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Poetry for the Inner Ear: The Most Marvelous Thing
Poetry for the Inner Ear: The Most Marvelous Thing : The Most Marvelous Thing
10 Things Science Says Will Make You Happy by Jen Angel — YES! Magazine
10 Things Science Says Will Make You Happy by Jen Angel — YES! Magazine
NJ observes 10th anniversary of 9/11 attacks | 24x7 Updates
NJ observes 10th anniversary of 9/11 attacks 24x7 Updates
I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy. - J. D. Salinger
I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy. - J. D. Salinger
Those Winter Sundays by Robert Hayden : The Poetry Foundation
Those Winter Sundays by Robert Hayden : The Poetry Foundation
Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man h..... - Anais Nin
Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man h..... - Anais Nin
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in ..... - Oscar Wilde
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in ..... - Oscar Wilde
The Mind Canvas: The Dormant Masses
The Mind Canvas: The Dormant Masses : Illustrator: Dickie Gonzo Dickie Gonzo Music The Dormant Masses Embrace these tortured souls...
Hooked Bookworm: Decatur Book Festival Report.
Hooked Bookworm: Decatur Book Festival Report. : Hey everybody sorry I've been away from my computer for a while, but I've been at the Decatur Book Festival in Decatur, GA with my mother...
Changefulstorm Poetry: Tender Voices - Dec. 16, 2010
Changefulstorm Poetry: Tender Voices - Dec. 16, 2010 : Tender Voices The same tender voice in your thoughts, I can hear in mine Repeating claims which dust the wings of time However much they ...
Changefulstorm Poetry: Skies of Youth - Dec. 13, 2010
Changefulstorm Poetry: Skies of Youth - Dec. 13, 2010 : Skies of Youth You once again wore the skies of windy youth Held in the temple by our roaring sea Holding on to a call of truth For the g...
Changefulstorm Poetry: I Feel You as Soft Touches - Aug. 22, 2011
Changefulstorm Poetry: I Feel You as Soft Touches - Aug. 22, 2011 : Bedtime Stories by Tiago da Fonseca I Feel You as Soft Touches I want to see the thoughts you breathe, hear your words and collect them,...
Changefulstorm Poetry: Some Eyes Seek Beautiful Shadows - March 21, 2011
Changefulstorm Poetry: Some Eyes Seek Beautiful Shadows - March 21, 2011 : Some Eyes Seek Beautiful Shadows I know that some eyes seek beautiful shadows to follow What suffering highlighted by moonlight can do Ho...
Changefulstorm Poetry: All My Fault is Just a Pale Rose - March 25, 2011
Changefulstorm Poetry: All My Fault is Just a Pale Rose - March 25, 2011 : All My Fault is Just a Pale Rose All I can see is the truth when the tide rises as if wanting to be caught If there is anything that trea...
I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons...... - John Lennon
I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons...... - John Lennon
One day Alice came to a fork in the road and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree. "Which road do ..... - Lewis Carroll
One day Alice came to a fork in the road and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree. "Which road do ..... - Lewis Carroll
Poetry for the Inner Ear: Happiness is like a butterfly; the more you chase ...
Poetry for the Inner Ear: Happiness is like a butterfly; the more you chase ... : Happiness is like a butterfly; the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if y..... - Henry David Thoreau
Happiness is like a butterfly; the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if y..... - Henry David Thoreau
Happiness is like a butterfly; the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if y..... - Henry David Thoreau
New Year’s Day by Kim Addonizio : The Poetry Foundation
New Year’s Day by Kim Addonizio : The Poetry Foundation
World 55 Fiction: Love’s Flame
World 55 Fiction: Love’s Flame : "Inevitably, each moth he released from the jar found its way to the candle and met the same self-immolating fate. He would spend hours try..."
