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Saturday, September 27, 2014

Galileo's Pointing a Religious Apochrypha

The twentieth century German dramatist Bartolt Brecht's play Life of Galileo is based on historical fact. Galileo (1564 - 1642) was a great Italian physicist and astronomer whose investigations in the field of astronomy brought him in the attention of the Inquisition, a tribunal concerned with the... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, September 25, 2014

Thou Foster-Child of Silence and Slow Time (A repeat of Keats' Grecian Urn)

John Keats has been regarded as one of the greatest of Romantic poets of the English Literature. Sadly, his works were not really appreciated during his time in the early nineteenth century and it is also sad that a poet of his caliber should have died at an unripe age of twenty-five. Among his... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, June 4, 2014

Pompous Language for Low Actions is the Perfection of the Mock-Epic

The Rape of the Lock portrays the fashionable world of the early eighteenth century London, and its title page describes it as a heroic-comical poem. Pope remarks that "the use of pompous language for low actions is the perfection of the mock-epic." The mock-heroic is singularly effective in... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, April 13, 2014

Orpheus and Eurydice. ( a repost)

The greatest musician ever on earth, Orpheus, played his lyre with such masterly hand Wild beasts tamed, rivers stopped in their flow, trees and mountains followed as his band Nymphs swarmed, utterly charmed, but to Eurydice was he committed in betrothal On the other hand, relentlessly chased by the... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, March 27, 2014

Harmony: The Seed of Universal Frama

Saint Cecelia, a Roman virgin and martyr (230 A.D.) was traditionally the patron saint of music and the inventor of the organ. The celebration of St. Cecelia's Day on 22nd November began in England in 1683. Dryden wrote the Song for performance with orchestra to rejoice the occasion, in 1687. In "A... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, March 8, 2014

William Collins' Personification Beautifully Used as a State of Mind

Collins's Ode to Eveninng (1746), is one of the finest of 18 th century Nature-poems beginning with an invocation to the goddess Eve (evening), and is a soft and intensely appealing picture of twilight and dusk. The spirit of the evening, Eve, is personofied as a Nymph, ‘a maid composed’, who is... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, February 15, 2014

Dryden makes a Poetic Mincemeat of Shadwell

Dryden's Mac Flecknoe was written in 1678 and published in 1682. The title of the poem was the result of a literary and personal quarrel between Dryden and Thomas Shadwell, a minor playwright. The play is full of allusions to literary figures, plays, poems and publishers. Mac Flecknoe is a... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, November 27, 2013

Vedanta: Science of Religion

By the word Vedānta is meant the end of all knowledge. The Sanskrit word Vedānta breaks in two: Veda, the knowable; and anta, the end. Vedānta recognizes two worlds of human investigation - the external and the internal. The external world is what is revealed to us by the five senses. Today,... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, October 19, 2013

Forster's A Passage to India

Forster's A Passage to India is more than a fictional travelogue. Here he is primarily concerned with matters of human conduct and especially with the dark places in the human heart which make for confusion and unhappiness not only between individuals but between races and nations. Yet, Forster's... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, September 15, 2013

Bacon, the great essayist

There is, indeed, an unimaginable treasure-house of liberating tastes, fragrances to be appreciated, savored, adopted, and to take delight from, the exemplary styles of the great masters who unfortunately, are rarely taught in educational institutions these days. It is criminal to let go such... 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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