tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-91762951515342660972024-03-13T21:44:38.917-07:00Rehan QayoomUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger58125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9176295151534266097.post-40174465000662420802020-02-21T05:26:00.000-08:002020-02-21T08:03:46.358-08:00Review of ‘Love Is A Virus’ by Lola Demo<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12.0pt; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-align: justify;">
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mind-blowing album is pure seduction by music. ‘Love Is A Virus’ is very in-the-moment
but its lyrics deliver an overall message about society’s obsession with making
us into what we are not, with being other than oneself. When one tries to
change what one is, the things that define an individual, we are no longer
wholly ourselves - That which makes each individual unique. Auden takes up the question in his poem ‘Alone’, and concludes ‘Perhaps,
in fact, we never are alone.’ We are
made up of what we are and what we become, to deliberately try to change that
is to disturb or distort the equilibrium that is our true essence - That which
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drums pick up late in ‘Like Love Is Elastic’ but at precisely the right moment.
The music video ending with the error message ‘System Failure’ blinking on the
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Where was the lifeline music? What had happened <br />To consolation, prayer, transcendence –<br /> To the selective disconnecting<br /> Of the pain center?</span></span><br />
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lyrics to some of the songs have a ballad-like structure and flow as in ‘Cry
Too Much Don't Love Enough’: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">As
in <a href="https://www.lolademo-music.com/" target="_blank">Lola Demo</a>’s other albums there are secret caves and conduits of
instrumentals that add ground and depth </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16px;">off-guard</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 12pt;">, synthesizing with the lyrics, taking them along with their brutally poetic metaphors of violence.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The dedication of <a href="http://www.tepidautumn.net/" target="_blank">Nadia Gerassimenko</a>’s latest volume of poetry itself (‘<i>to you</i>’) is a supersonic grasping for the fly in aspic, it is a clutching at the crystalline moon in a sea-mist spray. The book includes</span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> the sequence of Dolores poems inspired by Nabokov’s </span><i style="font-family: times, 'times new roman', serif;">Lolita</i><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> and its 1997 </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1owbhOKKT0I" style="font-family: times, 'times new roman', serif;" target="_blank">film</a><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> adaptation starring Dominique Swain and Jeremy Irons. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Through these powerful poems Gerassimenko addresses not only illness and trauma but also the pertinent questions of our times that we as a society are still grappling with, struggling to comprehend, failing to understand; such as the issue of non-consensual relations which she argues desensitise the injured party so that they cannot even distinguish ‘a simple touch’ from that of the abuser (‘<i>dolores hushed</i>’, 11). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">In ‘<i>freedom came in gradations</i>’ her ‘inner voice’<span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: x-small;">[1]</span></span></span> that rises from the agonies of the soul is revealed most clearly in tongues of fire that are also indicative of the double-edged sword at the mouth revealed to the Prophet Isaiah and referenced in the New Testament vision of the final battle of good against evil, of light against dark forces.<span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: x-small;">[2]</span></span></span> An Oxford exegetical Professor of Holy Scripture writes that ‘This is a symbol of the prophet, whose utterance has a cutting edge to it.’<span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: x-small;">[3]</span></span></span> Gerassimenko immaculately whispers forth these inspirations to us in italics. Her visions are seen through cracked windows, their epiphanies ‘birthed in me, / I stood & shredded / leftovers of pain-body // I un/attached’ (18).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>at the water’s edge</i> is described on the blurb as a ‘rebirth through language’ but the birthing thereof matures and ages in other poems in the book. Ted Hughes once said ‘I feel that my poems are obscure, I give the secret away without giving it’:<sup><sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">[4]</span></sup></sup><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The ‘right one in’ is ‘<i>above below</i>’, an Eliotian poem of amazing brevity the title of which may well refer to the Hermetic aphorism of universal application <i>As above, so below</i>. The rhyme in the first two lines links this poem with the Dolores sequence in the Latin/English suffix –<i>ous</i>, indicated by the bracketed and replete ‘joy(ous)’ (24), meaning <i>full of</i>, backtracking to ‘<i>douloureuse</i>’ and rhyming with its opposite in Sylvia Plath’s ‘dolorous’ in the poem ‘Sheep in Fog’.<span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: x-small;">[5]</span></span></span> The wordplay on <i>w(hole)</i> in the final stanza also indicates part of the healing process in both ‘<i>dolores hushed</i>’ and ‘<i>above below</i>’ where it is used with the same implication and in a way that expounds its first usage. In the former the lines ‘complicated life is not convenient-’ (11) is also true conversely. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The Dolores sequence culminates in the astounding ‘<i>dolores forgives</i>’ where in the breaking down of a word one may find advanced the meaning(s) and implications of another. By being overt and unambiguous about it Gerassimenko highlights the importance of forgiveness to the healing process and not necessarily forgetting (as in a case of suicide in the title song ‘Forgiven, Not Forgotten’ by The Corrs from their 1996 album), this is explained in the title poem ‘forgetting is a matter of time / forgiveness, the ultimate release’ (‘<i>at the water’s edge</i>’ 23). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">In ‘<i>elusive</i>’ the fire is only ever assuaged by the waters of apperception where a beauty sits amiss; elusive and silent, heavy with emotion, reclaiming the ‘ghosts of lovers past in my womb,’ ‘& i craved water to dampen the earth in me. i sought catharsis to rest my ghosts in peace. but my salty tears kept drying me out, feeding them all the more; I could no longer be your loyal’ (30). It goes on to deliver the very apt metaphor of two trees entwining with each other in order to nurture and protect one another in a stable loving relationship in a manner that allows a branching out, to respond creatively to the world about and that of others. A bond rather like the <i>houris</i> of the Quranic Paradise that are described in an allegory ‘As though they were protected eggs with their glossy shine well cared for.’<span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: x-small;">[6]</span></span></span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>at the water’s edge</i> contains the most deeply-felt and carefully crafted chapbook poems I have ever read (I am told they took four years to write) and it is well worth spending healthy hours and days looking up the diverse meanings and connections in these poems that form the whole.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;"> <i>The Bible</i>. Isaiah 49:2, Revelation 1: 16. (King James Authorised Version, 1611. Oxford, 1997). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Some notes </span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">were omitted from the book </span><i style="font-size: 10pt;"><a href="https://rehanqayoom.weebly.com/store/p4/About_Time%3A_Poems_%26_Adaptations_1993_-_2012.html" target="_blank">About Time: Poems & Adaptations<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>1993 - 2012</a></i><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">due to the </span><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">length</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> of the ones that were included. They are published here now in full.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Mah': Mīr Taqī Mīr, (1723 – 1810) was the leading Urdu court poet of eighteenth century India under the Mughals; <i>mah</i> is <i>moon</i>. Perhaps also the name of his beloved. </span></div>
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prancing': </span>Widdershins is to take a course opposite the apparent motion of the sun, left-hand-wise, unlucky. The circumambulations in many a sacred ritual are performed counter-clockwise such as those around the Kaaba seven times during the annual Hajj pilgrimage. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">'<span style="text-align: center;">They laugh at me </span><i style="text-align: center;">that sometime did me seek,</i><span style="text-align: center;">': </span><span class="a" style="line-height: 12pt;"><span style="border-color: windowtext; border-image: none; border-style: none; border-width: 1pt; border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm;">Sir Thomas Wyatt.</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="line-height: 12pt;"><span style="border-color: windowtext; border-image: none; border-style: none; border-width: 1pt; border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm;"> </span></span><span class="a" style="line-height: 12pt;"><span style="border-color: windowtext; border-image: none; border-style: none; border-width: 1pt; border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm;">‘They flee from me</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="line-height: 12pt;"><span style="border-color: windowtext; border-image: none; border-style: none; border-width: 1pt; border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm;"> </span></span><span class="l7" style="line-height: 12pt;"><span style="border-color: windowtext; border-image: none; border-style: none; border-width: 1pt; border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm;">that
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beaux mondes': Fictionary is a word game in which players try to guess the meaning of obscure words. Beaux mondes pertain to high fashion.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="vertical-align: super;">Asham'd to own they gave delight before,<br />Reduc'd to feign it, when they give no more:<br />As Hags hold Sabbaths, less for joy than spight,<br />So these their merry, miserable Night;<br />Still round and round the Ghosts of Beauty glide,<br />And haunt the places where their Honour dy'd.<br /> See how the World its Veterans rewards!<br />A Youth of frolicks, an old Age of Cards, <br />Fair to no purpose, artful to no end, <br />Young without Lovers, old without a Friend, <br />A Fop their Passion, but their Prize a Sot, <br />Alive, ridiculous, and dead, forgot!</span><span style="vertical-align: super;">i</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i style="text-align: center;">And in short, I was afraid</i><span style="text-align: center;">. </span> <span class="a" style="line-height: 12pt;"><span style="border-color: windowtext; border-image: none; border-style: none; border-width: 1pt; border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm;">T. S. Eliot.</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="line-height: 12pt;"><span style="border-color: windowtext; border-image: none; border-style: none; border-width: 1pt; border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm;"> </span></span><span class="a" style="line-height: 12pt;"><span style="border-color: windowtext; border-image: none; border-style: none; border-width: 1pt; border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm;">‘The
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="l10" style="line-height: 12pt;"><span style="border-color: windowtext; border-image: none; border-style: none; border-width: 1pt; border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm;">'</span></span><span style="text-align: center;">The drowned belle de la Seine humming': </span></span><span style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">La belle de la Seine was an unidentified young woman whose body was pulled out of the Seine river in the 1880s; her supposed death mask became a popular fixture on the walls of artists' homes in the early twentieth century and her visage was the fashion paradigm for German and Russian girls; it inspired many writers, including Vladimir Nabokov’s 1934 poem ‘L'Inconnue de la Seine’. In 1958, Norwegian toymaker Asmund Laerdal and Austro-Czech physician Peter Safar used it as the basis for ‘Rescue Anne’, the first CPR training model. In 2015 Anne-Gaelle Saliot published <i>The Drowned Muse</i>, a full length book on her social and cultural influence, (Oxford).</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">It seems to me that the chief thing about a woman - who is much of a woman - is that in the long run she is not to be had. A man may bring her his laurel wreaths and songs and what not, but if that man doesn't satisfy her, in some undeniable physical fashion - then in one way or other she takes him in her mouth and shakes him like a cat a mouse, and throws him away. She is not to be caught by any of the catch-words, love, beauty, honour, duty, worth, work, salvation - none of them - not in the long run. In the long run she only says 'Am I satisfied, or is there some beastly unsatisfaction gnawing and gnawing inside me.’ And if there is some unsatisfaction, it is physical at least as much as psychic, sex as much as soul. She goes for man, or men, after her own fashion, and so is called a Sphinx, and her riddle is that the man wasn't able to satisfy her - riddle enough for him: And an artist - a poet - is like a woman in that he too must have this satisfaction. There is that much life in him, more than in other people, which will not let him </span></span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">be<sup>ii</sup></span></span></blockquote><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">'</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;">So these are the roots that grasp at the fly in
aspic': </span><span style="text-align: center;">Aspic is a savory jelly made with meat stock that contains pieces of meat, seafood, or eggs and is set in a mold; and used to contain pieces of meat, seafood, or eggs; its name derives from its colour, resembling that of the small, venomous snake called an asp (which Cleopatra used to commit suicide). Flies have been preserved in amber, but the expression ‘flies in aspic’ has become widespread as a simile for an anachronism.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="text-align: center;">'</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;">Love answers all the ogress' grave questions': </span><span style="text-align: center;">The ogress is the ogress in Ted Hughes' <i>Crow</i> who asks the seven questions, not all of which Hughes allowed Crow to answer. Also the questions such as those in Gwion’s riddle in Graves' <i>The White Goddess</i> and many others scattered throughout the classical world literature which are too numerous to mention. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="text-align: center;"> Afagddu's ugliness is prerogative to his success and high intelligence (to recompense). He achieves </span><span style="text-align: center;">this by quaffing a cauldron of the Triple Muse that has simmered for a year and a day from below by mephitic jets of chewed toadstools and warmed from above from the breaths of the nine Muses (season by season with a brew of the sacred magical herbs ivy, hellebore and laurel, in accordance with the planetary motions). The cauldron itself contained a mash of barley, acorns, honey and bull's blood. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="text-align: center;"> Afagddu eventually grows up to be swineherd royale to King Guaire of Connaught. His rival is </span><span style="text-align: center;">Gwion </span><span style="text-align: center;">who accidentally tasted the elixir when a drop bubbled onto his finger and Cerridwen tries to destroy him, adopting many guises - But thereon hangs another tale. In his poem 'Kadweir Taliesin' he mentions the cauldron 'of the five Trees.’ Taliesin himself was a Second Coming of Gwion. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="text-align: center;"> Cerridwen is also the White Goddess of Life-in-Death and Death-in-Life. The Welsh bards described </span><span style="text-align: center;">her as a Grain Goddess. Robert Graves in <i>The White Goddess</i> explicates upon the etymology of her name (and speculates that Arianrhod is another one of her many aspects). Graves points out Cerridwen's close connection with the witch Sycorax in Shakespeare's <i>The Tempest</i> in the chapter 'Hercules on the Lotus.' J. A. MacCullock in <i>The Religion of the Ancient Celts</i> (1911), equates her with the Sow Demeter (who is succeeded by Rhiannon). She had a cast in her left eye that has been recorded in the <i>Romance of Taliesin</i>. Sir James George Frazer records her existence in parts of Germany and France as spirit-of-the-corn and Cat Goddess. </span></span></div>
