Three men wise from the east Pilgrims, on camel-backs journeyed - “A cold coming they had of it” To Bethlehem, through snowy peaks To witness the birthing of Christ, And of their new faith. On way to the land of their Nativity They pass “three trees on a low sky” Presage of the three crosses on the... Sign in to see full entry.
Thomas Mann's Death in Venice (1912) is a short novel wherein perverted love, decay and death result from a breakdown of traditional morals of a celebrated middle-aged writer Aschenbach belonging to Munich. A dedicated artist with strong moral attitudes, Ascenbach proceeds on a holiday to Venice. In... Sign in to see full entry.
Although the background of Shaw's Pygmalion is phonetics, its basic theme is human relations. Pygmalion, in classical Greek mythology, was a legendary king of Cyprus, who, having fashioned an ivory statue of a woman, fell in love with it. The goddess Aphrodite (Venus) gave it life and Pygmalion... Sign in to see full entry.
The starry night's twinkling towers And the daylight's dancing hours The birds and trees and the skies and flowers The heavenly rains of sweet monsoon showers O Ecstasy, you sovereign almighty Empress Pure, and in the image of perfect gladness Without the tinge of any gloomy sadness Nature's... Sign in to see full entry.
Pirandello's play, Six Characters in Search of an Author, is concerned with the tragic sorrows of humanity and with the relation between Art and Life. Six Characters (Father, Mother and four children) appear before a troupe of professional Actors, state that they are incomplete creations of an... Sign in to see full entry.
Very sweetly UKUSA writes, " By tomorrow, we need another post, dear Blogit Villager. Slacking off, R u?" T he Theatre of the Absurd gained much popularity as a medium of dramatic expression, although indistinct in its conveyance but one of relief all right, of the inner conflicts of Man to which he... Sign in to see full entry.
Born in 1914, Dylan Marlais Thomas was an archetypal romantic poet - a heavy drunkard, a flamboyantly roaring debater - he read out his poems aloud in public and with such tremendous depth of feeling, singing in his Welsh lilt, that the style caught the American imagination with storm. One of Dylan... Sign in to see full entry.
A classical dramatic literature, Anton Chekov’s The Cherry Orchard serves as a fluid and complex symbol that has different meanings with different classes of people and also with the changing times. At one time when the cherry orchard was in bloom and laden with fruits, it was a source of great... Sign in to see full entry.
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.
In 1919, the British auxiliaries along with the notorious Black and Tans, committed severe atrocities on the Irish nationalists, prompting the Irish playwright and poet William Butler Yeats, to write a poem with the same title, Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen. Taking his examples of destructive... Sign in to see full entry.