The Effulgence Within

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Monday, November 20, 2023

Glamis thou art, and Cawdor; and shalt be what thou art promised

ACT I, Scene V, begins at the Inverness, Macbeth's palace, with Lady Macbeth entering the stage, alone, reading a letter she has received from Macbeth, while still on his way home returning victorious from the battlefield, informing her the news of his strange meeting with the three Witches and of... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, November 16, 2023

Tennyson: Since Death is the End of Life, Why should Life all Labour Be?

The long-drawn ten years’ war in Troy has ended. The ship of Odysseus (that is, Ulysses) sets sail for homeward journey. The mariners sight land. A few of them go to explore the region. The air, languid, all quiet reigned. The streams seemed slumberous in movement. It was a land where nothing... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, November 10, 2023

Joy can Make One to Break into Pieces

Did you know that whenever the heart breaks out in sheer delight, these moments I'm sure you must have experienced at times, when you are really joyful, when joy is at its pinnacle, then joy becomes unbearable. It may even, ironically, produce pain - as in Keats' Nightingale Ode - "It is not through... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, November 4, 2023

What is Wordsworth’s The Lucy Mystery

Of the five Lucy poems composed by Wordsworth between 1798 and 1801, four were printed in Lyrical Ballads of 1800. These four poems, all in the lyrical vein, are sober meditations on the death or apprehension of death of a girl who was the object of a deep and tender love. The love is not... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, November 2, 2023

Kindness that kept a Shell of a Man Alive

Wordsworth’s poem “ The Old Cumberland Beggar ” was composed in 1798 and published in Lyrical Ballads (1800 edition). It is a touching narrative of kindness keeping a shell of a man alive; while also an exhortation against the legislative measures to get beggars into poorhouses. Scoffing at the... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, October 31, 2023

Doubt your doubts and become original from the fake

Seeded in doubt we remain which is always about The good and never about the bad, and none a non-devout! When I am happy it’s too good to be true; come bad But do I ever ask am I unhappy, am I really sad? Happiness, the stranger that rarely visits human soil Joy and bliss! Oh, they're plain words of... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, October 27, 2023

The Angelic Nobility of Mary Hutchinson’s Soul

Wordsworth’s poem “ She was a Phantom of Delight ” is a tribute to his wife Mary Hutchinson who was his cousin and, while a girl, had been his schoolmate. They both were born in 1770 and were united in marriage in 1802. Mary Hutchinson appeared to him, in their childhood, as a delightful though... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, October 24, 2023

The Other Dimension of Love

I was absolutely delighted to find the sense of ecstasy in one of John Donne’s poem by the same title. It is, he explains, the realization through a temporary disassociation of the soul from the body and what all happens thereafter that ecstasy descends. Their bodies are the spheres in which their... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, October 15, 2023

The Criminal in Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations Needed No Redemption

In Magwitch’s own words ‘in and out of jail’ aptly sums up his entire life story. An orphan who has no notion where he was born, his first memory is of stealing turnips for a living. Since then, he can remember a series of persecutions: jails, being put out of town, being put in the stocks and... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, October 11, 2023

The Gains in Unwearied Pursuit of Classical Learnings.

A company of a grammarian's pupils are bearing their master's coffin for burial at the summit of a mountain. One of them tells his story and dilates on the praises of the departed scholar. They cannot fittingly bury their master on the plain with the common folk. He shall rest on a peak whose height... 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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