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Monday, November 5, 2012

O grave, keep shut lest I be shamed ...

The Poet Laureate from Herefordshire County in western England, John Masefield lost his mother at six years of age who died while giving birth to his sister. This heartrending experience at an impressionable age left an indelible mark of sorrow on his soul which he found almost impossible to... Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, November 1, 2012

Abridged Happiness and Extended Suffering

It is the austere language of a diffident man, Hardy, marked with stoical fortitude, patient and uncomplaining, that his poem, “I Look into My Glass”, has an indelibly immediate appeal on the readers’ mind, in his teaching man to face up to Time unflinchingly. Time, with its power, brings... Sign in to see full entry.

Tuesday, October 30, 2012

I taste a liquor never brewed

Emily Dickinson’s “I taste a liquor never brewed” is a symbolic statement on the source of poetic inspiration and the nature of poetic feeling and thought. The poet begins by saying that she tastes a liquor and is becoming intoxicated. The liquor is not any particular kind of brew, as is the product... Sign in to see full entry.

Saturday, October 27, 2012

The Question Mark left behind Life, Death and Immortality

Emily Dickinson’s “Because I could not stop for Death” is a puzzling poem due to its symbolic and ambiguous nature. The poem centers upon her obsessive theme of Life, Death and Immortality. In the first stanza Death comes in a vehicle accompanied by Immortality. Death is kindly, thereby ironically... Sign in to see full entry.

Sunday, October 21, 2012

Symbolic Significance of Hawthorne's Title The House of the Seven Gables

In The House of the Seven Gables Hawthorne, from the start, describes the House of the Seven Gables as if it were human. He says: “The aspect of the venerable mansion has always affected me like a human countenance, --- expressions of the long lapse of mortal life”. Personification in later... Sign in to see full entry.

Tuesday, October 16, 2012

The House of the Seven Gables

The theme of Hawthorne’s novel The House of the Seven Gables is that the sins of the fathers are passed on to the children in succeeding generations. The seven gables are symbolic representations of the seven deadly sins. The old colonial Pyncheon House in Salem, Massachusetts with its seven gables... Sign in to see full entry.

Sunday, October 14, 2012

Why Modern Tragedies Lack the Splendor of Ancient Greek Tragedy?

Critics are in general agreement that Tennessee Williams’ play The Glass Menagerie falls short of Tragedy. The characters of the play lack the stature of the older tragic heroes, and their values and aims in life also are not as worthy or exalted. All the four characters – mother Amanda Wingfield,... Sign in to see full entry.

Saturday, October 13, 2012

Emerson’s Self-Reliance and its Relation to Society and Tradition

Individualism, which is a recurring theme of Emerson, finds its most elaborate exposition in his essay, “Self-Reliance”. “Self-Reliance”, his key doctrine, is contained in the first Epigraph “Do not seek yourself outside yourself”, and is also expressed more succinctly in “Trust yourself”. To... Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, October 3, 2012

Exploration of the Self

Directed by the body of the mind Forgetting all sane, good teachings behind Our sense organs again and again follow Helplessly, committing sins after sins shallow Manifestations of our boggy innards Tendencies - those craggy cowards Generations of wombs violent Sired by consciousness somnolent... Sign in to see full entry.

Monday, October 1, 2012

Greek Tragedy: Chatacter of Creon in Sophocles' Antigone

Polynices, Greek for “manifold strife” the son of Oedipus and Jocasta, was born of an incestuous relationship between Oedipus and his mother. Jocasta was the wife of king Laius whom also Oedipus had earlier killed in a duel without knowing his relationship to either. Thus, grave sins are incurred by... 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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