The Monkey's Paw by W. W. Jacobs - from the Short Story Library at American Literature
The Monkey's Paw by W. W. Jacobs - from the Short Story Library at American Literature
Changefulstorm Poetry: When I Am Away From You - July 27, 2011
Changefulstorm Poetry: When I Am Away From You - July 27, 2011 : "http://www.diary.ru/~IamSoLost/?from=60 When I Am Away From You A normal day, I think not, when I am away from you. This is when my hear..."
Poetry for the Inner Ear: William Blake's use of Symbols
Poetry for the Inner Ear: William Blake's use of Symbols : "Symbolism in poetry developed out of the Dada activities of World War I , and the most important center of the symbolist poets was Paris..."
William Blake's use of Symbols
Symbolism in poetry developed out of the Dada activities of World War I , and the most important center of the symbolist poets was Paris . Even before the modern age, the visionary poet Blake used symbols in his poetry. For example, in his lyric "The Lamb", we find that the lamb is a symbol of Christ: Little Lamb I'll tell thee, Little Lamb I'll tell thee: He is called by thy name, For he calls himself a Lamb: He is meek & he is mild, He became a little child: I a child & thou a lamb, We are called by his name. Little Lamb God bless thee. Little Lamb God bless thee. The lamb is an apt symbol for the Prince of Peace Jesus. The poet uses another symbol in the above lines. Jesus is like "a little child". Jesus is simple, humble, innocent and sinless like a child. William Blake himself remarked: " A symbol is the only possible expression of some invisible essence." From the 1920s on, the use of symbols spread around th
Poetry for the Inner Ear: New Inventive Language
Poetry for the Inner Ear: New Inventive Language : "All greatest poets, through poetic symbols (The French poets are leaders in such type of poetry), visionary trances and metaphors are succ..."
New Inventive Language
All greatest poets, through poetic symbols (The French poets are leaders in such type of poetry), visionary trances and metaphors are successful in confronting the inner and external realities. These poets reveal that poetry is more than common metaphor and analogies, and their poems reach deeper. We will not find in poems, which are full of monotonous dreams and vague fancies. Through a wise use of metaphor, the immortal poets are s capable to create ome extraordinary compositions revealing the bitter truth and realities of the new millennium. Dryden (1631-1700) pointed out: “There may be too great a likeness, as the most skilful painters affirm, that there may be too near a resemblance in a picture; to take every lineament and feature, is not to make an excellent piece; but to heighten the beauties of some part, and hide the deformities of the rest…the employment of a poet is like that of a curious gunsmith, or watchmaker; the iron or silver is not his own, but the
Poetry for the Inner Ear: "The Wisest, the Brightest and the Meanest of Mank...
Poetry for the Inner Ear: "The Wisest, the Brightest and the Meanest of Mank... : "Francis Bacon was not only one of the greatest writers, but also a great English statesman, philosopher and politician. The great classical..."
Poetry for the Inner Ear: Out-topping Knowledge
Poetry for the Inner Ear: Out-topping Knowledge : "Shakespeare is the greatest poet of the world. His most famous plays are Macbeth, King Lear, Hamlet, Julius Caesar, Othello, Romeo and Julie..."
Out-topping Knowledge
Shakespeare is the greatest poet of the world. His most famous plays are Macbeth, King Lear, Hamlet, Julius Caesar, Othello, Romeo and Juliet, Twelfth Night, As You Like It, The Comedy of Errors, Much Ado About Nothing, Richard II, The Winter’s Tale, Cymbeline . Ben Jonson admired him in the following lines: Soul of the age! The applause! delight! the wonder of our stage! My Shakespeare, rise; I will not lodge thee by Chaucer or Spenser, or bid Beaumont lie A little further to make thee a room. There is no doubt that Shakespeare is the greatest genius that human nature has yet produced. He was rightly called “our myriad-minded Shakespeare” by the famous critic S.T. Coleridge. Shakespeare was not of an age, but of all ages. For example, we may take the following immortal quotes by Shakespeare: How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable Seem to me all the uses of this world. Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar. There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than a
"The Wisest, the Brightest and the Meanest of Mankind"
Francis Bacon was not only one of the greatest writers, but also a great English statesman, philosopher and politician. The great classical poet Alexander Pope regarded him as “the wisest, the brightest and the meanest of mankind”. Bacon is the Father of English essay. His essays are famous for their wit and aphoristic style. Most of the lines from his essays have always been acclaimed as immortal quotes. For example, we may take the following lines that have become proverbs: Revenge is a kind of wild justice; which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out. Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses. In charity there is no excess. Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested : that is, some books are to be read only in parts,
Poetry for the Inner Ear: W. B. Yeats' Most Powerful Poem
Poetry for the Inner Ear: W. B. Yeats' Most Powerful Poem : "Michael Robartes and the Dancer is a remarkable book of poems by the Irish poet and Nobel Laureate William Butler Yeats . It includes ..."
