The Cantos

to be the turning points in the lives of the four main characters of the epic. The characters which can be termed as ‘game changers’ include Hanuman, Kaikeyi and Vibhishana. Apart from them the third chapter also includes a brief note on the seven cantos or ‘kaandas’. The fourth and the fifth chapters provide additional information and facts plus also deals with its major adaptations on silver screen. This paper would…

DANTE ALIGHIERI, A divided and divisive figure © Elizabeth Greenwood DANTE ALIGHIERI, a divided and divisive figure, by Elizabeth Greenwood FICTION by…

In Richard Misrach exquisite photograph, it displays a portrait of Border Cantos as a land separated by a dark red fence and a split road heading three different ways. The purpose of art is evoke emotion and thought in the viewer. Admirers of the art piece will see the physical characteristics, or the explicit portion and the deeper meaning and emotion, or the implicit portion, of the art. As you look at this artwork that portrays the 2,000 miles long border between the United States and Mexico,…

In H.D.’s poem “Amaranth,” the speaker attempts to assert her autonomy amidst the goddess’s demand for absolute devotion and her lover’s need for affection and beauty. Torn between these two figures, the speaker occupies no-place, or rather an absence of self that she attempts to fill with compulsive repetition. Despite the speaker’s sporadic assertions of self-worth and independence however, repeated phrases do not signify what the speaker possesses, but what she lacks; focusing on themes such…

reason is the effect of the continuous involution of the OM in the continuous births that reduced the potencies below thirty- six. In this as Praśana Upanishad has said the line of progeny is well maintained. Katha Upanishad Chapter -1, Canto-3, Verse -5 “the discriminating man will merge the organs of speech in to the mind ( One who does involution of OM in his mind) ; he will merge the mind in to the intelligent self; he will merge the intelligent self to the Great Soul; he will…

Dante: The Journey And The Mission- How Did The Author Make Use of Females In The Divine Comedy? When studying Dante’s Divine Comedy, it is easy to dismiss the significance and presence of women throughout, due to the domination of men and male characters. It is, however, important to note the significance of women and, in particular, the chosen historical figures the author uses to portray his view of women in general. Female figures are present throughout the three canticles of Inferno,…

stench and it constantly rains. However, the rain is not water, but rather filled with dirt and excrement. There is also a three-headed dog that makes residency in this circle. This monster almost stops Virgil and Dante form passing. In the sixth Canto, a man explains why he landed himself in the Third Circle of Hell. “Your citizens nicknames me Ciacco, The Hog: gluttony was my offense, and for it I lie here rotting like a swollen log.” (Dante). Ciacco turns into one of the characters that…

Rosina opens the duet singing “Dunque io son tu non m'inganni? Dunque io son la fortunata!” (Then it is I … You are not mocking me? Then I am the fortunate girl!) in bel canto style. (Often the Rosina will enliven the “fortunata” with a trill and hold as long as possible.) When she sings “Gia' me l'ero immaginata: lo sapeva pria di te” (But I had already guessed it, I knew it all along), listen for her rapid descending trills:…

reliable as it is a published article in Advances in the Study of Behaviour. Website: http://www.xeno-canto.org/ Bibliography: Foundation, X. (2005) # the Mike Nyenes bird call set #: Xeno-canto. Available at: http://www.xeno-canto.org/set/258 (Accessed: 5 November 2016). In-line Citation: (Foundation, 2005) Xeno-canto is a website that shares bird sounds from all over the world. With this website, I am able to listen, download, or even record and upload sound recordings of birds. This will…

that communism is not the evil they are making it out to be. The reader can interpret him eating with the farmers as him hiding in the country side like they could picture themselves in “Tonight I write the saddest lines”. Another excerpt from “Canto General is, “turn to the world rising above the foliage higher than the sequoias.” This statement from his poem could be viewed as how his country is taking over his communist party or how Pablo Neruda and his fellow communist are running away.…