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/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...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/ABanerjeeSpeaks/996418Shakespeare ’s King Lear is founded on a childish incident where an old king decides to give away his kingdom to the child who professes to love him most. And this primitive groundwork is matched by the primitiveness of its people and the world in which they live. Here is a picture of a remote...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/ABanerjeeSpeaks/996374Just as the dying breath of a good man is silent and imperceptible, so should no violent sorrow show the world how much they loved; thus John Donne wishes in his poem A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning, one of his finest of metaphysical poetries. The mysterious indefinable love for his beloved,...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/ABanerjeeSpeaks/996211John Donne 's " The Sunne Rising " (published 1633), is one of his classic poems on love's charm, set in the speaker's bedroom. Here, he, in a rhetorical manner, apostrophises, that is, addresses, the sun. Both he and his lover lay in bed presumably after a night of romantic passion, oblivious of...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/ABanerjeeSpeaks/996180Forest 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...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/ABanerjeeSpeaks/996167In Aeschylus’ Eumenides, soon after the murder of Clytemnestra by her son Orestes he, plagued by the Furies, seeks sanctuary at the temple Apollo in Delphi. The Pythian high priestess (Pythia is the priestess of Apollo at Delphi who delivers the oracles of Apollo. Pytho was the mythical older...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/ABanerjeeSpeaks/996131While mourning at Agamemnon’s tomb, Orestes swore to avenge his father’s murder and with his sister Electra, worked out a plan for killing Aegisthus and Clytemnestra. Orestes and his friend Pylades, disguised, appear at the door of the palace and ask to see Clytemnestra. She comes out to greet...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/ABanerjeeSpeaks/996099Excuse my verbosity, it runs to almost 800 words. In Aeschylus’ Eumenides (The transformed Furies) soon after the murder of Clytemnestra by her son Orestes he, plagued by the Furies, seeks aid at the temple Apollo in Delphi. The Pythian high priestess (Pythia is the priestess of Apollo at Delphi...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/ABanerjeeSpeaks/996079The Choëphoroe, or Libation-Bearers, is the second play of the trilogy - Agamemnon, Choëphoroe, Eumenides. The first gives the murder of Agamemnon by his wife Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthus, son of Thyestes and his daughter Pelopia (Sidelight: Pelopia had discovered that it was her father...