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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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Friday, August 2, 2013

The Silence of Reconciliation - The Photograph

The cardboard shows me how it was when the two girl cousins went paddling, each one holding one of my mother's hands, and she the big girl-some twelve years or so. all three stood still to smile through their hair at the uncle with the camera. A sweet face, my mothers' that was before I was born.... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Two diametrically opposed roads can lead into one

In Graham Greene's The Power and the Glory (1940) the central issue is the antithesis between religion and materialism in Mexico. The two views are embodied by the priest and the lieutenant of police whose names are not given. The lieutenant is like the priest in his zeal, but for the secular order.... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, February 16, 2013

Sin and Sanctity as reflected in the manner of one's Life and Death

The story of Graham Greene's "The Power and the Glory" has it's origin in the 1930's when the Mexican government sought to suppress and destroy the influence of the Catholic Church as it felt that feudalalism which prevailed for centuries there resulted in the concentration of power and riches among... 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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