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<span style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> In Christianity from as early as the thirteenth century the Virgin Mary herself becomes the cauldron or source of inspiration. Long before this she had already been reinvented by the Saxons, Angles and the Danes who brought very similar versions of her over to England with them: </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">'</span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; text-align: center;">Lives, the Life-in-Death, an antevasin': </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 12pt;">Antevasin is Sanskrit for ‘One who
lives on the border’.</span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 12pt;">Elizabeth Gilbert,
the author of </span><i style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; line-height: 12pt;">Eat, Pray, Love </i><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 12pt;">(2006), discovered the world when she was living in an ashram.</span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 12pt;">In her words ‘It indicated a person who had </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 12pt;">left the bustling centre of worldly life to go live at the edge of the
forest where the spiritual masters dwelled. </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 12pt;">The </span><i style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; line-height: 12pt;">antevasin</i><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 12pt;"> was not one of
the villagers anymore – not a householder with a conventional life.</span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 12pt;">But neither </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 12pt;">was he yet a transcendent – not one of those sages who live deep in the
unexplored woods, fully realized.</span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 12pt;">The </span><i style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; line-height: 12pt;">antevasin</i><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 12pt;"> was an in-betweener.</span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 12pt;">He was a border-dweller.</span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 12pt;">He lived in sight of both worlds, but looked </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 12pt;">toward the unknown.</span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 12pt;">And he was a
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Evelyn Waugh novel </span><i style="line-height: 12pt;">Brideshead </i><i style="line-height: 12pt;">Revisited</i><span style="line-height: 12pt;">.</span></span></div>
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and me</i>: </span><span style="text-align: center;">John Lennon. ‘Love’. <i>John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band</i> . (1970).</span></span></div>
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<span style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;"> Edited by George J. Zyfrank & James T. Boulton. (Cambridge University Press 1981). 94, 95.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">iv Graves, </span></span><span style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">‘The Dedicated Poet’, <i>Oxford Addresses on Poetry, </i>(1962). <i>Collected Writings on Poetry</i>. Edited by Paul </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">TRANSLATION & COMMENTARY ON SOME VERSES FROM THE POEM 'ARTFUL IDOL' BY MEVLANA JALĀLADDIN MUHAMMAD RUMI FROM THE BOOK <i>DĪVĀN E KABĪR ŠAMS E TABRĪZĪ</i> [<i>THE GREAT COLLECTION OF THE WORKS OF SHAMS OF TABRIZ</i>]. THE <i>DĪVĀN</i> IS FILLED WITH POEMS EXPRESSING THE MYSTICAL STAGE OF <i>FANĀ</i> IN WHICH RUMI SEES SHAMS EVERYWHERE AND IN EVERYTHING.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">My artful idol appears every moment in a new guise, steals my heart and away he goes</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">This friend appears at each breath in a new dress now as a frail old man and now as a robust youth <span style="font-size: x-small;">[1]</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Sometimes he hides his true nature in dry ringing clay diving into the reality of things</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Then emerges from the depths of meaning like pieces of pottery and disappearing into the heavenly Gardens <span style="font-size: x-small;">[2]</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">What is the truth of before or after? Or of transmigration outside of the majesty of the beloved?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">When it is he who is drawn out from the scabbard like a scimitar and slays an entire generation <span style="font-size: x-small;">[3]</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">He circuits across the earth for a few moments to pass his time</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">He is Jesus who ascends to the rotating dome and is heard singing hymns <span style="font-size: x-small;">[4]</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Now he is Noah drowning an entire age through the power of his prayer whilst himself fleeing in the ark </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Now he is Abraham the well-beloved rising from amidst the fire whose flames turn to flowers </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Now he is Joseph sending his shirt from Egypt enlightening the whole world with its colours</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Then he appears as a brightness from the eyes of Jacob so he could see him once again <span style="font-size: x-small;">[5]</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">He was Tabriz itself, he was Shams himself shining in the gardens of sacred light upon cogent things</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">He it was who became apparent beneath the surge of secret things and revealed himself in love <span style="font-size: x-small;">[6]</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">God is still the directing hand in all affairs: He does not sit apart, careless of mankind or of any of His creatures. But His working shows new Splendour every day, every hour, every moment.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">[2] He created man from dry ringing clay like pieces of pottery.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">No other scripture speaks of ringing pieces of broken water storage pots of terra cotta in relation to the creation of humans nor did anyone know that they have passed through a phase of existence akin to ringing pieces of pottery. This is proof of the Quran being the complete word of God. The scientists also agree to it now and in this way Science testifies to the greatness of <i>The Holy Quran</i>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><span style="font-size: x-small;">The grammarians take Jinn to mean bacteria and Imam Raghib has derived the same meanings that anything that is invisible to the naked eye comes under the category of Jinn. The Holy Prophet also defined the Jinn in the same way in saying 'Do not wipe the private parts with bones because it is the food of the Jinn.' [Var.] When one studies the research from this perspective it is proven that bacteria are created from fire.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">صَلْصَلٍۢ with the meaning of dry ringing clay. See <i>Al-Munjid</i> by Abdul Hafeez Balyavi and <i>Al-Mufradat fi Gharib al-Quran</i> by Abul Qasim al-Hussayn bin Mufaddal bin Muhammad al-Raghib of Isfahan.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;"> This is the subject which could never itself have occurred to Muhammad the Holy Messenger of Allah ﷺ by any stretch of his imagination. No mention is found in any other Divine book of the creation of humankind from ringing pieces of pottery. But the scientists have resolved this enigma in the present age.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;"> Secondly before the birth of humanity the Jinn were created from blasts of fiery hot wind falling from the skies. This aspect is also one that could never have been imagined by Muhammad the Holy Messenger of Allah ﷺ until God who is Knower of the Hidden had informed him of it. The Jinn created from نَّارِ السَّمُومِ [‘blasts of fire’] are the Bacteria which also resolves the enigma of where the stagnant blackish mud came from. Moist clay does not stagnate of itself without the presence of Bacteria.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;"> In the current age there are various explanations offered for the word Jinn but here one explanation for the Jinn is that Virus and Bacteria are also Jinn that came into existence as a result of the fiery radioactive rays falling from the heavens since the beginning of the cosmos. All scientists of the current age are unanimous on this that Bacteria and Viruses exist by deriving energy from fire and as a direct consequence thereof.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;"> Then it makes a Prophecy about mankind that carries glorious mystical meanings and unveils the subtle secrets of creation. Earlier books do speak of the concept of man being created from moist earth but the idea of mankind being created from dry ringing clay like pieces of pottery is one which is not mentioned by any book before 'The Holy Quran'. It cannot be explained in detail here but the scientists know that there was a stage of creation where it was essential for the creative substances to be dry like ringing pieces of poetry. Then the seas took in this dry element and wrapped it into its tides to embark upon a journey of the chemical progression of mankind in which it was necessary for the creation of mankind that this essential chemical not to return to its earlier form. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">Also see pages 342 - 345 in <i>Revelation, Rationality, Knowledge & Truth</i> and the following chapters from the section on 'Life in the Perspective of Quranic Revelations': </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.alislam.org/library/books/revelation/part_5_section_3.html" target="_blank">The Jinn</a>, </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.alislam.org/library/books/revelation/part_5_section_4.html" target="_blank">The Essential Role of Clay & Photosynthesis in Evolution</a>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">[3] Referencing the two-pronged sword of the Imam Ali, cousin and son in-law of the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ, his fourth Caliph and the first Shia Imam.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">[4] See <a href="http://www.facebook.com/RehanQayoom/posts/1211356695650757" target="_blank">'The Islamic view of the Ascension of Jesus Christ as revealed in the Quran'</a>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">[6] Shams: literally the sun. Also referencing the oft-repeated Quranic expression هُوَ ٱلَّذِى ['He it is'] for God. Note as well the past tense in reference to Shams.</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9176295151534266097.post-58177859530340221842017-08-25T09:03:00.000-07:002018-02-22T05:24:59.713-08:00Contextual Notes to 'India'<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://www.tepidautumn.net/home/2017/7/12/india-a-poem-by-rehan-qayoom" target="_blank">'INDIA'</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">* 'To return to love'. As often the poem is “intricately patterned”,<span style="font-size: x-small;">[1]</span> mapped out and peppered with dense allusions - The returning at the beginning of the poem is partly a backward glance at T. S. Eliot's:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">What we call the beginning is often the end</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br />And to make an end is to make a beginning.</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">The end is where we start from.</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">We shall not cease from exploration</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">And the end of all our exploring</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">Will be to arrive where we started</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">And know the place for the first time.</span> </span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">* '<i>Ach, du.</i>' Sylvia Plath. ‘Daddy’, <span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.8667px;">12<sup>th </sup></span>October 1962. <i>Collected Poems</i>. Edited by Ted Hughes. (Faber & Faber, 1981).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">* '<i>dark dark dark</i>'. Eliot, ‘Four Quartets: East Coker’, (1940). <i>The Poems of T. S. Eliot: Collected & Uncollected Poems</i>. Edited Christopher Ricks & Jim McCue. (2 vols, Faber & Faber, 2015).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">* '<i>Secretamente, entre la sombre y el alma.</i>' Pablo Neruda. <i>Cien sonetos de amor</i>, (Editorial Universitaria, 1959).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">* 'You might know her too, she is oft-returning ...' </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">One of God's Divine attributes in the </span><i style="font-family: times, 'times new roman', serif;">Quran</i><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> is </span><i style="font-family: times, 'times new roman', serif;">al-Tawwab</i><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> (the Oft-returning). It is contrasted here with 'She comes corrected, comes alive in colours:' with a nod to Ted Hughes' 'Crow's Undersong' whereas the </span><i style="font-family: times, 'times new roman', serif;">She</i><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> is the She Who Must Be Obeyed (of John Mortimer's </span><i style="font-family: times, 'times new roman', serif;">Rumpoles</i><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">* '<i>hastío forcejea con los lentos crepúsculos.</i>' Neruda, <i>Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada</i>. (Santiago, Editorial Nascimento, 1924).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">* 'Than a craving in the weather of her love'. 'A process in the weather of the heart', (Dylan Thomas).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">* "I push you away </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">* 'Warning of those ...' The verse offers answers to (and reasons for) the great questions in the style of Hughes' 'Fate Playing':</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">Because the message somehow met a goblin,</span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;"><br />Because precedents tripped your expectations,</span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;"><br />Because your London was still a kaleidoscope</span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;"><br />Of names and places any jolt could scramble,</span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;"><br />You waited mistaken.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">'<a href="https://www.facebook.com/Metzgerpoetryandcollaborations/photos/a.620846307967816.1073741831.154711567914628/620847124634401" target="_blank">Why.</a>' by Metzger is another poem along these lines from <i>Transcriptions of Time</i>. (MiDEA, 2009). 154, 155 as is 'Why?' by John Siddique in <i>Full Blood</i>. (Salt, 2011). 81.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">* 'Is She? Will There?' 'Do you? Is she?' (Evelyn Waugh, <i>Brideshead Revisited</i>. 1945, 1959).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">* 'The third beside'. Third Man Syndrome - Thus Eliot:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Who is the third who walks always beside you?</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br />When I count, there are only you and I together</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">But when I look ahead up the white road</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">There is always another one walking beside you</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">Gliding wrapt in a brown mantle, hooded</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">I do not know whether a man or a woman</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">— But who is that on the other side of you?