W. B. Yeats' Most Powerful Poem
Michael Robartes and the Dancer is a remarkable book of poems by the Irish poet and Nobel Laureate William Butler Yeats . It includes the poems: Michael Robartes and the Dancer, Solomon and the Witch, An Image From A Past Life, Under Saturn, Easter, 1916 , The Second Coming, A Prayer for My Daughter, and several other poems. The Second Coming is one of the best poems by Yeats. The first stanza is one of the triumphs of poetry. He will not tolerate violence. The thought is sharp and clear in the following lines: Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. This poem has become the classic. The above lines fully reveal the brutality and barbarism nowadays confirmed by September 11 catastrophe and senseless terrorist attacks. Never again did a poet of t
Poetry for the Inner Ear: Leaves of Grass
Poetry for the Inner Ear: Leaves of Grass : "Many critics criticize Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass. The Boston Intelligencer condemned his poetry as full of “bombast, egotism, vulgarity..."
Poetry for the Inner Ear: Leaves of Grass
Poetry for the Inner Ear: Leaves of Grass : "Many critics criticize Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass. The Boston Intelligencer condemned his poetry as full of “bombast, egotism, vulgarity..."
Leaves of Grass
Many critics criticize Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass. The Boston Intelligencer condemned his poetry as full of “bombast, egotism, vulgarity and nonsense". A few critics wanted Whitman to be punished. He deserves “the lash for such a violation of decency”. It is beyond comprehension why some of the critics called Leaves of Grass a dirty book. We should remember that both R.W. Emerson and Thoreau admired his poetry. Thoreau aptly remarked: “He has spoken more truth than any American or modern that I know. I have found his poem exhilarating, encouraging.” Take for example the following lines: I know that the hand of God is the promise of my own, And I know that the spirit of God is the brother of my own, And that all the men ever born are also my brothers, and the women my sisters and lovers, And that a kelson of the creation is love. What a magnificent, sharp, noble and clear thought! The lines show a force of Whitman’s originality and spiritual observance. The beauties
Poetry for the Inner Ear: P.B. Shelley's Greatest Poetic Drama
Poetry for the Inner Ear: P.B. Shelley's Greatest Poetic Drama : "Prometheus Unbound is a four-act play by the greatest Romantic poet P. B. Shelley. The play opens a Ravine of Icy Rocks in the Indian Caucas..."
