enduring nature of Mutablity

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 Other... Sign in to see full entry.

Friday, March 20, 2020

Poetry and its Language

Wordsworth wrote the famous “Preface” to Lyrical Ballads in which he developed his view of the nature of poetic process, the origin and purpose of poetry, and the language most suitable for it. The “ Preface ” is at once a recoil against the stilted and imitative poetry of the eighteenth century and... Sign in to see full entry.

Monday, March 9, 2020

The Essential Being of Man is Never Tarnished

Here is an account and a glorious illustration of how even the most sinful man can become righteous, and attain the highest illumination and peace though the grace of the Supreme Spirit is seen in the life of Girish Chandra Ghosh, the famous nineteenth century Bengali musician, playwright, writer,... Sign in to see full entry.

Friday, March 6, 2020

Give yourself to breaking into pieces

Whenever the heart breaks out in sheer delight, those moments you must have experienced at times, are the moments you are really joyful, when joy is at its pinnacle, then joy becomes unbearable. Ironically, it produces pain. The extremes of any feeling, be it of the negative or the positive kind -... 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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