The Effulgence Within

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Saturday, January 1, 2022

Cleopatra’s greatness is not in the manner of her living, but in her dying.

( Since you all liked the new year love story, I thought of adding another aspect on the greatness of the 'vile' woman Cleopatra ). Shakespeare loved to show his heroes with flaws and doubts and unheroic impulses, and heroines whose chastity was at war with their carnality. The play is the story of... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, December 31, 2021

Is Antony Love’s Pilgrim or Love’s Martyr

(Thought I’ll start the New Year with a wild love ❤ ️ story. A Very Happy and Prosperous New Year to all my dear Blogit friends). The impression left us at the close of Shakespeare’s play Antony and Cleopatra can scarcely be called purely tragic. The feeling of reconciliation, which mingles with the... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, December 21, 2021

The Modern Prometheus

Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is an 1818 novel written by English author Mary Shelley, wife of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Frankenstein tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who creates a sapient creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment. The creator, Victor... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, December 20, 2021

Man’s inescapable relationship with God

The Pulley, is an exquisite and disarmingly simple ( intricate though in its use of similes, metaphors and conceits ), poem by George Herbert, a 17th century poet who died young, at forty, in 1633. He has been rightfully called the saint of the Metaphysical school. His poem, The Pulley, is a... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, December 16, 2021

The Music of the Heart reverberates long after it is gone

The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more." ( The Solitary Reaper ) In the course of one of his walking tours, Wordsworth once saw a Scottish Highland girl reaping and singing all alone in a field. Her song, which had a melancholy ring, filled the entire valley, and the poet was... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, December 8, 2021

Clytemnestra Kills her husband Agamemnon

Aeschylus’ Agamemnon is the story of a hereditary blood-feud. It deals with only the middle phase in the gruesome happenings which span three generations. In the opening scene Agamemnon returns to his kingdom in triumph after the fall of Troy. Already Clytemnestra had shown her masculine efficiency... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, December 6, 2021

House of Atreus (A Fantastic Greek Tragedy into the beginnings of Religion)

( Aeschylus ’ “The Orestia” is a tale of gore; technically a tragedy but it does not end purely in hopelessness but on an upbeat note. The modern readers may be surprised because in ancient Athens the term “tragedy” did not carry its modern meaning and many of the tragedies do end on a positive... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, December 3, 2021

A Study in Comic Self-Deception

Emma Woodhouse, the daughter of a rich country gentleman, is a beautiful, clever, snobbish young lady of twenty-one. She is the heroine of Jane Austen's Emma. Emma's fanciful mind, encouraged by ample leisure and a little willfulness, leads her to indulge in match-making. The novel is a study in... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, November 22, 2021

Different Varieties of the Lyric Family

The term “Lyric” is often applied to all classes of poetry which is neither narrative nor dramatic. The earliest lyric required the accompaniment of the lyre, and throughout its history the lyric has retained in varying degrees the qualities of song. Certainly, many beautiful lyrics cannot be set to... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, November 15, 2021

Alexander’s Feast: The Power of Music

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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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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