P.B. Shelley's Greatest Poetic Drama
Prometheus Unbound is a four-act play by the greatest Romantic poet P. B. Shelley. The play opens a Ravine of Icy Rocks in the Indian Caucasus. PROMETHEUS is discovered in chains bound to the Precipice. Prometheus is tormented by Zeus. Ultimately, Prometheus is liberated. He is a symbol of the liberation of mankind. He may be described as the correct manifestation of the highest moral and intellectual nature. He is often compared with Satan in Milton’s Paradise. But we should remember that he is devoid of any feeling of revenge or envy that we find in Satan. Shelley himself says: “Prometheus is, in my judgment, a more poetical character than Satan, because, in addition to courage, and majesty, and firm and patient opposition to omnipotent force, he is susceptible of being described as exempt from the taints of ambition, envy, revenge, and a desire for personal aggrandizement, which, in the hero of Paradise Lost, interfere with the interest.” This book reveals Shelley’s revolutiona
Prometheus Unbound
Prometheus Unbound is a four-act play by the greatest Romantic poet P. B. Shelley. The play opens a Ravine of Icy Rocks in the Indian Caucasus. PROMETHEUS is discovered in chains bound to the Precipice. Prometheus is tormented by Zeus. Ultimately, Prometheus is liberated. He is a symbol of the liberation of mankind. He may be described as the correct manifestation of the highest moral and intellectual nature. He is often compared with Satan in Milton’s Paradise. But we should remember that he is devoid of any feeling of revenge or envy that we find in Satan. Shelley himself says: “Prometheus is, in my judgment, a more poetical character than Satan, because, in addition to courage, and majesty, and firm and patient opposition to omnipotent force, he is susceptible of being described as exempt from the taints of ambition, envy, revenge, and a desire for personal aggrandizement, which, in the hero of Paradise Lost, interfere with the interest.” This book reveals Shelley’s revolutiona
Poetry for the Inner Ear: Good Health is the Greatest Blessing
Poetry for the Inner Ear: Good Health is the Greatest Blessing : "US President Thomas Jefferson once remarked: “Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I wi..."
Good Health is the Greatest Blessing
US President Thomas Jefferson once remarked: “Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.” There is no greater blessing on earth than having good health free from all diseases like high blood pressure, obesity, heart attack, cancer, diabetes, and several other diseases that are nowadays afflicting a large number of people across the world. Good health is shelters and rescues us from the increasing pressures and storms in life. Our life will be a little bit of paradise if we take care to keep good health. Anthony Robbins aptly remarks: "The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body. The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results." Regular exercise and balanced diet are very useful for our good health. Moreover, the following wise lines aptly reveal the indispensabl
Poetry for the Inner Ear: The Mayor of Casterbridge
Poetry for the Inner Ear: The Mayor of Casterbridge : "The Nobel Laureate Thomas Hardy’s immortal novel The Mayor of Casterbridge is subtitled 'The Life and Death of a Man of Character'. It is se..."
The Mayor of Casterbridge
The Nobel Laureate Thomas Hardy’s immortal novel The Mayor of Casterbridge is subtitled "The Life and Death of a Man of Character". It is set in the fictional town of Casterbridge. The novel seems to emphasize that “Character is destiny”. Henchard’s grave error of selling his wife and daughter to Newson works like hubris for him. He repents but the Furies and nemesis are preying upon him. He repents why he sold his wife and daughter: "If I had only got her with me—if I only had!," he said. "Hard work would be nothing to me then! But that was not to be. I—Cain—go alone as I deserve—an outcast and a vagabond." Henchard would never be happy again. The plot of Hardy’s novel is quite interesting. Henchard under the influence of wine sells his wife Susan and baby daughter Elizabeth-Jane to a sailor named Newson for five guineas. As he wakes up the next morning, he realizes his blunder, and pledges in a church that he won’t drink wine for the next twenty o
Poetry on the Peaks: Jesus and Buddha Deliver my Soul from the Wicked
Poetry on the Peaks: Jesus and Buddha Deliver my Soul from the Wicked : "Jesus and Buddha Deliver my Soul from the Wicked gleaming shape floats silent near calvary tree- subconscious vibration prayer piet..."
Poetry on the Peaks: There is none like Buddha
Poetry on the Peaks: There is none like Buddha : "There is none like Buddha Buddha's fervour four lions preach all directions- stupa in space majesty of light empty throne on top bodhi ..."
