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Saturday, October 19, 2019

A Hymn in Honour of Death

The Garden of Proserpine’ by Algernon Charles Swinburne (published in his collection of Poems and Ballads in 1866), is an exquisite poem based on a tale of Greek mythology. Proserpine (the Latin spelling of Persephone) is the daughter of Ceres and the wife of Pluto, the ruler of the underworld. She... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, October 7, 2019

The Rain Of Benevolence does not rain on all alike

Knowing can be of two types. There is one kind of knowledge that is rote, memorized; the other is a live-knowing, known from your lived experiences. No memory is required here. Then what you know is true, authentic knowledge. In the former kind, knowledge is a burden, in which there is every... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, October 6, 2019

David sees Bath-sheba bathing and ...

David, the slayer of Goliath, became a great king of Israel. Both God and man had sanctioned his kingship and placed much authority in his hands. But, amidst all his strength, David was weak and an easy prey of temptation. On a certain evening he was walking on the roof of the royal palace when he... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, October 2, 2019

Religion can neither be Bodiless nor Soulless

Science and Religion, both have a role to play in equal measure in the lives of humankind. One cannot exist without the other. Science can give you a better body, better health, longevity; it can give you more comforts, all the luxuries of life possible to be bought with money. One can buy a... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, September 29, 2019

We must find our Holy Grail (A Repeat)

(A most difficult ‘fragmented’ poem to analyze). Thomas Stearns Eliot, a 1948 Nobel Laureate, well known for his ground-breaking 20th century poetry of dense and allusion-heavy poems, especially so The Waste Land, is also the most widely talked about poets of literary history. For Eliot, the... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, September 24, 2019

Coleridge’s Innovative Ballad Style In the Ancient Mariner

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, September 15, 2019

A tale of a Moving Cry of Despair

Many of the English hymnodist William Cowper’s poems are a mental record of his mood swings of severe depression. He yearned that his torrid love affair with his first cousin Theodora be culminated in marriage. It could not, because of his father’s strong opposition to an unsociable alliance. This... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, September 14, 2019

Lost in Listless Lotos-Lands

Gone was I, away to the lotos-lands distant Far away, not in the moment, not in the instant No inspiration, no motivation, no cheer, no liveliness Only non-stimulation, lax in laxity, in flux-cum-unfixity Hinged - not falling not rising; ice-like — neither water nor vapor — Vacuous, lacking in... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, September 4, 2019

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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Thursday, August 29, 2019

Nothing Excels the Beauty of Genuine Sympathy

The greatness of Thomas Gray’s Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard (tap on the title to read, if you wish) has never been doubted. The poem is a chain of melancholy musings on the obscure lot of the humble village folk who lie buried at Stoke Poges in Buckinghamshire. It reveals much of Gray’s... 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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