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Category: Poetry

Consolations of Reading

26 Jan 2019 Subhasis Chattopadhyay

This is a recommendation and literature review post. I touch upon works which have transformed me. I hope my readers too are helped by these authors and poets.

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The End of the World sung by Skeeter Davis

19 Nov 2018 Subhasis Chattopadhyay

This song is one of the best out there and I am a sucker for country music…so when I found it in the horror sci-fi movie adaptation of Stephen King’s Under the Dome, I couldn’t but share it with you, my reader. Thank you for listening in.

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Funeral Blues by W.H. Auden

29 Oct 2018 Subhasis Chattopadhyay

This is one of Auden’s most beautiful but under-anthologized poems. The beauty of the poem is undercut by great sorrow since “our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought”.

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Spring and Fall by Fr. Hopkins SJ

22 Oct 2018 Subhasis Chattopadhyay

Hopkins knew the fleeting/hardening nature of Samsara. In this poem, which is not very well known, Fr. Hopkins is at his best as a practitioner of Sprung Rhythm and as a follower of St. Ignatius of Loyola. The world turns, while the Cross is still.

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The Rose Family by Robert Frost, or Poem 2

16 Oct 2018 Subhasis Chattopadhyay

Frost’s evokes Romeo and Juliet in this poem. This is one of Frost’s lesser known poems. But his legendary machismo intrudes upon the poem unlike Shakespeare who never intruded in his works.

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Poem 1, by Francis William Bourdillon

9 Sep 2018 Subhasis Chattopadhyay

This is one of those love poems which never leaves the heart. What use if we call poetry texts? What use if we forget that poetry is what makes us human? What use to know that the Big Bang occurred if one has not felt abject in a sky afire with stars?

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  • Chronicity and Temporality: A Revisionary Hermeneutics of Time
  • Interview 1, Garhwal Post, Dehradun, 2017
  • Interview 2, Garhwal Post, Dehradun, 2018
  • Reflections on Hindu Theology
  • Review of Julia Kristeva’s This Incredible Need to Believe
  • Review of the new Princeton Edition of Erasmus’s The Praise of Folly

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