</span> </span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Who is this walking eternity’s highway</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">Towards the moment of fusion? She who winds her watch</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">With childhood’s logic of subtractions and reductions?</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">She for whom the dawn is not heralded</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">With rooster’s crow, but by breakfast’s aroma?</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">She who wears love’s crown</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">And is withering in the folds of her wedding dress?</span> </span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">* '<i><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;">The vacant interstellar spaces, the vacant into the vacant,</span></i>' Eliot, 'East Coker'.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">* 'She was born to be somebody else’s girlfriend'. With <i>Damage</i> in mind by Josephine Hart, (1991, 2011) and its 1992 film adaptation:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Eros is a god. We have seen him tear down empires. We have seen him tear down families. The idea that erotic life is funny is, I think one of the great tragedies of our time. It has not been regarded as a joke before to quite the same degree and it is an area of life in which we must tread carefully because we imagine we're in control of it, we imagine we can solve this, we imagine we can dominate this but very rarely do we ... </span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;"> (Josephine Hart. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/embed/UesuROs74bc" target="_blank">Interview</a>, 1998).</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Usually it dominates us. Nobody can possess another person except in death; we do this by rewriting their stories. In the symbolism of Tantric Yoga, Kali stands with her feet on the chest of the phallic god Siva, in an emblem of reversed sexual intercourse, which nevertheless produces an erection in Siva (as portrayed in numerous Indian temple carvings and medallions). The serpent Vasuki is found in Hindu and Buddhist mythology, its sister Manasa is to be found in Chinese and Japanese mythology. The god Shiva in Hinduism is believed to be garlanded with 5 serpents that represent wisdom and eternity. Greta Garbo performs an exquisite Divine dance around the idol of Shiva in the 1931 film <i>Mata Hari</i>. Hughes' discussion of serpent imagery can be found in 'The Snake in the Oak'.<span style="font-size: x-small;">[2]</span> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">* 'When their eyes were dazzled'. فَإِذَا بَرِق الْبَصَرُ ['When the eye is dazzled'] (<i>The Holy Quran</i>. Al Qiyamah [The Resurrection]: 8).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">[1] F. Scott Fitzgerald to Max Perkins. <i>The Correspondence of F. Scott Fitzgerald</i>. Edited Matthew J. Bruccoli & Margaret </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">Duggan, (Random House, 1980). 113.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">[2] Ted Hughes. <i>Winter Pollen</i>. (Faber & Faber, 1994). 458 - 464.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">[1] The Romans quaffed celebratory wine prepared from rose and violet petals and honey.<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><i>a</i></span> </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Thirteenth century apothecaries sold crystalised violets, roses and lilies to be steeped in sweet hot water as a laxative. Violet flavoured candies were sold in decorated tins in Paris since the nineteenth century and also dusted on pastries as sugar crystals.<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><i>b</i></span> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">[2] <span style="font-size: x-small;">I love no meat but Ortolans, and no women but you. Tho indeed that's no proper comparison but for fatt Dutchesses; For to love you is as if one should wish to Eat Angels, or drink Cherubim-Broath.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">[3] Proclus (412 – 485), one of the last of the Neoplatonist philosophers and commentator on Plato writes ‘…the heliotrope follows in its movement the movement of the sun and the selenotrope the movement of the moon, forming a procession within the limits of their power, behind the torches of the universe? For, in truth, each thing prays according to the rank it occupies in nature, and sings the praise of the leader of the divine series to which it belongs, a spiritual or rational or physical or sensuous praise; for the heliotrope moves to the extent that it is free to move, and in its rotation, if we could hear the sound of the air buffeted by its movement, we should be aware that it is a hymn to its king, such as it is within the power of a plant to sing.’ </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> ‘On earth suns and moons can be seen in an earthly state and in the heavens all the plants, stones, animals in a heavenly state, living spiritually.’</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> ‘…the </span><i style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;">lotus</i><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> manifests its affinity and sympathy with the sun. Before the appearance of the sun’s rays, its blossom is closed; it opens slowly at sunrise, unfolds as the sun rises to the zenith, and folds again and closes as the sun descends. What difference is there between the human manner of praising the sun by moving the mouth and lips, and that of the lotus which unfolds its petals? They are its lips and this is its natural hymn.’</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">It is written in </span><i style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;">The Holy Quran</i><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> that the seven heavens, the earth, the sun, the moon, the stars, the mountains, the trees, the beasts, the birds with their wings outspread in rows and many among humankind glorify God, all knowing their individual mode of praise and glorification:</span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: xx-small;"><i>c</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">I would comment that when first built the mosque of the Prophet ﷺ had no <i>minbar</i> [pulpit] from which to address the congregation. He would speak while leaning against a palm tree trunk in the wall next to the <i>qibla</i> near where he prayed. Eventually he began to use a <i>minbar</i>, as we will explain in its proper place. As he moved over towards it to make his address from it and passed by that tree trunk, it moaned like a love-lorne camel because it had always heard his speeches delivered near itself. And so the Prophet ﷺ returned to it and hugged it until it settled down, just like a baby, and became quiet. Details of this will be given hereafter through various lines, from Sahl b. Sa'd al-Sa’idi, Jabir, 'Abd Allāh b. Umar, 'Abd Allāh b. 'Abbās, Anas b. Mālik and Umm Salama, God be pleased with them.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;"> What more appropriate than the comment made by al-Hasan al-Basri after relating this story, from Anas b. Mālik, "O </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Muslims! A piece of wood so pining for the Messenger of God ﷺ! Do not men hoping to meet him have even more right </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">to yearn for him?"</span></span></span></div>
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[4] <span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">"Are you there, Little Daughter?"
they called, "Twii! Twii! Are you there?" "Yes, robins",
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here".</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">"Do come back, Little
Daughter", they pleaded, "the … [whole] world is so sad without you …
Do </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">come
back, Little Daughter, … the tall trees have lost all their leaves, so hard
have they wept.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">The birds sing </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">no
more.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">No one knows where the daisies
have vanished, and [even the] Great Sun is so sad that he rises later </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">every
morning and leaves us earlier every night.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">
</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">Sometimes he hides his face for days behind the clouds and if </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">you
do not return, Little Daughter, he may never come again".</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">"Chut! I will come", whispered
Little Daughter, </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">"but
I will come as a flower as tiny as a drop, and as white as the snow so that
Queen Winter cannot see me". </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">And
Snow-Drop grew out of the snow but everyone knew it was Great Sun’s Little
Daughter.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">They whispered </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">it
to each other when Winter was not about.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">
</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">And new leaves grew on the branches again, and very shyly the </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">birds
sang again, and Great Sun smiled again as never before, and he woke earlier
every morning and went to </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">sleep
later every night for his little daughter was found and all the big big world was
happy once again.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">Noor Inayat Khan.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;"><i>Twenty </i></span><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 10pt;">Jataka Tales</i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">(1939).</span> </blockquote><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dxtINZ4mWfXWFtdP3dAnVAxD778diUWuY8EIT9AxFEak0T_lECTFl7KgyYyYDgm78-M1mETNuFy-4KwATkRFw' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><i>a</i></span></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;"> S</span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">ee the </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>Apicius. </i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: xx-small;"><i>b</i></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;"> See </span><a href="http://www.stephanielacava.com/" style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: small;">Stephanie LaCava</a><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">. </span><i style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: small;">An Extraordinary Theory of Objects. </i><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">(HarperCollins, 2012).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><i>c</i></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> <i>The Holy Quran</i>. Al-Hajj [The Pilgrimage]: 19, Al-Nur [The Light]: 42.</span></span></div>
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<a href="http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/english-and-drama/2013/10/rediscovered-the-earliest-recording-of-ted-hughes.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">Rediscovered: the earliest recording of Ted Hughes?</span></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://soundcloud.com/poempleasurables/ted-hughes-reads-john-clare" target="_blank">Ted Hughes reads John Clare's 'Nightingale's Nest'</a>, (Westminster Abbey, 1989).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/hay-festival/10068886/Hay-Festival-archive-Ted-Hughes-1996.html" target="_blank">Ted Hughes at the Hay Festival</a>, (30 May 1996). A list of all the poems read can be found <a href="http://www.scribd.com/fullscreen/160350052/Hughes-at-the-Hay-Festival-1996?secret_password=293ppyamx30w4gh8dqfx" target="_blank">here</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/atoz/thinkingaloud/podcasts/hughes.m4v" target="_blank">Interview</a> with Professor Jonathan Bate about his forthcoming biography <i>Ted Hughes: The Inner Life, </i>(February, 2012).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">Jonathan Bate: <a href="http://jonathanbate.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/hughes-plath.html" target="_blank">'Hughes & Plath'</a>, (9 February 2014).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2593031/Row-Ted-Hughes-love-life-Oxford-academic-planning-no-holds-barred-biography-clashes-poets-widow-uncovered-previously-unseen-material.html" target="_blank">Row over Ted Hughes' love life after Oxford academic planning no-holds-barred biography clashes with<span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"> </span></span>poet's widow when he uncovered previously unseen material</a>, (<i>Daily Mail</i>, 31 March 2014).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/mar/31/ted-hughes-estate-biographer-jonathan-bate-access" target="_blank">Ted Hughes' estate withdraws biographer's access</a>, (<i>The Guardian</i>, 31 March 2014).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">Jonathan Bate:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/apr/02/ted-hughes-biography-jonathan-bate-access" target="_blank">How the actions of the Ted Hughes estate will change my biography</a>, (<i>The Guardian</i>, 2 April 2014).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/apr/03/letter-ted-hughes-estate-withdrew-biographer-access" target="_blank">Damon Parker (on behalf of Carol Hughes)</a>, (<i>The Guardian</i>, 3 April 2014).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">Frieda Hughes: <i><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-27377434" target="_blank">Why I became a councellor</a></i>, (<i>BBC</i>, 13 May 2014).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">Friday Hughes: <i><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01yjjc0" target="_blank">The Trouble With Death</a></i>, (<i>BBC</i>, 13 May 2014).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/sep/27/ted-hughes-lover-night-sylvia-plath-died-biography-claims" style="font-family: times, 'times new roman', serif;" target="_blank">Ted Hughes poem 'inspired by row with Sylvia Plath shortly before she died'</a><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">, (</span><i style="font-family: times, 'times new roman', serif;">The Guardian</i><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">, 27 September 2015).</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">Jonathan Bate: <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/oct/01/did-sylvia-plath-final-suicide-note-name-final-lover" target="_blank">Sylvia Plath's suicide note - did it name a final lover?</a>, (<i>The Guardian</i>, 1 October 2015).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/news/sir-jonathan-bate-on-his-controversial-new-biography-about-poet-ted-hughes-a6678591.html" target="_blank">Sir Jonathan Bate on his controversial new biography about poet Ted Hughes</a>, (<i>The Independent</i>, 3 October 2015).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/what-to-read/ted-hughes-jonathan-bate-review" target="_blank">Review by Jeremy Noel-Tod</a>, (<i>The Telegraph</i>, 4 October 2015).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06fn26t#playt=0h00m43s" target="_blank">Front Row</a>, (<i>BBC: Radio 4</i>, 7 October 2015).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.npr.org/2015/10/10/447156705/sylvia-plaths-husband-ted-hughes-lived-a-life-of-poetry-and-tragedy" target="_blank">Interview</a>: Sy</span><span style="font-size: x-small;">lvia Plath's Husband, Ted Hughes, Lived A Life Of Poetry And Tragedy, (<i>NPR Books</i>, 10 October 2015).</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;"><i><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCVciE4tmyI" target="_blank">Ted Hughes: Stronger Than Death</a></i>, (</span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">Featuring Frieda Hughes, </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">Melvyn Bragg & Simon Armitage. <i>BBC</i>, 2015)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.startribune.com/review-ted-hughes-the-unauthorised-life-by-jonathan-bate/332390152" target="_blank">Book Review</a> by Carl Rollyson author of <i><a href="http://www.carlrollyson.com/_i_american_isis__the_life_and_art_of_sylvia_plath__i__115155.htm" target="_blank">American Isis: The Life & Art of Sylvia Plath</a></i>, (<i>Star Tribune</i>, 16 October 2015).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://blogs.new.spectator.co.uk/2015/10/ted-hughess-estate-squares-up-to-poets-unauthorised-biographer" target="_blank">Statement</a> from the Ted Hughes Estate, (<i>The Spectator</i>, 14 October 2015).