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Thursday, January 12, 2012

Shackled

Unable to write anything new, here's a redoing of one of my earlier poems. Kings, monarchs, my dear even emperors are all bound in unseen captivity! Exceptional conjurers they, the mystics, who have conquered their selves. Masters of their minds, Desires in whom no longer their elves are the real... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, January 8, 2012

Romantic Suicide or Suicidal Romance?

A while back, I finished reading Gustave Flaubert’s famous controversial novel, Madame Bovary. It struck me as an ingenuous work of art with a seminal depiction of the reality of the mid-nineteenth century French cultural mores and ethics. Published in 1857, after the novel was acquitted by the... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, January 5, 2012

Rosalind as the Heroine of As You Like It

Rosalind is a girl of beauty, a beauty which is combined with grace and dignity. It is the deep affection between Celia and Rosalind that keeps Rosalind at court. “Like Juno’s swans Still we went coupled and inseparable”. In the Forest of Arden she is able to give expression to her innate vivacity... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, January 3, 2012

Treatment of Love-Theme in As You Like It ... (II)

In As You Like It, love lives in many forms – in Orlando and Rosalind, Celia and Oliver, Silvius and Phoebe, Touchstone and Audrey. In the play, the lovers love one another at first sight. Dead shepherd, now I find thy saw of might Who ever lov’d that lov’d not at first sight It is the cry of Phoebe... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, January 2, 2012

As You Like It - Significance of the Forest of Arden

The Forest of Arden is set over against the envious court ruled by a tyrant. But it is no Elysium. It contains some unsociable characters. Corin's master is churlish, William iis a dolt and Audrey graceless. Its weather is not always sunny: it has a bitter winter. Even to the escapers from the... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, January 1, 2012

Give all you have this New Year

For a Breath of Ecstasy In Barter, a short poem well worth remembering, especially on the occasion of the beginning of a year, Sara Teasdale tells us that this world of ours has many lovely things, things so lovely and splendid that we should partake of them at any price (“ Buy it and never count... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, December 31, 2011

Praise of the Ancients against Modern Writers

Matthew Arnold was a renowned British poet and cultural critic. His essay “ The Choice of Subjects in Poetry ” is actually the Preface to his Poems (1853). It attests to the vigor of his artistic and ethical conscience and his adoption of a classical view of poetry. He begins explaining the reasons... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, December 29, 2011

Tragedy, unless Cathartic, is not Tragedy

The specific function of Tragedy, says Aristotle, is the purgation of the emotions of pity and fear, unhealthy conditions of the soul, by the excitation of those emotions. The term “purgation” (Catharsis) has been variously interpreted. Often it has been taken to mean a moral effect brought about by... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, December 23, 2011

The True Appeal of a Tragedy depends on Magnitude and Order of a Plot

(This is a repeat of one of my earlier writes). According to Aristotle, Tragedy is composed of (a) Plot, Character and Thought, which concern the object represented, (b) Diction and Melody, which concern the means of representation, and (c) Spectacle, which is related to the manner of... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, December 8, 2011

Beware (A Repost)

D uped I was, a victim of deceit the ersatz The handiwork of an impoverished soul; I knew him Hurt came to offer his sympathies But I sent him away with a polite Thank You. Some relations are best kept in abeyance Others, fit to be kept in the stables, tethered How is it that they end so soon Even... 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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