The Effulgence Within

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Wednesday, July 15, 2026

The World of Silence

Here'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... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, July 14, 2026

St Cecelia’s Day - An Estimate

Saint 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 Macedon,... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, July 12, 2026

Rosalind as Heroine of A$ 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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Saturday, July 11, 2026

A Miserable Soul Longing for a Touch of Friendship

T.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 –... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, July 5, 2026

Unchristened and the Pagan Nature of Britain in King Lear’s Time

Shakespeare ’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 and... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, July 3, 2026

Why Should the Dying Breath of a Good Man be Silent

Just 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,... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, June 26, 2026

Busy Old Fool, Unruly Sun, Shine on Us and Thou Art Everywhere

John 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... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, June 24, 2026

What does the Forest of Arden teach in As You Like It

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 tyranny... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, June 23, 2026

Sanity of Justice and Order Descends Upon Mycenae. (Part VII)

In 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 name... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, June 21, 2026

Whose Guilt is More Serious … Orestes’ or Clytemnestra’s, the Furies Pursue

While 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 them.... 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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