Blog by Alka Nigam at SpeakingTree.in https://www.speakingtree.in/blog/are-we-still-in-kaliyuga-680464 IN SEARCH OF THE CRADLE OF CIVILIZATION scholars acknowledge the impressive accomplishments of ancient civilizations of Anatolia, Egypt, Meso- America, Tibet and Central Asia but consider the Indus valley civilization to be the oldest continuous and living tradition. A section of the oldest Vedic literature written by an […]
F T Prince’s: The Wind In The Tree: An Analysis
Published in CRITICISM AND RESEARCH Dept. of English Vol 6 1983-84 The Wind in the Tree is a one-image poem of four lines, with the rhyming scheme of a quatrain, abba. The theme of the poem is frustration in love. The narrator is presented as confronting the situation with a spirit which may be described […]
A Drop Reveals the Ocean
Published in The Speaking Tree, page 4 (print edition), dated Nov 18, 2018 https://www.speakingtree.in/article/a-drop-reveals-the-ocean ALKA NIGAM writes of an eight-year-old Adi Shankara’s six-verse poem, the Atma Shatakam that encapsulates Advaita philosophy Shankara’s short poem consisting of six melodious lyrics is a magical gem radiating with the entire divine spectrum of Advaita […]
Poets At Work
When we talk about poets we have a picture of a delicate man having long hair with a paper and pen sitting near a brook, oblivious of the humdrum of pulsating world, waiting patiently for the divine Muse to visit him. Possessing a finer sensibility, they are born not made. Socrates speaking about his impressions […]
The New Women Poets
http://www.differenttruths.com/gender/the-new-women-poets/ I don’t mind dying Ritually, since I always rise again But I should have liked a little more blood To show they are taking me seriously (U.A. Fanthrope) Not very long ago expressing his opinion about Charlotte’s literary activities, Robert Southey – ten years before the publication of Jane Eyre – had […]
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