</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">Book Review - <a href="http://www.kirkcenter.org/index.php/bookman/article/the-deauthorised-life-of-ted-hughes" target="_blank">'The Deauthorised Life of Ted Hughes'</a> by Carl Rollyson, (<i>The University Bookman</i>).</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">Erica Wagner: <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/oct/16/ted-hughes-sylvia-plath-biography-widow-truth" target="_blank">Gossip, truth & the impossibility of biography</a>, (<i>The Guardian</i>, 16 October 2015).</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;"><i><a href="http://archive.org/download/ProfessorJonathanBateInterviewedOnToday/Professor%20Jonathan%20Bate%20interviewed%20on%20Today.pdf" target="_blank">Today</a></i>, (<i>BBC: Radio 4</i>, 16 October 2015).</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://torch.ox.ac.uk/ted-hughes-video" target="_blank">TORCH Discussion</a>, (16 October 2015).</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/oct/26/there-is-no-reason-to-doubt-sylvia-plath-word" target="_blank">Letter</a> - Jonathan Bate: There is no reason to doubt Sylvia Plath's word, (<i>The Guardian</i>, 26 October 2015).</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0368z8p" target="_blank"><i>The World at One</i> with Martha Kearney</a>, (<i>BBC: Radio 4</i>, 27 October 2015).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://ann.skea.com/Bate%20Biography.htm" target="_blank">Book Review</a> by <a href="http://ann.skea.com/" target="_blank">Ann Skea</a>: 'Telling Tales', (October 2015).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Frieda Hughes - </span></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;"><i><a href="http://www.bloodaxebooks.com/ecs/product/alternative-values-296" target="_blank">Alternative Values: Poems & Paintings</a></i>, (2015).</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/authors/frieda-hughes" style="font-family: times, 'times new roman', serif;" target="_blank">Interview</a><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">, (</span><i style="font-family: times, 'times new roman', serif;">The Telegraph</i><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">, 31 October 2015).</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/27/books/review/ted-hughes-the-unauthorised-life-by-jonathan-bate.html" target="_blank">Review</a>, (<i>New York Times</i>, 21 December 2015).</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">Janet Malcolm: <a href="http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2016/02/11/ted-hughes-very-sadistic-man" target="_blank">'A Very Sadistic Man'</a>, <i>(New York Review of Books</i>, 11 February 2016).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">Bridget Reed on Malcolm's Review: <a href="http://lithub.com/janet-malcolm-biased-mean-and-brilliant" target="_blank">'Janet Malcolm: Biased, Mean & Brilliant'</a>, (<i>Literary Hub</i>, 26 January 2016).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://ia601501.us.archive.org/8/items/JonathanBateHughesBiogReviewDavidTroupes_201602/Jonathan%20Bate%20Hughes%20biog%20review%20-%20David%20Troupes.pdf" target="_blank">David Troupes's Review</a>, (<i>PN Review</i>, Jan/Feb 2016).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://poetrysociety.org.uk/publications-section/the-poetry-review/book-review-jonathan-bate-ted-hughes-the-unauthorised-life" target="_blank">Review</a>, (<i>The Poetry Review</i>, Winter 2015).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">Christopher Benfey, <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/01/getting-over-sylvia-plath/419091" target="_blank">'Getting Over Sylvia Plath'</a>, (<i>The Atlantic</i>, Jan/Feb 2016).</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9176295151534266097.post-36056245818232053952014-08-01T04:42:00.003-07:002018-06-14T11:05:33.503-07:00From the Chaucer of Urdu Poetry: Mir Taqi Mir<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The scene of desolation filled my eyes with tears and my mind with the most solemn thoughts. At every step my distress and agitation increased. I could not recognise the houses and often lost my bearings. Of the former inhabitants there was no trace, and no matter whom I inquired about, I was told that he was not there and nobody knew where he might be found. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Houses had collapsed. Walls had fallen down. The cloisters were bereft of Sufis. The taverns were empty of revelers. It was a wasteland, from one end to the other. What can I say about the rascally boys of the bazaar when there was no bazaar itself! And what can I tell of the pale-cheeked children playing in the streets when there was no [rosy-cheeked one to ask]. The handsome young men had passed away. The austere old men - All had gone. The palace quarters were wholly ruined, their lanes were lost in the rubble. Every place was desolate; there was no sign of a human anywhere.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Suddenly I found myself in the neighbourhood where I had lived - where I gathered my friends and recited verses; where I lived the life of love and cried many a night for the love of tall and slender beloveds and sang high their praises in verses to them; where I spent time with the beauties whose long tresses held me captive. If I were without them for even a moment I would pine for them restlessly. This was in the days when I arranged joyous gatherings and invited beautiful people, feasted them and lived a really [pleasant] life. And now? Not a soul I could recognise to spend a few convenient moments with in conversation. The bazaar was a desolate waste; the lane was a track into [the] wilderness. I stood there and looked in amazement, stunned and silent and was horrified and filled with abhorrence at the scene. I swore I would never return to the city again, as long as I lived. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Mornings and evenings I went to the bank of the river and enjoyed the sights. Such a beautiful place - with gardens on one side and the fort and the establishments of great nobles on the other, you would say it was a river in paradise. The fame of my <i>bikr tarāshi</i> poetic genius [the creation of a new poetic theme or a bundling of associative ideas] had spread far and wide. Bashful beauties and those who had thick black eyelashes; those who coined fine phrases and those who dressed elegantly; and those who had a gift for poesy - they never left me alone and treated me with great respect. 2 or 3 times I walked through the city from one end to the other meeting its scholars Sufis and poets but none could comfort my restless heart. I said to myself 'Great God! This is the same city that had its fair share of fine houses and gardens and inns, scholars of <i>Hadith</i>; dervishes; Quran-memorizers; Quran-reciters; <i>Imams</i> of mosques and <i>Muezzins</i>, abodes of <i>Faqirs</i>, schools and seminaries and where scholars and jurists, dialecticians, philosophers, divines and gnostics, saints and mystics, physicians and teachers and poets and writers were often seen in every place. But now I find no place to sit and rest a while and I find not a single person whose company I may share.' I saw a terrifying wasteland. And so I grieved deeply and returned after having spent 4 months in the city of my origin. I left with my eyes awash with tears of longing and reached the forts of Suraj Mal.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">When they entered Lucknow, his permanent abode, and took residence in the royal palace, new carpets of manifold hues were laid out every day, with golden incense-burners placed on their corners. The area surrounding the house was sprinkled with rose water, and attar was rubbed in the beds. Everyone's clothes were fragrant with perfume. Velveteen carpets [were spread out] such as none had ever stepped upon. Walls glittered like silver [<i>sīm gil karda</i>]. Elegant pavilions were set up in gardens and decorated with screens and curtains. The sweet smell of amber spread everywhere, creating a unique effect. The houses put to shame the homes for spring [<i>makān giraw az bahār band burda</i>]. Roasted almonds and pistachios and firangi tidbits [<i>nuql e firangī</i>] were laid out for munching. At night, there were dances by women who were like fairies - nay, who were like the <i>houris</i> of paradise. Flower vases of crystal and porcelain were carefully arranged. Shelves and niches in the walls were filled with choice fruit, perfectly ripe. A <i>firangi</i> [<i>raqŝ e firnachī</i>] dance was held, a lovely scene - a house of joy. In the evening, they had elaborate illuminations and set off fireworks. The starbursts and rockets [<i>sitāra</i>; <i>havāi</i>] touched the sky. The sight of the illuminations stole the hearts [of the spectators]. The flares [<i>mahtābi</i>] turned the night into day. A pavilion of gold brocade was set up - of such beauty that not even the sun had seen its like. The nobles were busy, offering hospitality; the <i>rajas</i> went about, offering their services. Excellent poets sang their praises. Young stalwarts stood by to tend to things. Every house was finely prepared, with shady nooks and channels of flowing water. Vases that held bunches of narcissus flowers seemed like a garden to behold [<i>bāgh e naẓar</i>] in Isfahan, or a garden in Kerman, containing a large lake. Ice, more pleasing to the sight than molten silver, carefully gathered from water. Bowls of <i>fāluda</i> of many colours and kinds, their sherbet sweeter than the syrup of life.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">As for the types of breads at meal times; almond bread [<i>nān e bādām</i>] of utmost delicacy; <i>shīrmāl</i> and <i>bāqar khāni</i> both coloured with saffron on top that would put the sun to shame; youthful bread [<i>nān e javān</i>], so soft and warm that if an old man were to eat it he would act like a youth; paper bread [<i>nān e varaqī</i>]of such a quality that I could fill a whole book with its praises; ginger bread [<i>nān e zanjabīl</i>] too, so flavourful that Taste itself grows happy comprehending it. In the middle were placed varieties of <i>qaliya</i> and <i>do-piyaza</i>, such rich stews of different kinds that the guests were all delighted and satisfied. And the kebabs that were laid out on the long table-cloth: flower kebab [<i>kebāb e gul</i>], full of bloom and flavour; perfectly salted Indian kebab [<i>kebāb e Hindī</i>] stole every heart; Qandahari kebab [<i>kebāb e Qandahārī</i>] attracted all and sundry to itself; stone kebab [<i>kebāb e sang</i>] brought relief to those who were tired from the hardships of the journey; leaf-of-paper kebab [<i>kebāb e varaqī</i>] made to such an amazing recipe-manuscript that it delighted everyone; and all the more common kebabs, spicy and flavourful. 10 large plates of food were placed before every single guest. Then there were <i>pulaos</i> of all kinds and wonderful soups of every type. 'Praise be to One, who is Bountiful and Generous!' </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">What a splendid guest! What an exemplary host! A grand guest; a glorious host. A guest of wonderful disposition; a host of the greatest eminence. A guest, so refined and elegant; a host, sun-like in his munificence. The guest, a man of perfect sagacity; the host, an embodiment of hospitality. Their likes had never been seen by the eyes of ages, nor heard of by the ears of sages. In that manner they continued to meet for 6 months, day and night, and conversed and exchanged thoughts.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">In short, the world is a place of strange happenings. What houses there were that crumbled down! What young men there were who gave up their lives! What gardens there were that are now a wilderness! What joyous assemblies there were that now seem a fantasy! What flowers, that withered away! What handsome men who passed away! What gatherings of friends, that were tossed to the wind! What caravans, that loaded up and disappeared! What honourable men there were who suffered ignominy! What bold men there were who tasted mortality! I have had eyes to see, and ears to hear, and what things have I not seen and heard! In this brief span of life this drop of blood which men call the heart has suffered all manner of blows, and is all bruised and bleeding. My temperament was unsuited to these times, and I no longer mix with people. I am 60 now, and old age is upon me. I am generally ill, and for some time my eyes have been troubling me .... My failing powers, my sensitiveness, my weakness and grief and despondency, all tell me that my end is near, and the truth is that the times are no longer fit to live in. it is time to withdraw from the world. I wish that I may come to a good end, but God's will must prevail</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">This page will be updated as more material becomes available during 2013, the fiftieth anniversary of the death of the poet Sylvia Plath.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><a href="http://www.harpercollins.com/harperimages/isbn/large/8/9780062085498.jpg" target="_blank">Pain, Parties, Work: Sylvia Plath in New York, Summer 1953</a></i>.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Elizabeth Winder. <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jean-fain-licsw-msw/sylvia-plath_b_2944939.html" target="_blank">On Plath's Food & Body Issues</a>.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><a href="http://ann.skea.com/Arielindex.html" target="_blank">Sylvia Plath's Ariel & the Tarot</a></i>. Ann Skea.[1]</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Interviews: <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2013/jan/18/olwyn-hughes-sylvia-plath-literary-executor" target="_blank">Olwyn Hughe</a><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2013/jan/18/olwyn-hughes-sylvia-plath-literary-executor" target="_blank">s</a> (sister in-law and Plath's Literary Executor), <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2013/jan/18/elizabeth-sigmund-bell-jar-sylvia-plath" target="_blank">Elizabeth Sigmund</a> (friend and dedicatee of <i>The Bell Jar</i>).</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">'Bald Glyphs & Psychic Maps: An Examination of Sylvia Plath's 'Sheep in Fog'. Rehan Qayoom. (<a href="http://www.iun.edu/~nwadmin/plath/vol6" style="font-style: italic;" target="_blank">Plath Profiles 6</a>). [2]</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://noeltanti.com/2013/01/08/sylvia-plath-mini-blogathon" target="_blank">Sylvia Plath Mini Blogathon</a>.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QM6_GqVWjA" target="_blank">1963 - The Big Freeze</a></i>. (BBC, 1963, 2013).</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/carl-rollyson/sylvia-plath-photos-_b_2648814.html" target="_blank">'What You Don't Know About Sylvia Plath'</a>. Carl Rollyson, (<i>The Huffington Post US</i>, 11 February 2013).</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p0141tfv/Witness_The_Last_Days_of_Sylvia_Plath" target="_blank"><i>The Last Days of Sylvia Plath</i></a>, (BBC, February 2013).</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Andrew Wilson on Plath Behind the Glass, <a href="http://www.interviewmagazine.com/culture/sylvia-plath-mad-girls-love-song" target="_blank"><i>Interview</i></a>. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/booksandartsdaily/50th-anniversary-of-syliva-plath27s-death/4511510" target="_blank">The Legacy of Sylvia Plath</a>:Interview with Carl Rollyson & Peter K. Steinberg, (<i>ABC</i>, 11 February 2013). </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.newstalk.ie/Sylvia-Plath-had-literally-hundreds-of-lovers-" target="_blank">Sylvia Plath had "literally hundreds of lovers"</a>, (<i>Newstalk</i>, 20 February 2013).</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.rte.ie/radio/radioplayer/rteradiowebpage.html#type=radio&rii=9%3A20155408%3A133%3A14%2D02%2D2013%3A" target="_blank">Today with Pat Kenny</a>, (<i>RT</i><span style="font-weight: normal;"><i>É</i>, 14 February 2013).</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2013/02/there-are-almost-no-obituaries-for-sylvia-plath/273032" target="_blank">'There Are Almost No Obituaries For Sylvia Plath'</a>, (Interview with Plath Scholar Peter K. Steinberg).</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.ustream.tv/channel/theplathdiaries" target="_blank">Sylvia Plath: A 50-Year Retrospective</a>, commemoration in Ireland, (University of Ulster).</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/23365" target="_blank">'What Sylvia Plath Love</a><a href="http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/23365" target="_blank">d'</a>, (The Academy of American Poets).</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://snd.sc/11tJINj" target="_blank">'Arts Extra: Sylvia Plath'</a>. Maeve O'Brien, (BBC Radio Ulster, February 2013). </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.sylviaplath.info/documents/Wilson_Searching_for_Sylvia_Sunday_Times_2013_02_17.pdf" target="_blank">Searching For Sylvia</a>, (<i>Sunday Times</i>, 20 February 2013). </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2013/apr/11/sylvia-plath-all-star-tribute-ariel" target="_blank">'Sylvia Plath gets all-star tribute for <i>Ariel</i> Anniversary'</a>, (<i>The Guardian</i>, 11 April 2013).