Sunday, January 4, 2009
Critical Appreciation of Keats' Ode to Psyche
Psyche was not a goddess of primitive Greek myth, but was a creation of Apuleius in second century A.D. The ode begins by directly addressing Psyche. Keats is inspired by the dear remembrance of his vision of Cupid and Psyche, couched in embrace in a green recess. Their readiness to outnumber past...
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Saturday, January 3, 2009
The World of Silence
( Here's a poem by the Chilean Nobel Prize laureate in Literature 1971, Pablo Neruda, which I read today, and has an uncanny similarity with the one I posted yesterday, by a Polish lady Wislawa Szymborska, another Nobel Laureate in Literature 1996, I am now tempted to do a comparison and contrast )....
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Thursday, January 1, 2009
A Dream Reality ...!
The opening line, “ Memory’s finally found what it was after ”, of the 1996 Literature Nobel Laureate, Wislawa Szymborska’s poem Memory Finally, clearly speaks of a dream sequence which the poet records as vividly as she had seen, and it springs from an inveterate desire of her seeking – that of...
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Tuesday, December 30, 2008
Go Past Heaven and Hell: Live with Awareness
THE OTHER day I was talking about the distinction in religion and spirituality. Spirituality is about liberation, and religion, as it is understood and practiced, is about control. At the lowest level, religions tend to control through ignorance and blind belief. They do not wish to be questioned,...
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Monday, December 29, 2008
True Repentance is a Defeat to Be Rejoiced
Rabindranath Tagore, a nobel laureate and one of India's greatest of poets, once wrote, "Last night I dreamt that I was the same boy that I had been before my mother died. She sat in a room in a garden house on the bank of the Ganges. I carelessly passed by without paying attention to her, when all...
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Sunday, December 28, 2008
Of Existence and Joy
ONE COMMON experience of all mankind is that joy rejuvenates, joy recharges our batteries. Anything that is integral and of which we are an undivided part, on being able even to accidentally touch, or be connected to the very source, our core, gives us joy. If we argue that we exist as part of...
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Friday, December 26, 2008
Lyrics that take us from the “Slough of Despond” to Buoyant Hope (A Repost)
One of the finest of Shelley’s poems is the Ode to the West Wind. Shelley was walking by the Arno in the wood among fallen leaves and saw massed clouds rising from the south-west to usher in the yearly storm with which the autumnal rains begin in October in Italy. The tempestuous motion of the trees...
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Wednesday, December 24, 2008
Oneness: Cosmic Chemistry says that the Entire Cosmos is a Body
All things are joined together; nothing stands alone. The fact is that it cannot. So no matter how distant a star may be from us, when it changes, our heartbeats also change. And no matter how far away the sun may be, when it becomes very disturbed our blood circulation is also disturbed. Every...
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Monday, December 22, 2008
Poems are Monuments of the Soul’s Magnificence: 'Last Sonnet', by Keats
BRIGHT Star, would I were steadfast as thou art-- Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night, And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like Nature's patient sleepless Eremite, The moving waters at their priest-like task Of pure ablution round earth's human shores, Or gazing on the new soft-fallen mask...
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Saturday, December 20, 2008
The Journey of the Magi
Before reading, you may want to listen to this beautiful recitation: http://in.youtube.com/watch?v= b5Sk0LJ9ylk&feature=related Christmas theme is the subject matter of T.S. Eliot’s poem The Journey of the Magi. It starts with one of the three Magus’ narrating to us the story long after the event...
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