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Thursday, May 9, 2019

Alexander Pope's An Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot

Pope’s An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot was written originally as a tribute to his physician friend Dr Arbuthnot. It was, as Pope said, a Bill of Complaint” against those who had attacked “not only my writings …, to my Person, Moral and my Family”. But the range of the poem is far wider than mere... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, May 7, 2019

A Sunlit bath

Woken up by thunder steep as I was in a slumber deep Heard someone shouting, Wake up, look … a guest is waiting! Dead in the night groggy I was, went back to my treasured cause. But sleep came not that night; thoughts knocking as in a fight Getting up, opened the door, saw none out there waiting;... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, May 6, 2019

Grading Success to Discovering Oneself

If you are asked to define what success is, you will fall into great difficulty. Because success, to different people, have different connotations altogether. To the ambitious, no success is good enough, whereas to a man of unhurried temperament, withdrawn and non-energetic, satisfied as he is in... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, April 21, 2019

If you understand God's poetry, you have understood Religion.

God is the perfect poet who, in his person acts his own creations. - Robert Browning God is not a utilitarian. He simply does not believe in utility. He believes in play. It may sound somewhat ridiculous to us, because we are a serious people. God, with all His workload, cannot but be serious. How... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, April 18, 2019

Unfulfilled Love; Its Mystery and Tragedy

Tennyson’s “The Lady of Shalott” is a ballad based on the episode of the Arthurian legend centreing 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 on the world... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, April 12, 2019

How to master mind and be the real monarch

The mind is invariably the dominatrix in a sadomasochistic relationship with the body and the intellect. It uses the body as an instrument to fulfill its desires, and the body helplessly follows to do her bidding. It being naturally impure, a lot of effort in purification is required to be done that... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, April 2, 2019

About Religion and Spirituality

The range and dimensions of spirituality and religion are not the same. Spirituality is about liberation, and religion, as it is understood and practiced, is about control. At the lowest level religions tend to control through ignorance and blind belief. They do not wish to be questioned, because... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, March 31, 2019

Wordsworth's Endearing Tribute to his wife

She was a phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight A lovely Apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament; Her eyes as stars of Twilight fair Like Twilight's too, her dusky hair; Wordsworth’s poem “ She was a Phantom of Delight ” is a tribute to his wife Mary Hutchinson who was his... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, March 20, 2019

Lustrous Partnership Eternal

A consortium of stars I saw as if making love squillions of miles Up there in the skies, thrilled, shimmering, and with twinkling smiles Suddenly with a strange melancholy was I gripped; they only Seemed to be but were not, not near like Jocastas and Creons But distanced, such as imaginable in time... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, March 10, 2019

The Rape of the Lock as a Delightful mock-epic

Pope wrote The Rape of the Lock on a request from his friend John Caryll to help heal a rift between two Catholic families of prominence of the early eighteenth century London. It all started with Lord Petre’s amorous prank of cutting off of a lock of hair of a London society beauty, Miss Arabella... 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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