Poetry for the Inner Ear: Twelfth Night
Poetry for the Inner Ear: Twelfth Night : "“There are only three industries in this Shakespeare’s comedy: making love, making songs and making feasts and they make them all to perfect..." Bloggers Community
Twelfth Night
“There are only three industries in this Shakespeare’s comedy: making love, making songs and making feasts and they make them all to perfection” (Thorndike). Twelfth Night is the happiest comedy of Shakespeare. This highest achievement of the Bard of Avon has always been admired by both critics and audiences. The fact is that Twelfth Night or Epiphany is a festival of mirth and joy celebrated after twelve days of Christmas. The alternative title of the play “What You Will”. The play is the most delightful comedy of Shakespeare. Hazlitt aptly remarks about Twelfth Niight: "It is perhaps too good-natured for comedy. It has little satire and no spleen. It aims at the ludicrous rather than the ridiculous. It makes us laugh at the follies of mankind not despise them and still less bear any ill will towards them." The love of Viola is the sweetest and purest kind of love as seen in her following lines spoken to Duke Orsino. Duke. And what ’s her history? Vio. A blank, my
Poetry for the Inner Ear: The Eliad of Homer
Poetry for the Inner Ear: The Eliad of Homer : "The Eliad of Homer The Eliad written in 6th century BC is an epic poem by Homer, the blind bard. Singing bards were often blind in ancien..."
The Eliad of Homer
The Eliad of Homer The Eliad written in 6th century BC is an epic poem by Homer, the blind bard. Singing bards were often blind in ancient Greece. The 24 books of the Eliad have over 15,000 lines about the battles between King Agamemnon and Achilles. In the Trojan war we find that the Greek gods like Zeus and Apollo, and goddesses also have a great role to play. The rhythm of Homer’s verses resembles that of the army he describes, Hoid’ ar’ isan hosei te puri chthon pasa nemoito. “They pour along like a fire that sweeps the whole earth before it.” Alexander Pope who translated this Greek epic into English aptly says: “This fire is discerned in Virgil, but discerned as through a glass, reflected from Homer, more shining than fierce, but everywhere equal and constant: in Lucan and Statius it bursts out in sudden, short, and interrupted flashes: In Milton it glows like a furnace kept up to an uncommon ardour by the force of art: in Shakespeare it strikes before we are aware
Poetry for the Inner Ear: War is the Business of Barbarians
Poetry for the Inner Ear: War is the Business of Barbarians : "No doubt, war is the science of destruction. This is confirmed by the recent Iraq war and the ceaseless violence in Libya. The First World W..."
War is the Business of Barbarians
No doubt, war is the science of destruction. This is confirmed by the recent Iraq war and the ceaseless violence in Libya. The First World War (1914-1918) was fought on a scale unprecedented in any previous century. The Battle of Verdun between France and Germany caused 700000 casualties. A total of about 40 million artillery shells were exchanged by both sides. The moral lesson is quite clear that the Great War was a blunder and a crime. It is high time that the great nations calmed down again and occupied themselves with peaceful pursuits, and destroyed all nuclear weapons. Wilfred Owen (1893-1918), the Soldier poet who was killed in World war I, reveals the futility of war in his immortal line: “Was it for this the clay grew tall?" Edward Grey remarked: “The lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime” (July 1914). The eastern battles the Great War were useless and stupid from the military point of view. The omino
Poetry for the Inner Ear: Thalassemia
Poetry for the Inner Ear: Thalassemia : "North America Thalassemia can be devastating for us. You are perhaps familiar with the fact that this dangerous disease leads to blood d..."
Thalassemia
North America Thalassemia can be devastating for us. You are perhaps familiar with the fact that this dangerous disease leads to blood disorder and anemia. As the bone marrow fails to produce the proteins that are indispensable for the hemoglobin. In this grim situation a person is tormented and afflicted with thalassemia. It is well-known that this disease is hereditary, and it is often due to cross marriages. Prevention is better than cure, and the most prudent step is to avoid marriage with persons suffering from this disease. Recently an important seminar about Thalassemia was held at Unpad Learning Hospital. Vice Governor of West Java and Thalassemia Ambassador, Dede Yusuf pointed out that West Java in Indonesia has a very large number of thalassemia patients. “Attention from various parties is required for early thalassemia screening and detection. Screenings should start in villages and campuses”. The consequences of this disease can be very severe. Th
Poetry for the Inner Ear: Pippa Middleton
Poetry for the Inner Ear: Pippa Middleton : "It is really very shocking that a few websites have shown the topless photo of Pippa Middleton, the famous little sister of Kate.. This is n..."
