Jaya Chandrasekhar: Recent Episodes
Jaya Chandrasekhar
Shades of genius in English literature.....poets playwrights novelists.....
A few brush strokes here and there ........
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The lyrical beauty and purity of this child of nature , the touching poignancy of the poet's love for her ....
The poet traces his intimate connect with nature from boyhood to mature age his spiritual growth, with nature as his guardian and guide and how he sees nature as the salvation for humanity
Homeless in a strange land a journey beset with hardship and suffering leads to the birth of Christianity and the death of pagan culture...
A melody a lyric a meditation on time , life , experience , salvation. The poet shares his spiritual philosophical musings , his search for meaning and purpose and his reflections on the nature of time , the barren emptiness of the modern world
Shy introverted the anxieties and inner life of Prufrock, how isolated and alienated he feels in the modern world and a new way of experience
Young mothers, with lost identities, in the afternoon of their lives hemmed in by the gradual, almost unnoticed decline.
unsettling melancholy ,pessimism as the poet comes to grips with the dull, emotion less pedestrian life of both Bleaney and himself and reflects on a man's character and nature judged by his mode of living and habits
Explores once again the meaning of life and finds in the comforting repetitive rhythm of days the lurking shadow of illness and death
The true story of Victorian times the dark underside of the blooming prosperity and progress man's pursuit of happiness and fulfilment, of desire and lust and it's aftermath of agonising pain and a sense of shame
Words and music with elegant design , Larkin brings a very English bleakness to his sharp observations on man's illusory world of desire hope expectations and the reality of the bitter truth
hopelessly romantic, unswervingly realist this unconventional love lyric comes with a celebration of impermanence and the sensuality of erotic love , without any promise of a lasting relationship
Impersonal detached, the poet reflects on love , through the portrayal of the infant ....
Auden has telescoped whole ages of history within the compass of a small lyric , the decay and dissolution in the modern age
Regardless of the poet's desire and intent poetry is ultimately what readers make of it , how it is received and perceived Yeats poetry lives in the hearts of his readers
When poetry takes wings and creates a space of its own what does it do can it infuse mankind with fresh hope and purpose ?
The relentless pursuit of material progress and prosperity, the giant strides in technology and science have they diminished the best in humans?
The relentless pursuit of material progress and prosperity and the giant strides in technology and science have they diminished the best in humans
The poet's profound concern for the modern world and it's problems , man obscure, reduced to a mere cog in the wheel
The metaphor of light and dark a world engulfed in hatred , selfish self seeking possessiveness, he questions the social order, political ideologies , voices concern and hope in the power of love and humanism, the unity of mankind
The poet traces the psychological political , historical causes leading to Hitler and the second world war
The universal truth reflected by the old masters...a troubled Realisation that the world doesn't revolve around your existence...in troubled times
Part 1 the nonchalant musings of an unseen speaker strolling in an Art gallery in the Museum of fine arts Brussels
a fervent prayer for a society free happy loving and caring. A new order, a new feel a new connect with man and nature....Eros the god of love and Freud to the rescue
The sense of menace , the dismal social gloom and Auden urges the essential goodness of life despite the presence of sin , to overtake and triumph
Freud to the rescue the Id and the conquest of the supreme antagonist the super consciousness
a panoramic view of the decadent modern society in the midst of unease and empty pleasures
The indecent haste of mapping the Radcliffe line , leaving a tragic and messy legacy, the architect Cyril Radcliffe, burnt his papers, refused his fee and left once and for all......not daring to look back....
beautiful idealised nature upstanding men ...symbol of virility fishermen and farmers....no longer young , admires identifies with them " my arms are like the twisted thorns and yet there beauty lay "
a sensitive blend of the contraries of thought, an inner being untangles questions... perhaps the earlier anxiety is replaced by a serene note ....
A powerful lament in the solitude of the spirit, a defiant acceptance....of physical limitations and infinite possibilities of imagination
The transient world and the One Reality.... through strife and Maya to Realisation and Nirvana.....can Yeats abandon the joy and beauty of the grand illusion?
rich in symbolism, the blue dome the golden bird the dolphins the nature art and transcendence
The school children of a modern convent .....an occasional visit expands into a philosophy of life a meditation on ageing and love
The Greek myth sweeps into a lyrical history apocalyptic in its vivid terror bringing into play the gyres of Yeats
Yeats troubled conscience the horrors of the first world war the unleashing of violence the disquiet and disintegration of an entire civilization
The enduring elegy which brimmed over into life and the world at large the dip and rise in his reputation a modern contemporary poet
The poet goes beyond private grief beyond the Victorian age to grapple with the eternal struggle of humanity
The bombast and military strength of Satan's followers in the council , Milton's hell unique . The celebration of Love , Milton's appeal in the twentieth century
Satan as a tragic hero . Did Milton's lofty moral intention get inadvertently swayed aside by the grand depiction of Satan?
metaphysical poetry and it's striking features . The daring originality of Donne's poems .... Donne as a love poet...in a league of his own
A play that assumes the character of the times and age it's placed in and it's interpretation how a play viewed as the bard's farewell to the stage typified in the benevolent virtuous prospero and his noble goal of repentance forgiveness and reconciliation becomes the world of the colonised