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/995411Coleridge’s Christabel, Part I depicts a conflict between some joined of evil, mysterious and erotic, embedded in Geraldine, and Christabel ’s goodness and religious grace. With regard to Geraldine’s appearance, the emphasis throughout is in her external beauty.From the first attention is called...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/ABanerjeeSpeaks/995365The protagonist of Shakespeare’s play, King Lear, accustomed to flattery and absolute power, is founded on a childish incident where an aging king decides to give away his kingdom to the daughter who professes to love him most. And this primitive groundwork is matched by the primitiveness of its...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/ABanerjeeSpeaks/995113The unhappy ending of King Lear has been condemned on the ground of poetic justice. In great tragedies as in life, there is no poetic justice. Since Lear is a man more sinned against than sinning, in 1680 Nahum Tate, a minor dramatist, gives Shakespeare a happy ending. Edgar is made from the...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/ABanerjeeSpeaks/995044Shelley’s utopian order is sketched pretty elaborately in Queen Mab, The Revolt of Islam and most important of all, Prometheus Unbound, besides numerous references to it in his prose tracts and the prefaces and notes to his poems. In Queen Mab, Shelley’s first important exposition of the ideal...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/ABanerjeeSpeaks/995019Utopia, the vision of an ideal state, whether fanciful, imaginative or even logical, has allured the human mind since time immemorial. Since Plato’s The Republic, the first systematic speculation of the utopian kind, there has been a rich crop of utopian literature, tending in two directions, of...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/ABanerjeeSpeaks/994917I’m already on way to getting better - regaining my strength, confidence, cheerfulness and the energy I thought was 😞 lost. But you readers who I have read only cursorily, I will now read, write and comment in a more involved way … and that gives me happiness. So, off I’m in my sweep as an early...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/ABanerjeeSpeaks/994877Two conjoint facts of perceptions are that we can never rid ourselves of the commingling of the opposites - things which bring us pain also bring pleasure. The burning pain in the eye is intermitted by flashes of respite; the very streak of intermittent lightning flashing through the dark sky...https://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...