</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.themillions.com/2013/04/when-sylvia-was-a-millie-an-interview-with-elizabeth-winder.html" target="_blank">'When Sylvia Was A Millie: An Interview With Elizabeth Winder'</a>, (<i>The Millions</i>, 16 April 2013).</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/elizabeth-winder-/sylvia-plaths-new-york-ph_b_3094143.html" target="_blank">Sylvia Plath's New York</a>, (<i>Huffington Post</i>,16 April 2013). </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/elizabeth-winder-/sylvia-plaths-new-york-ph_b_3094143.html" target="_blank">'Book Corner: Sylvia Plath, Party Girl?'</a>. Elizabeth Winder, (<i>Harper's Bazaar</i>, 17 April 2013).</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.wwd.com/eye/people/author-elizabeth-winder-writes-of-sylvia-plaths-intern-summer-6896036" target="_blank">'Author Elizabeth Winder Writes of Sylvia Plath's Intern Summer'</a>, (<i>Women's Wear Daily</i>, 17 April 2013). </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://gaithersburgbookfestival.org/qa-with-elizabeth-winder" target="_blank">Q & A with Elizabeth Winder</a>, (Gaithersburg Book Festival, 18 May 2013). </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Frieda Hughes: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.186336521525946.1073741829.175709842588614" target="_blank">Jospehine Hart Poetry Hour</a>, (10 June 2013). </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://alovelybeing.com/journal/when-i-discovered-elizabeth-winderrsquos-first-book.html" target="_blank">Behind the Curtain - Elizabeth Winder</a>, (<i>A Lovely Being</i>, 27 June 2013).</span><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://entertainment.time.com/2013/07/01/sylvia-plaths-daughter-on-a-remarkable-trove-of-her-mothers-drawings" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Sylvia Plath’s Daughter on a Remarkable Trove of Her Mother’s Drawings</span></a>. (<i>Time</i>, 1 July 2013). </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.dailypress.com/news/york-county/dp-tsq-ypq-cp-plath-book-0725-20130725,0,5402600.story" target="_blank">New book examines New York summer for in-depth look at Sylvia Plath</a>, (Daily Press, 25 July 2013). </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/magazine/article3847212.ece" target="_blank">'Sylvia Plath's unseen drawings'</a>. Frieda Hughes. (<i>The Times</i>, 24 August 2013). </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/you/article-2422115/Poet-painter-Frieda-Hughes-daughter-Sylvia-Plath-Ted-Hughes-shares-family-treasures-keepsakes.html" target="_blank">'Frieda Hughes shares her family treasures & keepsakes'</a>, (<i>Daily Mail</i>, 22 September 2013).</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Elizabeth Winder, (<a href="http://theaesthete.com/story/view.dT/sylvia-plaths-summer-of-1953" target="_blank"><i>The Aesthete</i></a>). </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.azcentral.com/php-bin/commphotos/show.php?colid=26733" target="_blank">Elizabeth Winder Discusses Sylvia Plath in Fashion</a>, (Phoenix Art Museum: 11 October). </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://newbooksinpoetry.com/crossposts/elizabeth-winder-pain-parties-work-sylvia-plath-in-new-york-summer-1953-harper-2013" target="_blank">Interview</a>: Elizabeth Winder, (New Books Network, 18 October 2003). </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://blog.zolabooks.com/elizabeth-winder-pain-parties-work-qa/" target="_blank">Elizabeth Winder: The Sylvia Plath Clich</a></span></span><span style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://blog.zolabooks.com/elizabeth-winder-pain-parties-work-qa/" target="_blank">é</a>, (<i>Zola Books</i>, 25 October 2013).</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.547572615326191.1073741827.346457182104403" target="_blank">Talk</a>: Elizabeth Winder, (Melrose Public Library, 26 October 2013).</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://people.clas.ufl.edu/mbryant/2014/01/01/revisiting-plath-and-her-cultural-afterlife-at-50" target="_blank">Revisiting Plath & Her Cultural Afterlife At 50</a>.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/embed/watch?v=uD2kvYhP4Xc" target="_blank">Book Marc: Elizabeth Winder</a>.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Related Links: <a href="http://www.sylviaplath.info/" target="_blank">A Celebration, this is</a>. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"> <a href="http://theplathdiaries.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">The Plath Diaries - a PhD Blog</a>. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"> Rehan Qayoom, <a href="http://www.academia.edu/7388919/Beautiful_beautiful_America_On_Ted_Hughes_Birthday_Letters" target="_blank">'Beautiful, beautiful America!' - On Ted Hughes' <i>Birthday Letters</i></a>.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"> <a href="http://rehanqayoompoet.blogspot.co.uk/2011/12/ted-hughes-commemoration-in-poets.html" target="_blank">Ted Hughes Commemoration in Poet's Corner</a>.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">[1] Ann Skea's works on Ted Hughes include <a href="http://ann.skea.com/PoetQest.htm" target="_blank"><i>Ted Hughes: The Poetic Quest</i></a>, (University of New England, 1994)<i>, Poetry & </i></span></span><br />
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Analysis of Ted Hughes' Use of Tarot & Cabbala in</i> <a href="http://ann.skea.com/AdamHome.html" target="_blank"><i>'Adam & the Sacred Nine'</i></a><i>,</i> <a href="http://ann.skea.com/CapriccioHome.htm" target="_blank"><i>'Capriccio'</i></a> &<i> <a href="http://ann.skea.com/BLCabala.htm" target="_blank">B</a><a href="http://ann.skea.com/BLCabala.htm" target="_blank">irthday </a></i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i> Letters'</i> and <a href="http://www.thetedhughessociety.org/thegoddess.htm" target="_blank">'Ted Hughes & the Goddess'</a>.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">[2] <i>Plath Profiles 6</i> features major essays including <span style="line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">'These Ghostly Archives 5: Reanimating the Past' by Gail Crowther </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px; text-align: left;"> & <a href="http://www.sylviaplath.info/" target="_blank">Peter K. Steinberg</a>, w</span><span style="line-height: 18px; text-align: start;">orks by <a href="http://theplathdiaries.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">Maeve O' Brien</a>, </span><span style="line-height: 18px; text-align: start;">'The Smoke & Mirrors of "The Couriers" by </span><a href="http://www.nighttimes.com/" target="_blank">Julia Gordon-</a></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"> <a href="http://www.nighttimes.com/" target="_blank">Bramer</a>, <span style="line-height: 18px; text-align: start;">'The Right Mind of Sylvia Plath: Magic, Myth & Metamorphosis' by </span><a href="http://www.carolebrooksplatt.com/" target="_blank">Carole Brooks Platt</a>. <span style="line-height: 18px; text-align: start;">Reviews of </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/embed/2NZRFduMqQ8" target="_blank">'The Night I Saw Diamonds'</a>, (February 2013). </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> 'A Retrospective Appraisal of <i><a href="http://www.hollacemetzger.com/3volve" target="_blank">3VOΓVE</a>'</i>.</span><br />
<a href="http://rehanqayoompoet.blogspot.co.uk/2011/06/thoughts-on-eternal-story-by-hollace-m.html" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: center;" target="_blank">Thoughts on <i>Eternal Story</i> by Hollace M. Metzger</a><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: center;">.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i><a href="http://www.alislam.org/library/browse/volume/Ruhani_Khazain_Computerised/?l=Urdu&p=12#page/251/mode/1up" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Tohfa e Qeysariyya</a></i> [<a href="http://www.alislam.org/library/books/Gift-for-Queen.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><i>A Gift for the Queen</i></a>]. (Ziyaul Islam, 1897. English: Islam International Publications Ltd, 2012). By <a href="http://www.alislam.org/topics/messiah/index.php" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad</a>.<br /><i><a href="http://www.alislam.org/library/browse/volume/Ruhani_Khazain_Computerised/?l=Urdu&p=15#!page/109" target="_blank">Sitara e Qeysarra</a></i> [<i><a href="http://www.alislam.org/library/books/Star-of-the-Empress.pdf" target="_blank">The Star of the Empress</a></i>]. (Ziyaul Islam, 1899).</span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9176295151534266097.post-82733600928659415692012-01-02T10:05:00.000-08:002015-05-17T10:48:31.575-07:00Game Royale.<div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">"By the way if ever you want to ride, just let Lynch know and he'll sort it out for you."</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">"Oh, Papa, Cousin Matthew doesn't ride."</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">"I ride."</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">"And do you hunt?"</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">"No I don't hunt."</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">"I dare say there's not much opportunity in Manchester."</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">"Are you a hunting family?"</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">"Families like ours are always hunting families."</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">"Not always. Billy Skelton won't have them on his land."</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">"But all the Skeltons are mad."</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">"Do you hunt?"</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">"Occasionally. I suppose you're more interested in books than country sports."</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">"I probably am. You'll tell me that's rather unhealthy."</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">"Not unhealthy. Just unusual. Among our kind of people."</span></div>
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O for "illicit" venison, I side with Alexander Pope's verse about preferring a rogue with it 'to a saint without.' Pope liked his 'ven'son'. His letters often mention dining on friendly venison with quite some relish (which about 70 years ago would have contravened rule 47b of the Emergency Butchery Act). Do you fancy the haunch yourself, or "half an 'aunch" (quoth Phoebe in <i>Goodnight Sweetheart: London Pride</i>)? Or would you prefer pheasant? In India there is a traditional succulent curry prepared from the freshly-hunted leg meat and pheasant together. Enjoy these biting lines from Pope's 'Epistle To Allen Bathurst: <i>Of the</i> Use <i>of</i> Riches':</div>
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To live on ven'son when it sold so dear.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">
Ask you why Phryne the whole Auction buys?</span><br /><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">
Phryne foresees a General Excise,</span><br /><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">
Why she and Sappho raise that monstrous sum?</span><br /><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">Walking past the <a href="http://www.parliament.uk/" target="_blank">Houses of Parliament </a>I saw the Home Secretary Theresa May coming out in her car. The abbey always looks really awesome in the floodlight. I entered through the arch and the East Cloisters which were really dark and atmospheric. It was quite an experience walking through the dimly lit cloisters with tombstones on the floor until I reached an area that had been cordoned off where people gathered slowly. A glance upon the floor revealed a tombstone marked Aphra Behn, the Restoration dramatist. I spotted Simon Armitage and got up from where I was sitting upon the stone benches along the walls to talk to him about his work on 'Sir Gawain & the Green Knight' and its relation to the eighteenth chapter of <i>The Holy Quran</i> but then changed my mind and sat back down thinking, perhaps, that this was not the occasion for such talk. As always everybody always knows each other or seems to, so I have a habit of taking out my book to read. I read a bit of <i>Pablo Neruda: A Passion for Life</i> by Adam Feinstein before we were ushered in through a door leading to <a href="http://www.westminster-abbey.org/visit-us/highlights/poets-corner" target="_blank">Poets' Corner</a>. There was a lady to my right who asked how or if I had a Hughes connection. I had read Plath first but then really discovered his work at college after <i>Birthday Letters</i> came out. She remarked that she was a librarian at Cambridge University where she had seen him read in the seventies upon which the lady to my left observed that she was from Cambridge too. I spotted Andrew Motion and Hughes' widow Carol dressed beautifully in opal, she laid flowers from the garden at Court Green (their house in Devon). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">Sitting in Poets' Corner among so many countless tombs and memorials to writers, poets, historians and theologians and just being present in Westminster Abbey is always a spiritually uplifting experience. The intensity of historical presence is overpowering. The Urdu poet Parveen Shakir wrote a poem on this sense of being overwhelmed by history in her poem 'Westminster Abbey'. All the seats had the Order of the Service placed upon them. Dr John Hall, the Dean said "We have come to Poets' Corner, where the word is celebrated. Here Geoffrey Chaucer lived and died, and was buried in 1400. Here William Caxton set up his printing press in 1476. Here writing in English and its publication were first achieved."<br />
"Buried here is all that could be buried of Edmund Spenser and John Dryden, Tennyson, and Browning. They are remembered; their words live on." Lord Evans of Temple Guiting read from Hughes' letter to Plath of 1 and 2 October 1956 scientifically arguing in favour of reading aloud. Hughes says that was how all reading was done until the invention of Caxton's press. It is an incredible passage to read. This was followed by a reading of Hughes' poems 'Full Moon and Little Frieda' 'Anniversary' and 'Where I Sit Writing My Letter' by Juliet Stevenson. The acoustics of the abbey offering a resound. Then Heaney who I saw for the first time delivered an address, beginning with a quotation from <i>Beowulf</i> and remarking upon Hughes' natural use of the alliterative Anglo-Saxon meter in, for example, the first line of 'The Thought Fox' and in 'Fern'. But, he said, he did not intend to lecture on Hughes' uses of language and meter. This was followed by him unveiling the memorial stone, Daniel Huws' reading of 'In Memory of Ted Hughes' by the poet R. S. Thomas and Heaney's readings of 'Some Pike for Nicholas' 'For the Duration' 'That Morning'. <br />
