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Yogananda's To the Aurora Borealis
The speaker in "To the Aurora Borealis" compares the awe-inspiring northern lights to the inner vision experienced in divine perfect union of soul and Divinity. more...
The speaker in Yogananda's "My Kinsmen" declares his unity with all of creation, celebrating the progression of stages through which he has evolved. more...
The speaker in Yogananda's poem, "Friendship," explores and dramatizes the unique bond that exists between friends and reveals its rôle in serving soul progress. more...
Amichai's Near the Wall of a House
Amichai's versanelle expands its focus through a divine realization, one begun in utterly humble circumstances. more...
Yogananda's I Am Lonely No More
The speaker in Paramahansa Yogananda's "I Am Lonely No More" celebrates his freedom from the human malady of loneliness. more...
The speaker in "My Prisoner" begins with a prison metaphor that transforms into a cloister, wherein the devotee/speaker will retain his Divine Captive. more...
Yogananda's Some Treasure of my Own
The speaker in Yogananda's "Some Treasure of My Own" elucidates his understanding regarding the importance of loving the Giver more than the gifts. more...
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Rumi, Hafiz, & the Truth of the Mystic Poets
According to the great Persian Sufi Poet Rumi (1207-1273), love is the most difficult concept to define, "My pen splinters when I write Love,"* he writes. more...
How Ovid's Heroides Used Virgil's Aeneid
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Luke Arnott
Ovid wanted to retell part of Virgil's Aeneid in his own way. But his Heroides doesn't change the Dido and Aeneas story, one of many tales in Ovid's early poem. more...
By: Taran Johnston
The historical figure, Count Fernán González of Castile, provides the basis for the famous chivalric poem that bears his name. more...
By: Dolores Bundy
The evolution of Black Poetry has typically been excluded from mainstream literature. more...
Dante Rossetti and the Paradox of Time
By: Ana Hartman
Rossetti portrays time paradoxically as that which lends peacefulness and elevation, but also as that which is simultaneously haunting in its inevitable passing. more...
Sarojini Naidu – Nightingale of India – Poems
By: Martin G. Wood
Many of Sarojini Naidu's poems are infused with political and social commentary; but, quite a few are simply musings on life; meditative and halcyonic. more...
Book Review – Seamus Heaney's Selected Poems
By: Ryan Werner
For a very select audience, this documentation of 21 years of Seamus Heaney's poetry career will be an enjoyable and cathartic journey through Ireland and its culture. more...
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