Monthly Archives: May 2008

Ode on a Grecian Urn

Posted on Tuesday, May 27, 2008 by Abhijit

  By John Keats (biography in Wikipedia) Thou still unravish’d bride of quietness,       Thou foster-child of Silence and slow Time,     Sylvan historian, who canst thus express       A flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme:     What leaf-fringed legend haunts … Continue reading →

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Jhumpa Lahiri and Unaccustomed Earth

Posted on Tuesday, May 27, 2008 by Abhijit

Jhumpa Lahiri writes about Indian Americans. But this is really literature of globalisation and the immigrant experience — at the opposite end of Monica Ali's Brick Lane and Kiran Desai's The Inheritance of Loss. Lahiri writes about highly qualified, professionally … Continue reading →

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Naipaul and The Enigma of Arrival

Posted on Monday, May 26, 2008 by Abhijit

Reviewing Patrick French's biography of Naipaul in the Times Literary Supplement, AN Wilson is absolutely right when he says: Naipaul is one of the best journalists; The Enigma of Arrival is a masterpiece. The Enigma bored me when I first … Continue reading →

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Poems and maps

Posted on Monday, May 26, 2008 by Abhijit

I just added links to a few pages I created. Neither the Google Maps nor the poems are mine. I added the maps because Calcutta (Kolkata) is my hometown and Singapore where I am now. And the poems happen to … Continue reading →

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The Wild Swans at Coole

Posted on Monday, May 26, 2008 by Abhijit

By WB Yeats (biography in Wikipedia) The trees are in their autumn beauty,     The woodland paths are dry,     Under the October twilight the water     Mirrors a still sky;     Upon the brimming water among the stones             … Continue reading →

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Rhapsody On A Windy Night

Posted on Monday, May 26, 2008 by Abhijit

By TS Eliot (biography in Wikipedia) Twelve o’clock.Along the reaches of the streetHeld in a lunar synthesis,Whispering lunar incantationsDissolve the floors of memoryAnd all its clear relations,Its divisions and precisions,Every street lamp that I passBeats like a fatalistic drum,And through … Continue reading →

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Do not go gentle into that good night

Posted on Monday, May 26, 2008 by Abhijit

By Dylan Thomas (biography in Wikipedia) Do not go gentle into that good night,Old age should burn and rave at close of day;Rage, rage against the dying of the light. Though wise men at their end know dark is right,Because … Continue reading →

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My Favourite Poems

Posted on Monday, May 26, 2008 by Abhijit

Here are some of my favourite poems. I hope to add more links from time to time.   Matthew Arnold Dover Beach Matthew Arnold The Scholar-Gipsy Margaret Atwood Variation On The Word Sleep WH Auden In Memory Of WB Yeats … Continue reading →

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Sailing to Byzantium

Posted on Monday, May 26, 2008 by Abhijit

By W. B. Yeats (biography in Wikipedia) That is no country for old men. The youngIn one another’s arms, birds in the trees- Those dying generations – at their song,The salmon-falls, the mackerel-crowded seas,Fish, flesh, or fowl, commend all summer … Continue reading →

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The Second Coming

Posted on Monday, May 26, 2008 by Abhijit

By W. B. Yeats (biography in Wikipedia) Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and … Continue reading →

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