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The Order of Service contained some interesting points about Poets' Corner: Chaucer was buried here not because he was a great poet but because he had served as the Clerk of Works to the palace of Westminster, Joseph Addison first referred to 'the poetical quarter' in <i>The Spectator</i> and the first written use of the title that is known was in a poem of 1733 'Upon the Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey'. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">In all about 300 people attended. As everyone walked past the plaque I glanced at the names on the chits upon the chairs, lots of lords and ladies and one 'Mrs T. S. Eliot' who I've never seen and didn't catch this time either. There were refreshments afterwards for those with a blue ticket. I did have 2, one white and one blue but I'm certain it wasn't <i>the</i> blue one so I made my way back. There were carol singers at Westminster station singing 'Ding dong merrily on high':</span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9176295151534266097.post-71990239571953147142011-07-06T00:36:00.000-07:002017-11-13T10:46:22.164-08:00In Memoriam: Morney Wilson<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Morney Shayne Wilson was born on April 3, 1969 in Scotland. She studied at Fortismere School and graduated in English Literature from the University of Sussex. She worked as an administration officer at Middlesex University. Morney's poems featured on several websites before her collection of poems was published as <a href="http://www.scribd.com/fullscreen/59417845?access_key=key-22ylqd9p0g2zkpk2yobv" target="_blank"><i>I Am The Blast From Your Past</i></a>. The singer/songwriter Barry Crawford has set several of her poems to music in albums produced as <a href="http://scontent-bru.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpt1/t31.0-8/s960x960/10338536_652790158174083_1940479686509972580_o.jpg" target="_blank"><i>The Morney Set</i></a> (2008) and <i>Morn </i>(2011), some first included in her posthumous poetry collection <a href="http://www.scribd.com/fullscreen/50728596?access_key=key-60mv52xczrzwmq20v5h" target="_blank"><i>Martyr Doll</i></a>. Her prose has been collected in the volume <a href="http://www.scribd.com/fullscreen/50732775?access_key=key-2ct94r0g76eyulv2fo55" target="_blank"><i>Remains</i></a>, both of these along with a compilation of <i><a href="http://scontent-bru.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc3/v/t1.0-9/523533_447778202008614_444223129_n.jpg?oh=ce7d312740f3b0220ecc95d220a5db16&oe=55E18250" target="_blank">The Recordings</a> </i></span>are being published here for the first time. Morney Wilson died in London in November 2010. 4 of her poems have been published in <a href="http://www.iun.edu/~nwadmin/plath"><i>Plath Profiles 4</i></a>, the interdisciplinary journal for Sylvia Plath studies. She was very excited about their being accepted just before her death:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small; line-height: 115%;">From <a href="http://www.scribd.com/fullscreen/50728596?access_key=key-60mv52xczrzwmq20v5h" target="_blank"><i>Martyr Doll</i></a>. Edited by Rehan Qayoom, (2011).</span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9176295151534266097.post-52131274071281116662011-06-09T18:44:00.002-07:002016-03-20T19:36:54.275-07:00Thoughts on ‘Eternal Story' by Hollace M. Metzger.<blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">If it form the one landscape that we, the inconstant ones,</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Are constantly homesick for, this is chiefly</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Because it dissolves in water.</span> <sup>[1]</sup> </span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Everything to do with Hollace</b> <b>M. Metzger is art, every word she utters transmogrifies itself into poetry so that one cannot help but come back to the work again and again. Like history, it is cyclical. And with this new book; daylight has broken. Her voice and her poems can never tire one. Her paintings are an endless kaleidoscope of labyrinthine meanings and emotions, they are stubbornly direct in conveying their message, in making themselves felt. We are bravely offered, raw and throbbing, the timely truths that can sometimes be problematic, painful, disorderly and ugly and we are shown how all can turn to beauty and joy at a slight change of perspective. They are like the sun which rises and sinks diurnally yet every rising heralds a new dawn. </b></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Can one but help be immersed in Metzger's work and not be dazzled? I read everything cyclically. In dreams of showing an essay I've written of just over a page in red ink. Of mention of my photo-phobia and her asking a class of students to draw the curtains:</b> </span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">I know what you do </span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">when he makes love to you,</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">how he doesn’t like </span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">when you wear your hair up, </span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">But, you shouldn’t worry </span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">because he will never turn away, </span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">leave you or lean my way. </span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">We may touch, but only kiss </span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">in our fantasies while we </span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">share a coffee in silence. </span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Never, in</span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">his wildest dreams, </span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">would he think</span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">of committing himself to me. </span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">It’s too easy.</span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"> <span style="font-size: small;"> ('To the Jealous Girlfriend').</span> <span style="font-size: x-small;">[2]</span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>For me those moments spent in such regal company are of strange and secret whisperings:</b></span></span></h4>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">The surroundings were muted</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">Just for the moment</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">The necks of the winds had been severed from their bodies</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">The heartbeat of the stars had momentarily paused</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">As if the pulse of their very existence had ceased!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">And the receding moments were stilled into fright</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The Iranian poet Ziba Karbassi says that 'The poem is the result of a state of restlessness in the poet's soul which is usually marked by heavy breathings and severe panting before and after the birth of a poem. It is in the poetry of gasp, that we counter eroticism in language.' Breath is life-giving. Sound is created on the out-breath (except in certain African languages which begin some words with an implosion of in-breathed sound): </span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">The sounds that we make depend on where the breath stops on its passage from the lungs to the lips. </span><span style="font-size: x-small; font-weight: normal;">[3]</span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">The Universe is the visible articulation of the Divine 'exhalation' of the All-Compassionate God, blown from a state of latency into outward forms whose love englobes like the breath underlying all sounds: Words are from letters, letters from air, air from the Breath of the Compassionate. Through the names effects appear in the created worlds, and they are the goal of the knowledge of Jesus. Through these words man requires the Presence of the Compassionate to give of Its very Self that which will give life to what was asked for by these words. Thus the order becomes eternally circular. </span><span style="font-size: x-small; font-weight: normal;">[4]</span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">I could write (not talk) endlessly on what a great friend, collaborator, Muse I have in the Beauty and Grace that is Hollace Metzger. One of the chosen few who have made me less unsure without the so-thought necessity of their physical presence whether anyone ever understood my oracles of 'Mule-bray, pig-grunt and bawdy cackles' <span style="font-weight: normal;">[5]</span> and suchlike.</span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Re 'Stalkings' there is no girl (let me <i>tell you</i>) down my street but that doesn't mean I do not dream though they do not do but to</span></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> say this is to be cyclical as all things </span><b style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">ultimately are<span style="font-weight: normal;">. </span></b><span data-jsid="text" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-weight: normal;"><b>That is the essential lesson of life, of flux <i>within its continuum</i>.</b> </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small; font-weight: normal;">[6]</span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> I can hear the most sublime music and a beautiful love poem in 'Violin Heart' - "Tomorrow </span><i style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">will</i><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> be okay."</span><b style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b> </b></b></h4>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><b> </b></b></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><b>I have some comments on 'Fame' on a love that dares not name me now that had promised to remember me but now rejects, jilts, reviles even as <i>fa</i></b><b><i>me</i> accompanies that one (now passed around like a wineglass) from place to place, person to person, heart to heart:</b> </b></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Forgotten</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">in their present state,</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">my possessions</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">have been diminished</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">to people as memories</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">and this pen</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">corroding that which</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">was left unspoken.</span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>This is literally so in my case at present. Soon, soon I shall corrode what 'was left unspoken' into blogs that are left like dream-letters on doorsteps albeit:</b> </span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now.</span></span></h4>
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</span><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"> Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come.</span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span><span style="font-size: small;"> <span style="font-weight: normal;">He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, and shall shew it unto you.</span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"> All things that the Father hath are mine: therefore said I, that he shall take of mine, and shall shew it unto you. </span><span style="font-size: x-small; font-weight: normal;">[7]</span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The 'Prithee' in '© Facebook' reminds me of some lines I translated once into my poem 'Catullus in London' via some lines of Keats.</span> <span style="font-size: x-small; font-weight: normal;">[8]</span> <span style="font-size: small;">They are:</span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">'Yours the rhyme in every line, my Muse</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Sweetheart, be my Valentine, my Muse</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Show how your dimpling kisses warm the waders</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-weight: normal;">Lesbia irenic, earnest, tell the riaders</span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Tomorrow’s autumns of delations and</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Noyades the unrepentant thieves command</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Cadaverous faces in the cancerous gloom</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Our thousand thousand more and more will bloom’ <span style="font-size: x-small;">[9]</span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>My thoughts on 'AND/RE' make me think of the second song from Tagore's Nobel prize winning <i>Gitanjali</i>:</b> </span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">When thou commandest me to sing it seems that my heart would break with pride; and I look to thy face, and tears come to my eyes.</span></span></h4>
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</span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> All that is harsh and dissonant in my life melts into one sweet harmony - and my adoration spreads wings like a glad bird on its flight across the sea.</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></span></h4>
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</span><span style="font-size: small;"> <span style="font-weight: normal;">I know thou takest pleasure in my singing. I know that only as a singer I come before thy presence. </span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"> I touch by the edge of the far spreading wing of my song thy feet which I could never aspire to reach. </span></span></h4>
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</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"> <span style="font-size: small;">Drunk with the joy of singing I forget myself and call thee friend who art my lord.</span> <span style="font-size: x-small;">[10]</span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>And of my lines from 'Love is Better Than Wine'</b> </span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">I learn to live with what I've got and just then</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Teeming tears of grief, flaccid pain</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Tell me what I never had and where and when </span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"> My eyes can't contain</span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Light enough to know our days won't return</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">And it feels like I am close to passing out</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Now the wings of tiny little angels burn</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"> What's love all about?</span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Grace me with your Chardonnay kisses tonight</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Scintillating stature in fur coat soused in</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Bathed luminosities and glinting light</span></span></h4>
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</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"> Let our life begin <span style="font-size: x-small;">[11]</span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">If ever again we do see eye to eye</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Some other path will branch out from that point on</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">And hand in hand we will begin the journey</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">In the shadows of your tresses to the movement of your arms</span></span></h4>
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</span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> The other thing is also sorcery for the heart knows</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">There is no turning no desert no spell</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Veiled in which my months can pass</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">If the path of life runs with your thoughts - All is well</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">If you do not turn round to look it doesn't matter </span><sup style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small; font-weight: normal;">[12]</span></sup></span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><b>'First Valentine' is one of the many many amazing poems of Metzger that arouse, cajole, enviegle (rather like the dragon of Communism in Revelations which has been chained up for a millennium and would be unleashed upon the world in the Latter Days before the Apocalypse) into taking notes as I read the wonder words, hear them, re-read them repeatedly. </b>The vivid description of the food, the scene reminiscent of Catullus, one or other of his poems where he describes food with similar relish. <span style="font-weight: normal;">[13] </span>As I read of future partners whose pleasures lie not in love but in fulfilling bloody-minded, narcissistic, nihilistic expectations, in proving things - I think of the first few lines of Donne's 'The Good Morrow':</span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">I wonder by my troth, what thou, and I</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Did, till we loved? were we not wean'd till then,</span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">But suck'd on country pleasures, childishly?</span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Or snorted we in the Seven Sleepers' den?</span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">'Twas so; but this, all pleasures fancies be.</span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">If ever any beauty I did see,</span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">Which I desired, and got, 'twas but a dream of thee. </span><span style="font-size: x-small; font-weight: normal;">[14]</span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Very few writers these days write with such clear beauty, grace, su</b><b>ch lucidity, </b><b>such
purity, none that I can think of, so physically and with such
"sexiness" and I do not read little. It is about all I have done in
these last few decades that may be called my life. The comfort and ease
with which her pen seems to flow and the command and grasp that Metzger
has over subject, meter, rhythm and prosody is of the kind that has been
recognised in Muses (markedly by Ted Hughes in <i>Birthday Letters</i>).