Poetry for the Inner Ear: Irreverent Criticism of John Keats
Poetry for the Inner Ear: Irreverent Criticism of John Keats : "negative capability, John Keats (1795-1821), one of the greatest Romantic poets who is often compared with Shakespeare due to his phrases ..."
Irreverent Criticism of John Keats
negative capability, John Keats (1795-1821), one of the greatest Romantic poets who is often compared with Shakespeare due to his phrases charged with a great intensity of imagination, was vehemently criticized by John Gibson Lockhart in Blackwoods Magazine: ““The phrenzy of the “Poems” was bad enough in its way; but it did not alarm us half so seriously as the calm, settled, imperturbable drivelling idiocy of Endymion.” This vituperative and utterly irreverent criticism was quite unjustified. We should not forget that Keats wrote some of the greatest odes, comparable to nothing except Shakespeare’s greatest poetry . One example is the concluding lines of Ode on a Grecian Urn” ‘Beauty is truth, truth beauty’ – that is all / you know on earth, and all ye need to know”. Keats is a Shakespearean poet due to his ‘negative capability’. Keats himself remarks about this ‘negative capability’: ” Several things dovetailed in my mind, and at once it struck me, what quality went to
Poetry for the Inner Ear: The Deepest Ever Written Book
Poetry for the Inner Ear: The Deepest Ever Written Book : "Nietzsche’s magnum opus Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for All and None has been described as “the deepest ever written”. This book by the e..." Follow on Buzz
The Deepest Ever Written Book
Nietzsche’s magnum opus Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for All and None has been described as “the deepest ever written”. This book by the esoteric German philosopher opposes the Christian and Jewish morals, values and traditions. It is quite ironical that Nietzsche mimics the Bible style while revealing his concept of ‘overman’ or superman through the prophet Zarathustra. One must have a chaos inside oneself to give birth to a dancing star. Of all that is written, I love only what a person hath written with his blood. Write with blood, and thou wilt find that blood is spirit "Nothing is true, all is permitted": so said I to myself. Into the coldest water did I plunge with head and heart. Ah, how oft did I stand there naked on that account, like a red crab! Ah, where have gone all my goodness and all my shame and all my belief in the good! Ah, where is the lying innocence which I once possessed, the innocence of the good and of their noble lies! Too oft, verily, did I f
Edmund Spenser's Pictorial Power
Bloggers Community Spenser’s masterpiece Fairy Queen is an exraordinary allegory. Dryden aptly remarks about Spenser: “ No man was ever born with a greater genius or more knowledge to support it”. He has been rightly described as the ‘poets’ poet’ as Shakespeare, Wordsworth, Shelley, Keats, Tennyson, the Pre-Raphaelites, and other numberless poets were immensely influenced by him. Spenser was able to finish only six books of the epic, though his aim was to write twelve books. Spenser’s ‘sweet melodious sound’ was admired even by Shakespeare. Wordsworth aptly described him “Sweet Spenser, moving, through his clouded heaven / With the moon’s beauty and moon’s soft pace”. Spenser was aware of twelve virtues described by Aristotle that are indispensable to make an ideal person. By what means is this attainable? This incredible task was done by Spenser in his timeless nd comprehesive creation Fairy Queen. He decided to write twelve books devoted to these ideal virtues. What a gre
Shakespeare's Comic Genius: The Merchant of Venice
Shakespeare’s tragicomedy The Merchant of Venice is one of his greatest plays. Shylock and Portia are immortal characters, and they seem to be real human beings of flesh and blood. Portia requests Shylock to show mercy in the following oft-quoted lines: ( "The quality of mercy is not strain'd, It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest: It blesseth him that gives and him that takes. ". Portia is the magnet of universal attraction. The Casket scene, the Trial scene and the Ring-episode reveal her clear vision and penetrative wisdom. The bond-story would have culminated in tragedy, if Portia had not intervened. Portia’s main argument in the trial scene is to show mercy toward Antonio. According to the contract, Shylock would extract the pound of flesh as the penalty in case of default. But Shylock refuses to show any mercy for Antonio. Portia clarifies that the bond only allows Shylock to remove the flesh , not the "b
