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/994832Glory be to God for dappled things – For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow; For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim; Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches’ wings; Landscape plotted and pieced – fold, fallow, and plough; And áll trádes, their gear and tackle and trim. All things...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/ABanerjeeSpeaks/994797In Frost at Midnight (1798), a conversation poem, Coleridge takes the instance of solitude to project his reflections to expand to his love of nature. Coleridge here explores the relationship between environment and happiness and also reflects on the idyllic innocence of childhood. Late one...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/ABanerjeeSpeaks/994740Wordsworth believed that it was to Nature that he owed most in the formation of his mind and character. The Prelude is actually his autobiography in verse, and Books I and II deals with Nature as nurse, guide and guardian to Wordsworth in his early years. Wordsworth points to three stages in...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/ABanerjeeSpeaks/994697Ghosts is a 1881 play by the Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. It was first staged in 1882 in Chicago, Illinois. Like many of Ibsen's writings, the play is a scathing commentary on 19th-century morality. The main theme of Ghosts is the extent to which society invades personal lives. Mrs. Alving,...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/ABanerjeeSpeaks/994672No 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/994619(I propose to give a short summary of this long novel by John Fowles - a classic 1969 writer - which has probably two or even three conclusions and mysteries abound. Here it goes —- The French Lieutenant’s Woman, as with each Chapter of thr novel, Chapter One begins with an epigraph. This first...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/ABanerjeeSpeaks/994547The Ancient Mariner is the story of a real-life sea voyage pervaded by a supernatural atmosphere. A couple, on way to attending a wedding, is suddenly stopped by an old mariner, and catching hold of the guest's hands, starts telling his mysterious sea voyage story. The stranger is naturally,...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/ABanerjeeSpeaks/994546The Ancient Mariner is the story of a real-life sea voyage pervaded by a supernatural atmosphere. A couple, on way to attending a wedding, is suddenly stopped by an old mariner, and catching hold of the guest's hands, starts telling his mysterious sea voyage story. The stranger is naturally,...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/ABanerjeeSpeaks/994451The Wise Children is a story about identical twin sisters, Dora and Nora, who built their careers as dancers and showgirls. The narrator of the novel is Dora and she begins the story with the day of their seventy-fifth birthday which is the present day in the plot of the novel. She talks about...