That is to say it is not of the usual kind poets utilise but of the
rare kind of Hardyesque Hawk's Eye envisionings. Not the marginalia or
remains that shock the pious usurper. Compare for example, this:</b> </span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">I
don't, I DON'T want to take a girl out and spend CIRCA £5 when I can
toss off in five minutes, free, and have the rest of the evening to
myself. </span><span style="font-size: x-small; font-weight: normal;">[15]</span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">And you'll see what I'm getting at. </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">I do make love outside of my bedroom: I cannot know exactly what I mean when I say this or what it is to say this, I abandoned Life and Love half-way somewhere to be recollected/picked up (if I can rediscover the place I left them) when/if I ever have somewhere to get to and sail calmly on:</span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Birds claim their territories, talking to one another, and I've accepted that I do not and possibly will never understand them.</span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> (‘Sojournal: Diary of a Fisherwoman in France – Part II’ p 119).</span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">You know Hardy's 'The Darkling Thrush'. He felt the same. Ted Hughes wrote that the whole lure of fishing for him was like the creative act. He would say: </span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">Catching a fish is like writing a poem, a kind of metaphor for the creative act. 'Pike' is very much about that. This idea of pulling something out of the darkness, into the light of consciousness. </span><span style="font-size: x-small; font-weight: normal;">[16]</span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">Metzger has firmly placed her eternal Parisian hand upon the infernal London hearts of many a poet. 'The Hand' falls into a handsome tradition of poets such as Auden who spoke of hands in some of his poems. There are 2 poems by Ted Hughes on hands (in <i>Moortown Diary</i> and in <i>Birthday Letters</i>). There is 'The hand that signed the paper felled a city;' <span style="font-weight: normal;">[17]</span> of Dylan Thomas' poem but that is the Achilles' Heel of hands which permits the lies the robberies the wars the murders. I last held hands a lifetime ago but Betjeman's lines evoke the holding of my hand of one whose prayers stand by my side though he himself could not, when once he held them and gently pressed them as if night would no longer follow us after that evening: </span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Holding hands our two hearts beating i</span><span style="font-weight: normal;">n the bedroom silence round us,</span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Holding hands and hardly hearing s</span><span style="font-weight: normal;">udden footstep, thud and shriek. <span style="font-size: x-small;">[18]</span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Then there is,
of course Keats' living hand 'warm and capable' held yet towards Fanny,
the hand in which Coleridge felt death at their extra-dimensional and
rather bizarre encounter upon Milfield Lane<span style="font-size: small;">. </span></span></b></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><b>The 'Sojournal' entries are <i>the</i> most unfeigned and lucid prose pieces I have read in a very long time, that the world needs for such things as are noticed, recorded, transformed, healed<span style="font-size: small;">.</span></b><b></b></span></h4>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">A (digressive) word to the critics and denigrators: I am thinking of Pope's 'The Dunciad: iv' and these lines:</span></b></span></h4>
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<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Roman and Greek Grammarians! know your better:</span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Author of something yet more great than Letter;</span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">While tow'ring o'er your Alphabet, like Saul,</span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Stands our Digamma, and o'ertops them all.</span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">'Tis true, on Words is still our whole debate,</span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Disputes of Me or Te , of aut or at,</span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">To sound or sink in CANO, O or A,</span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Or give up Cicero to C or K. <span style="font-size: x-small;">[19]</span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>And with that, another of my obscure (read crazy) linkages with his 'An Epistle To The Right Honourable Richard Earl of Burlington' on the subject of architecture. It was occasioned by Burlington's publication, in the previous year (1730), of 'Palladio's Designs of the Baths, Arches, Theatres etc. of Ancient Rome'.</b> </span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><b>I know that the frigid stoners, the pick-a-pockets, my detractors (being ilk of such as those that criticise Metzger/her work/her art) might well quote me the following in answer as if I <i><u><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea2Sgqvk-6o" style="font-weight: normal;" target="_blank">Did Not</a></u></i></b><b> </b><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">[20]</span><b> know it:</b> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">He has appointed a succession of angels before him and behind him guarding by the Command of Allah. Surely Allah changes not the condition of a people until they change their own attitude. But when Allah wishes to punish a people there is no repelling it nor have they any protector beside Him. </span><span style="font-size: x-small; font-weight: normal;">[21]</span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><b>At the very least they should concede the audacity to brave the admission that I am everywhere with my sources and digress like a lunatic: whilst reading something in <i>Why the WilloW </i>I thought of how academic study/education can be a barrier to the innocence and beauty of childhood (short of leaving one cold, poor and sober). This is something Betjeman explores in 'Norfolk' his poem of childhood when he says:</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">How did the Devil come? When first attack?</span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The church is just the same, though now I know</span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Fowler of Louth restored it. Time, bring back</span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The rapturous ignorance of long ago,</span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The peace, before the dreadful daylight starts,</span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">Of unkept promises and broken hearts. </span><span style="font-size: x-small; font-weight: normal;">[22]</span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">There are few, too few pure souls as Metzger in whose case this is untrue. Who can carry that purity, that innocence throughout their lives blending in harmony with the knowledge, the acumen with expertise of subject.</span></b></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> 'A Retrospective Appraisal of <i><a href="http://www.hollacemetzger.com/3volve" target="_blank">3VOΓVE</a>'</i>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">[1] Auden, W. H. ‘In Praise of Limestone.’<i> Collected Poems</i>. Edited by Edward Mendelson. (Faber &; Faber 1976, 1991).
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">[2] Metzger, Hollace M. 'To the Jealous Girlfriend'.<i> Transcriptions of Time</i>. (2009). 195.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">[3] Hirtenstein, Stephen. <i>The Unlimited Mercifier</i>. (Anqa Publishing, 1999). 225.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">[4] ibn al-‘Arabi, Shaykh Muhiyudeen. <i>Futûhât al-Makkiya</i> [<i>The Meccan Revelations</i>]. 2 Vols. Edited by Michel </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;"> Chodkiewicz. (Pir Press, 2002, 2004).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">[5] Plath, Sylvia. <i>Collected Poems</i>. Edited by Ted Hughes. (Faber & Faber, 1981). 129. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">[6] I tend to the neorealist view of history being cyclical. The roulette wheel can only bring up the same numbers </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;"> again and again: a continual movement, as Anaxagoras observed ‘Nothing is born nor perishes, but things already </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">[7] <i>The Holy Bible</i>. John 16: 12 - 16. Authorised King James Version.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">[8] Ah me ! whither shall I flee? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;"> Thou hast metamorphosed me. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;"> Do not let me sigh and pine, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;"> Prythee be my valentine.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">[9] Qayoom, Rehan. <a href="http://www.lulu.com/shop/rehan-qayoom/about-time/paperback/product-18892140.html" target="_blank"><i>About Time</i></a>. (2011). 14, 15.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">[10] Tagore, Rabindranath. <a href="http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=6vqKoMiD-84C&printsec=frontcover" target="_blank"><i>Gitanjali: Song Offerings</i></a>. (Macmillan, 1913).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">[11] Qayoom, Rehan. <i>About Time</i>. (2011). 8.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">[12] Qayoom, Rehan. <i>About Time</i>. (2011). 54.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">[13] XXXII.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">[14] Donne, John. <i>The Complete English Poems</i>. Edited by A. J. Smith. (Penguin, 1971, corrected reprint 1976, revised </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;"> 1996). 60.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">[15] Larkin, Philip. To Kingsley Amis. In Andrew Motion <i>Philip Larkin: A Writer's Life</i>. Faber & Faber, 1993).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">When I am
fishing alone, as I come out of it, if I have to speak to somebody, I find I
can't speak properly. I can't form words. The words sort of come out backwards,
tumbled. It takes time to readjust, as if I'd been into some part of myself
that predates language.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">
(Ted Hughes interviewed by Thomas R. Pero. 'So Quickly It's Over' <i>Wild
Steelhead & Salmo</i>n. Winter, 1999. 50). </span></blockquote>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9176295151534266097.post-73658575835262451292011-05-11T07:26:00.006-07:002023-09-12T13:54:24.846-07:00Sir Muhammad Iqbal & Ahmadiyya<div style="color: black; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">It is mentioned that the famous poet <a href="http://www.allamaiqbal.com/">Sir Muhammad Iqbal</a>, arguably the greatest twentieth century poet of the Indian sub-continent was greatly influenced by the Holy Founder of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, <a href="http://www.alislam.org/topics/messiah/index.php">Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad</a> (1835 - 1908). This is thought to be a cause of consternation to those Muslims who wish to herald Iqbal as a champion among Muslim thinkers of the twentieth century.<b> </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Iqbal had become a great admirer of Hazrat Ahmad following the conversion of Iqbal's father and elder brother Shaikh Ata Muhammad. Iqbal himself made his pledge in 1897 <span class="diffchange">and even celebrated it in a poem on the subject</span>.<span style="font-size: x-small;">[1]</span> He visited Qadian and had defended Hazrat Ahmad in other verses as well before and after this event. When Hazrat Ahmad visited Sialkot in 1904, Iqbal and his friend Sir Fazli Husain sought audience with him.<span style="font-size: x-small;">[2]</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">It is a well known fact, for example, that it was Iqbal, who became instrumental in choosing <a href="http://www.fazleumarfoundation.org/">Hazrat Mirza Bashiruddin Mahmood Ahmad</a> to lead the All India Kashmir Committee in 1933<span style="font-size: x-small;">[3]</span><span style="font-size: xx-small;"> </span><span>and</span> had a close relationship with <a href="http://www.alislam.org/library/zafar.html">Hazrat Sir Chaudhry al-Hajj Muhammad Zafarullah Khan</a>, who was also a prominent Ahmadi.<span style="font-size: x-small;">[4]</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">In 1900, Iqbal published a paper in English on the famous Sufi saint Abdul Karim ibn Ibrahim al-Jilli. Mentioning the great scholarship of the saint, Iqbal wrote: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">During the period of the Caliphate of <a href="http://www.alislam.org/library/noor.html">Hazrat al-Hajj Hafiz Hakeem Maulana Nooruddin</a>, Iqbal was married to his granddaughter. The Caliph himself led the ceremony of Nikah in Qadian on 26 August 1910.<span style="font-size: x-small;">[6]</span> <ref></ref> Iqbal would also correspond with the Caliph on many issues regarding Islamic jurisprudence, theology and Arabic literature. <ref>He even sent Mirza Jalaludin to Qadian to request an Edict from the Caliph regarding the case of the divorce of his wife (who he had intended to divorce and was unsure of whether divorce had taken place from the point of Islamic Law) which he promptly acted upon: </ref></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><ref></ref><span style="font-size: x-small;">The Maulana said that no divorce had taken place according to Islamic law, but if he was uncertain in his mind he could hold the marriage ceremony again. So a Maulvi was called, and the Allama was re-married to this lady. He then took her to Sialkot. This happened in the year </span></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">1913.[7] </span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><ref></ref>Iqbal referred to the Community as "a true model of Islamic life" in a lecture he delivered at Aligarh<span style="font-size: x-small;">[8]</span> and sent his eldest son Aftab from his first marriage to Karim Bibi to Qadian to be educated in the Taleem-ul-Islam High School there.<ref><span style="font-size: x-small;">[9]</span></ref></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">He actively continued engaging with both the Qadian and Lahore branches of the movement for the rest of his life.<span style="font-size: x-small;">[10]</span> Praising their work and influential publications. But eventually detracted to the Sufi order of the Qadiriyya on the grounds of doctrinal differences only during the last few years of his life. </span></div>
