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Poetry Review: The Poet as a Poet in Veronica Forrest-Thomson’s “Through the Looking Glass “
“The world is not something static, irredeemably given by a natural language. When language is re-imagined the world expands with it.” Veronica Forrest-Thomson, Poetic Artifice: A Theory of Twentieth-century Poetry Link to the poem: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/143680/through-the-looking-glass Writing this review seems to be inviting a direct admonition from the poet since in her own words in the… Read more
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The Variety Theatre Audience in Mikhail Bulgakov’s ‘The Master and Margarita’
‘The city folk have changed greatly… externally, … have [they] changed inwardly?’ Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Maragrita (Penguin Books, 2007), pp. 122–123 The question posed by Maestro Woland as he is called in this scene resounds solidly even today as our society moves from one technological acquisition to another so fast that while we… Read more
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Poetry Summary: John Keats – When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be
“When I have fears that I may cease to be” John Keats’ sonnet written in 1818, was published posthumously in 1848. Keats’ fear of death was no romantic fancy. Of course, we have all wondered about death. It is the most inevitable of all of nature’s various devices. It has many devices, and among love,… Read more
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Unpredictability in Haruki Murakami’s ‘Kafka on the Shore’
Knowingly and unknowingly we have trudged into each other’s paths. That is the order of events in life. One on hand, Satoru Nakata has the eerie ability to predict the strangest of occurrences yet has no bearing where each event leads him. On the other hand, Kafka Tamura is driven by his quest to escape… Read more
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