Dante's Vision of the Paradise
The Divine Comedy by Dante is an immortal epic by Dante describing the poet’s journey through Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven. How to find Salvation? This is the main theme of this greatest epic written in Italian language. The truth is that this fascinating book is soul’s willing ascent toward the Almighty Lord. The poet in his journey toward heaven is accompanied by the great Roman poet Virgil, and Beatrice, the ideal woman. We find the following immortal gems of thought in Divine Comedy showing the deepest insights of Dante: All hope abandon, ye who enter here! Avarice, envy, pride, Three fatal sparks, have set the hearts of all On Fire. In the section Inferno, Dante reveals that the the people wth moral depravity lead the worst possible life: Their sighs, lamentations and loud wailings resounded through the starless air, so that at first it made me weep; Strange utterances, horrible pronouncements, words of pain, tones of anger, voices shrill and faint,
Poetry for the Inner Ear: Jane Austen's Comedy of Human Nature
Poetry for the Inner Ear: Jane Austen's Comedy of Human Nature : "The most famous novels by Jane Austen, one of the greatest novelists in the world of literature, are Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibi..."
Jane Austen's Comedy of Human Nature
The most famous novels by Jane Austen, one of the greatest novelists in the world of literature, are Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Northanger abbey, Mansfield Park, Emma, and Persuasion. Pride and Prejudice has always been my favorite. The most predominant theme in Pride and prejudice is love and matrimony. The opening lines of Pride and Prejudice are most famous, and strike the keynote of the novel: “ "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife." These lines are spoken by Mrs. Bennet to her husband Mr. Bennet. Mrs. Bennet desires to find suitable husbands for her five daughters. The popularity of the novel is substantiated by the fact that it has sold about 20 million copies across the globe. It is not possible to agree with Charlotte Bronte’s violent criticism of the novel: “ I haven’t any right to criticize books, and I don’t do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticize J
Chocolate Cream Soldier
Arms and the man by the Nobel Laureate George Bernard shaw is on e most thought provoking plays. It is a play with an impressive moral lesson about Love and war. Shaw affirmed that for the sake of ‘Art for art’s sake’ he won’t write a single line. But to criticize Sjhaw as a propagandist would be an error of perspective. I am sure if we follow the advice of Bluntschli, the mouthpiece of Shaw in the play, we would stop glorifying the war. Bluntschli is a ‘chocolate cream soldier’. Whenever he goes to the battlefield, he prefers to use chocolate instead of cartridges. Shaw is indirectly suggesting that food is more importan war. A.C. Ward is quite right that Arms and the Man makes us laugh, and makes us think. The play satirizes our romantic attitude toward love and war. This is fully substantiated by the following famous lines by Bluntschli where he criticizes the romantic attitude toward war: "Soldiering, my dear madam, is the coward's art of attacking mercilessly when you are
Pippa Middleton
It is really very shocking that a few websites have shown the topless photo of Pippa Middleton, the famous little sister of Kate.. This is not a new photo but rather five-year-old picture of Pippa Middleton as she was vacationing with her older sister Kate Middleton and P William. We know that Prince William is still haunted by her mother Princess Diana’s fatal car crash. Princess Diana had been the victim of paparazzi. It is indispensable that we our privacy should be protected. Whoever tries to violate it must be taken to task. In this case also, it is indispensable to find out how some sites published these private photos of Pippa Middleton. “Everyone has the right to respect for his private and family life, his home and his correspondence”- Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights. The Middleton family is angry, and feeling betrayed. Pippa Middleton was the Maid of Honor in the Royal Wedding on April 29 at Westminster Abbey. Due to topless photos at