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<span class="diffchange" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">[1] <i>Makhzan</i>, vol 2, p 48. See also <i><a href="http://aaiil.org/urdu/articles/hakam/raw/hakam1903.pdf">Al Hakm</a></i>. (10 January 1903). 8, 9.</span><br />
<span class="diffchange" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">[2] Maulana Muhammad Ali. <i><a href="http://aaiil.org/text/books/mali/sirmuhammadiqbalsstatementsqadianis/sirmuhammadiqbalsstatementsqadianis.shtml">Sir Muhammad Iqbal's Statement re the Qadianis</a></i>.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">[3] Maulana Dost Muhammad Shahid. <i><a href="http://www.alislam.org/urdu/pdf/Tarikh-e-Ahmadiyyat-V05.pdf">Tahrikh e Ahmadiyya: v</a></i>. 418.</span><br />
<span class="diffchange" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">[4] Professor Pervez Perwazi. <a href="http://www.apnaorg.com/books/zafrullah-1/zafrullah.php?fldr=book"><i>The Reminiscences of Sir Muhammad Zafrullah Khan</i></a>. (Oriental Publishers, 2004). 15 - 19.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">[5] <i>Indian Antiquary</i>, vol. 29. (September 1900). 239. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">[6] Hazrat al-Hajj Maulana Hafiz Hakeem Nooruddin. <a href="http://www.alislam.org/urdu/library/189.html"><i>Khutbat e Noor</i></a>. (Nizarat Nashar o Ishaat, Qadian. 2003). 477.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">[7] Abdul Majeed Salik. <i>Zikr e Iqbal</i>. 70. See also Ahmad, Syed Hasanat. <a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_190860624"><i>Hakeem Noor-ud-Deen - Khalifatul Masih I </i></a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.alislam.org/library/books/noor-ud-deen/hakeem-noor-ud-deen.pdf"><i> - The Way of the Righteous</i></a>. (Islam International Publications Ltd, 2003). 126, 127.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">[8] Sir Muhammad Iqbal. <i>Millat Baiza Per Ayk Imranı Nazar</i>. 84, 85.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">[9] <i>Al Fazl</i>, 2 August 1935.</span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9176295151534266097.post-44027900693448186202011-04-03T09:33:00.000-07:002015-04-08T14:32:21.144-07:00'The Light of the World' & the Passion to Preach<div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-size: small;">Hunt said about it that "I painted the picture with what I thought, unworthy though I was, to be by Divine command, and not simply as a good subject."</span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: x-small;">[2]</span> Toward the end of his life, Hunt painted a life-size version, which was hung in <a href="http://www.stpauls.co.uk/">St Paul's Cathedral</a>, London, following a world tour as the 'Sermon in a Frame' where the picture drew large crowds. On a visit to the cathedral I saw a lady genuflecting before the painting and weeping with emotion.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">There is a passage in the <i>Discourses</i> of <a href="http://www.alislam.org/library/messiah.html">Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad</a> - The Holy founder of the <a href="http://www.alislam.org/">Ahmadiyya Muslim Community</a> which always reminds one of this painting and leaves one wondering whether he may have seen it himself when the painting was shown in India. He says:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">[1] <i>The Holy Bible</i>. Revelation 3: 20. Authorised King James version. (1611).</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">[2]<i> </i></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">Hunt, William Holman.<i> Pre-Raphaelitism & the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood</i></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> <i>i</i>. (London: Macmillan, 1905. 350).</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9176295151534266097.post-43868664282436123572011-01-23T11:37:00.000-08:002019-08-03T05:37:52.268-07:00A Note on Reading Joyce's 'Ulysses'.<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Joyce's <i>Ulysses</i> is one of my all time favourite books. Although several editions have been pirated after the '22 text it still remains the most complete.</span><span style="font-size: x-small;">*</span><span style="font-size: small;"> A publication history detailing the editorial changes and why they were made is given in this edition. Thus Joyce:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">I highly recommend that this be read (yes, there are a myriad books of commentary on Joyce's <i style="font-size: medium;">Ulysses</i>, including the copious notes in this edition) with <i style="font-size: medium;">James Joyce's Odyssey: A Guide to the Dublin of "Ulysses"</i> by Frank Delaney (author of such delights as <i style="font-size: medium;">The Celts</i>) chapter by chapter. He retraces Bloom's journey, making it timeless (as he does in <i style="font-size: medium;">Betjeman Country</i> which incidentally I re-retraced in turn in my own 'Litel Boke' <i style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://www.goo.gl/F7zp0r" target="_blank">Seeking Betjeman Country</a></i>). He wrote to his friend in Zurich "I want to give a picture of Dublin so complete that if the city suddenly disappeared from the earth it could be reconstructed out of my book." He also used to say that he never really finished it, thought that the book did finish off his eyesight (like Homer and like Milton who both went blind writing). <br />
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It is difficult to choose a single favourite section from the book but I would go for Molly Bloom's soliloquy wherein the book is invoked and evoked.<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">* The 1922 text from Oxford Classics.</span></span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9176295151534266097.post-3264106934165339902010-11-23T03:34:00.001-08:002015-04-11T01:56:47.011-07:00From 'The Light of Truth'<div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">Just over a century ago it was British rule in India that allowed Indians to freely practice and preach their religions. Whereas it was not so under the earlier Sikh dominions and under Muslim rule the founder of <a href="http://www.alislam.org/">Ahmadiyya</a> may have been killed for claiming to be the <a href="http://www.alislam.org/topics/messiah/index.php">Promised Messiah</a> and the long-awaited Mahdi. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">The recent protesters who burnt the <a href="http://www.poppy.org.uk/">poppy</a> in <a href="http://www.royalparks.org.uk/parks/hyde_park">Hyde Park</a> are happy to receive British Citizenship and all the benefits and freedoms that come with it and yet they fail to show any respect or decency towards the people of this country. Such barbaric acts have nothing to do with any true religion. The poppy they burnt symbolised the remembrance of soldiers who lost their lives fighting for their countries. Islam teaches that one should show complete loyalty to one's country and be grateful to those who do good to you. On the other hand the <a href="http://www.britishlegion.org.uk/">Royal British Legion</a> praised members of the <a href="http://www.khuddam.org.uk/">Ahmadiyya Youth Organisation</a> who raised thousands of pounds by taking part in the <a href="http://www.epsomguardian.co.uk/yoursay/communities/epsomewell/8496350.MUSLIMS_JOIN_POPPY_APPEAL_IN_REMEMBRANCE_OF_FIGHT_AGAINST_EXREMISM/">Poppy Appeal Fundraising</a>.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">It was Britain which provided the Ahmadis refuge when they were oppressed (and Muslim countries legislated to deprive them of their fundamental <a href="http://www.thepersecution.org/">Human Rights</a>) as it had served as a refuge for the followers of the earlier <a href="http://www.alislam.org/topics/jesus">Messiah</a>. For Ahmadi Muslims the prayers of the Promised Messiah </span><span lang="ar" style="font-size: small;">عليه السلام</span><span style="font-size: small;"> are the spiritual forte behind the strength and survival of the <a href="http://royal.gov.uk/">British Monarchy</a> and it is about this country that it was </span><span style="font-size: small;">prophesied:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">In his book <i><a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/42412327/With-Love-to-the-Ahmadis-of-the-World">With Love to the Ahmadis of the World</a>, </i>Farhan Khan has referred to a passage in the book <a href="http://www.alislam.org/holyprophet/Khatam_english.pdf"><i>Finality of Prophethood</i></a> by <a href="http://www.tahirfoundation.org/">Hazrat Mirza Tahir Ahmad</a>. In the chapter about the statements of <a href="http://www.ibnarabisociety.org/">Shaykh Muhiyudeen ibn al-'Arabi</a>, Mr. Khan alleges that Ahmadi Muslims interpret an 'isolated quote' of the Great Shaykh to suit their own understanding of the term Seal of Prophets. First of all, it seems that either the references given (to ibn al-'Arabi) in this book have not been understood by Mr. Khan or he has deliberately chosen one small section of the quoted text so as to deceive his readers. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">There is an Hadith [Tradition] of Prophet Muhammad </span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">ﷺ</span> narrated in <i>Sahih Bukhari</i> that is mentioned by Shaykh ibn al-'Arabi in the course of this discussion in his magnum opus <i><span style="line-height: 115%;">Futûhât al-Makkiya</span></i></span><span style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%;"> [<i>The Meccan Revelations</i>] </span><span style="font-size: small;">that the Prophet of Allah said that 'When this Caesar will die, there will be no Caesar after him. When this Khusroe will die, there will be no Khusroe after him. By Him in Whose Hand is Muhammad's soul, surely you will spend their treasures in Allah's Cause.' Hazrat Khalifatul Masih IV says:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">That is to say, their glory, their pomp and show will be destroyed by the Muslims. In this Hadith, the Holy Prophet <span style="line-height: 115%;">ﷺ</span> in his unique wisdom has clearly explained the meaning of word <i>la </i>[no] by saying <i>Fala Kaisera Ba’ada Hoo</i> ['There will be no Caesar after him'] and <i>Fala Kisra Ba’ada Hoo</i> ['There will be no Khusroe after him'], <i>there would be no Caesar after him</i> (after this Caesar) and <i>there would be no Khusroe after him</i> (after this Khusroe). He [ibn 'Arabi in <i><span style="line-height: 115%;">Futûhât al-Makkiya</span></i><span style="line-height: 115%;">] </span>makes it clear that <i>La</i> [no] used in this context does not signify the exclusion of an entire genus. Rather, it is used to emphasize that there would be no one who would attain their majesty and their magnificence.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"> Accordingly, we had Caesar succeeding a Caesar and a Khusroe succeeding a Khusroe for a thousand years after the Holy Prophet <span style="line-height: 115%;">ﷺ</span> but they never attained the glory and grandeur of the Caesar and Khusroe of the times of the Holy Prophet <span style="line-height: 115%;">ﷺ</span>. </span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Let us now look at the passages quoted by Hazrat Mirza Tahir Ahmad in full and then let every sane person decide themselves whether the Ahmadiyya interpretations regarding the Finality of Prophethood in the writings of ibn al'Arabi stand up to scrutiny or that of Mr Khan:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">We know this with certainty that in the Muslim Ummah there will be individuals whose status, according to Allah, will be of prophets but such prophethood will be without any new law or Shariah. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"> The prophethood which came to an end with the advent of the Holy Prophet <span style="line-height: 115%;">ﷺ was </span><i>Law-bearing Prophethood</i> - a prophet with a new book and new law. There is no room for such prophethood after <i>The Holy Quran</i>. This is the correct meaning of the Tradition, which contains the Holy Prophet’s saying that there is to be no prophet after him. The Tradition only conveys that after the Holy Prophet, there can be no prophet who will replace his Sharia with another one. Henceforth, whenever any prophet comes, he will be subordinate to him and his Shariah. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"> <i>The Holy Quran</i>. al-Nisa [The Women]. 160. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Shaykh Muhiyudeen ibn al-'Arabi writes in the same book: </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Jesus (peace be on him) shall descend amongst the Muslim Ummah as an arbritator without a new law. Most surely, he will be a prophet. There is no doubt about it. He is bound to descend in the Latter Days in a new physical form.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Here you would note Hadhrat ibn-'Arabi states emphatically that the Messiah would be a new Messiah and that he will be a prophet. Despite all this evidence, our opponents would continue to insist that there will be no new prophet. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">For further readings into Ahmadiyya understanding about the idea of the Finality of Prophethood see <a href="http://www.scribd.com/fullscreen/43069232/I-am-the-Master-of-the-Bezels-Hadhrat-Mirza-Ghulam-Ahmad-on-ibn-al-Arabi?secret_password=1hfo13hcv99cxb8xerng" target="_blank">'<i>I am the Master of the Bezels</i>: Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad on ibn 'Arabi'</a>, by the author.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">© Rehan Qayoom, 14 November 2010.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Last week I went to see an exhibition of paintings by the artist Maryam Hashemi at the <a href="http://www.thebroadwaybarking.com/">Broadway Theatre</a>. I first saw her recite some Ghazals with great passion and feeling, by the fourteenth Century Persian poet, Hafez at the event organised in his honour by <a href="http://www.poetinthecity.co.uk/">Poet in the City</a> on <a href="http://www.nationalpoetryday.co.uk/">National Poetry Day</a>. I have attended quite a few of their events in the past (I was at the Poetry Breakfast with Jo Shapcott that very morning) and this was one of their best.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Maryam Hashemi has a wonderful command of subject in her artwork, blending mythology with current every-day things that people of all ages can relate to in their own lives. I was particularly taken by the striking variety of colours. The strong projection of national heritage in her work is carefully constructed as well as sublimely universal and evokes an exceptional sense of place. Her paintings give a powerful message but they do so gently and with a remarkable clarity of vision. Do check out her <a href="http://www.maryamhashemi.co.uk/">website</a>.</span></div>
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