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Friday, January 3, 2020

Behind the World of Echoes

In There Was a Boy, Wordsworth addresses not the boy who is now dead but the cliffs and islands of Lake Windermere that had outlasted him. The scene is widened to take the stars rising in the east and setting. It is in this context of the vast spaces of the universe and the inexorable movement of... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, December 31, 2019

J O Y

In one of the stories by Leo Tolstoy 'What Men Live By', an angel is sent to the earth by God to learn some important lessons in life, one of which is: "What is not given to man?" Through his experiences on earth, the angel learns that 'It is not given to man to know his own needs'. Explaining the... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, December 26, 2019

Eliot’s The Journey of the Magi (A Repeat with minor changes)

Christmas theme is the subject matter of T.S. Eliot's poem The Journey of the Magi. It starts with one of the three Magus' narrating to us the story long after the event has happened; the Magi symbolizing the three wise men of the east who come to Bethlehem to witness the birth of Christ, the... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, December 9, 2019

Of Existence and Joy

ONE common experience of all mankind is that joy rejuvenates, joy recharges our worn out energies. Anything that is integral and of which we are an undivided part, on being able even to accidentally touch, or be connected to the very source, our core - gives us joy. If we argue that we exist as part... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, November 16, 2019

The subliminal connotation of a ‘Prude in a Frock’.

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 hostess... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, November 8, 2019

The Power Of Creative Imagination

My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk: 'Tis not through envy of thy happy lot, But being too happy in thine happiness,— That thou, light-winged Dryad of the trees In... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, November 6, 2019

Something that Concerns the Essence of Living.

Almost every single day, I see great thoughts of great minds in their great writings, great poetry, great sonnets, great Haikus and a variety of other great contributions by great men / women here at Blogitsville... all of which could make for great books. Don't we all feel so, dear blogiteers?... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, October 29, 2019

A Grandiose Ceremonial Slander

Dryden's Mac Flecknoe (written 1678, published 1682) was the result of a literary and personal quarrel between Dryden and Thomas Shadwell, a minor playwright. The poem is full of allusions to literary figures, plays, poems and publishers. Mac Flecknoeis a mock-heroic satire. This is literary a mode... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, October 26, 2019

The Story of a Foundling

Fielding's Tom Jones is the story of a foundling whom Nature has endowed with physical beauty and happy vitality. But the young Tom did not always act rightly, so that he seems to be something like an unheroic hero. He acts on impulse, sometimes well, sometimes ill, and he lacks a settled kind of... 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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