https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/ABanerjeeSpeaks/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? hourly12000-01-01T12:00+00:00https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/ABanerjeeSpeaks/997476No worst, there is none. Pitched past pitch of grief, More pangs will, schooled at forepangs, wilder wring. Comforter, where, where is your comforting? Mary, mother of us, where is your relief? My cries heave, herds-long; huddle in a main, a chief Woe, wórld-sorrow; on an áge-old anvil wince and...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/ABanerjeeSpeaks/997387This is one of my earlier posts somewhat redone. Published in 1924 and one of his best-known poems, Pablo Neruda’s " Ah Vastness of Pines" is both sensuous and boldly metaphorical. The poem opens with his intensely felt attraction of the moment caught up by the senses of the sight and sound. It...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/ABanerjeeSpeaks/997326Wilfred Owen’s Strange Meeting is a protest, not simply against war but against the glamorizing of war. If we think of it as a dream, it is founded on actual incidents of soldiers whom the poet saw die in the tunneled dug-outs. Escaping into a “profound dull tunnel” the poet comes on “encumbered...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/ABanerjeeSpeaks/997292The poem “Sweetest love, I do not go” is one from Donne’s Songs and Sonnets, published posthumously in 1633, wherein he playfully consoles his lover before he is about to depart on a journey as a matter of duty, but not because he is tired of their relationship. It is not any pressing engagement,...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/ABanerjeeSpeaks/996669An essay by the above title was first published in 1823 in Charles Lamb’s (1775-1834). Lamb here mocks in a pseudo serious tone and in an argumentative style. As a single man argues Lamb, he separates himself from the married people and talks about them in a despicable and offensive manner and...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/ABanerjeeSpeaks/996648In I’m Working On The World, Wislawa Szymborska, the 1996 Polish Nobel laureate addresses her role as a poet and the contribution that every single individual should, in his own right, strive to offer in creativity. She, on her part, will “feature fun for fools” (light elevating entertainment),...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/ABanerjeeSpeaks/996608Here's a poem by the Chilean Nobel Prize laureate in Literature 1971, Pablo Neruda, which I read time ago and the poem has an uncanny similarity with the one I posted earlier by a Polish lady Wislawa Szymborska, another Nobel Laureate in Literature 1996, I am now tempted to do a comparison and...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/ABanerjeeSpeaks/996592Saint Cecilia, a Roman Virgin and martyr (230 A D) is technically the patron saint of music and the inventor of the organ. Dryden’s poem Alexander’s Feast is written in celebration of St. Cecilia ’s Day on 22 nd November 1697. The poem opens with Alexander the Great, son of Philip, king of...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/ABanerjeeSpeaks/996528Rosalind 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...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/ABanerjeeSpeaks/996526T.S. Eliot’s poem Portrait of a Lady (composed 1910) is a descriptive monologue concerned with the meetings between a middle-aged society lady and a much younger man during a course spanning ten months. It was suggested by the poet’s visit to one Miss Adelaine Moffat, a well-known Boston hostess...