Circe : daughter of Helios (the Sun) who changed Odysseus’s companions into swine, but he forced her to break the spell.
... weeping, and winds from sternward Bore us out onward with bellying canvas, Circe's this craft, the trim-coifed goddess. A voyage, then; Odysseus, obviously; and there is Circe, too. Is it the Odyssey again in a Poundian version, perhaps in all the four Dantean Page 388 senses, the literal, the allegorical, the analogical, the ethical? We return... . To the cave art thou called, Odysseus,... 43 Allen Tate guardedly writes: "Mr. Pound's world is the scene of a great Odyssey, and everywhere he lands it is the shore of Circe, where men 'lose all companions' and are turned into swine. It would not do to push this hint too far, but I will risk one further point: Mr. Pound is a typically modern, rootless, and internationalised ...
... that of Circe who lusted with him and infected his mind, for just as insects slowly sink and drown in amber, so in my turbid mind beasts, trees, and mortals sank. 72 Last came the third form, the most dangerous of all, for now Death masqueraded like the virgin of a noble tribe who on the beach smiled softly at a shipwrecked man. 73 Calypso, Circe, Nausicaa ...
... fulfilment of the long and great spiritual traditions of India. II In recent years, Nirad C. Chaudhuri has put forward an amazing thesis in his controversial book. The Continent of Circe (1965): that the Aryan Hindus in India are descendents of the arrivals of long ago from Europe, from somewhere between the Danube and the Volga, via Persia, while the 'darks' are likewise the descendents... or survivals of the remote past. But the once 'fair' European-Aryan has now become the brown Hindu whom the climate of North India has enfeebled in body has well as mind, India is the "Continent of Circe", the enervating continent that has reduced the Aryan Hindus to their present swinish plight! It is the popular version of an Aryan invasion involving the struggle between Aryan and Dasyu, fair and ...
... delight, All the perfumed night. Thou possessed and I possessing, earth Opened for our mirth. Flowers dropping on us from delighted trees, Revels of the breeze, All for me because I hold their Circe white, Queen of their delight. Wanton, thou shalt know at last a chain Golden to restrain. Not a minute of thee shall escape my kiss, Captive made to bliss, Not a wandering breath but love shall ...
... face at the window, sweet Love, you have thrown a spell on my heart, on my feet. My heart to your face, my feet to your window still Bear me by force as if by an alien will. O witch of beauty, O Circe with innocent eyes, You have suddenly caught me fast in a net of sighs. When I look at the sunlight, I see your laughing face; When I purchase a flower, it is you in your radiant grace. I have ...
... also wheel, spoked), 160-61 war-chariot, 234, 251-3 Chattopadhyaya, DebipRasād, 187-9, 192-3, 197 Chattopadhyaya, K.C., 269, 288, 335, 376-9, 401 Chaudhuri, Nirad, Continent of Circe, 166 Chedi, 239 Chilas, 282 China, 261, 321, 323 Chhandogya Upanishad, 236 Clark, Prof. J. Desmond, 220 Cleator, P.E., Lost Languages, 171 fn. Constantini ...
... devour them when their vessels shipwrecked on their rocky islands. They were represented with the head and bust of a woman and the body of a bird. In the Odyssey, when Odysseus is about to leave Circe on whose island he and his companions have been stranded for a year, she warns him of the dangers ahead; "First thou shalt arrive where the enchanter sirens dwell, they who seduce men. The imprudent ...
... Pilgrimage, 78 Chirol, Sir Valentine, 269 Chitrangada, 100, 106, 185 Clough, Arthur Hugh, 639 Colebrooke, Henry, 13 Confucius, 212 Continent of Circe, The, 450 Conversations of the Dead, 338 Cornville, 134,140 Cotton, Sir Henry, 36-7, 204, 206 Cotton, James S., 31, 33,37, 38 Cousins, James H., 610ff ...
... as Homer designates him, passed through quite a number of perils and temptations during his nine-year tossing on the high seas. Will you be able to resist the song of the Sirens or the lure of Circe? Perhaps if you put down everything in cold ink you will acquire an objective view of things and may stop short of complications. Already you have been jotting down your inner and outer vicissitudes ...
... conjured up and the music which is the theme becomes too a live thing. Nor does Milton's Comus stop with them. He goes on to compare the ravishing effect with what super-natural creatures like his mother "Circe with the Sirens three" used to produce in "prisoned souls", lapping them in Elysium: Yet they in pleasing slumber lulled the sense, And in sweet madness robbed it of itself; But such ...
... be not directly made, and the traumatic experience of having to flee be not unnecessarily resurrected. This issue is specifically analysed rather brilliantly by Nirad Chaudhuri in his Continent of Circe. Chaudhuri may be branded (and with good reason) as unpatriotic, but his credentials as a scholar of the Aryan classics (Indian, as well as European) are stout. We have his word for it that the whole ...
... was well received in unknown places and was offered gifts. The wandering took Odysseus to the Lotus-eaters, to the country of Page 23 Cyclope, to the Island of Aeolus, to the island of Circe, to the Sirens island, and thereafter passed through the channel between Scylla and Charybdis. The next stop was the Island of Calypso and then, to the island of the Phaeacians. At last, he reached ...
... was the rise and equally vertiginous the apparent fall. The secure job lost as suddenly as it had come, I had to make a hot retreat and go to Calcutta. It was like leaving an enchanted island of Circe and buffetted and bruised, reaching one’s native shore. After knocking about for six months or so for a job, finally I was driven back to find my anchor at Chittagong as I had told the Mother at our ...
... then is the consequence? Men are easily deluded and fascinated by the false beauty of a visionary world and depart from truth, good and real beauty. Poetry, the sweetheart, is the enchantress, the Circe, whose only work is to delude men and turn them into pigs or at least lambs.¹ Do you not see what a low opinion ¹ Whatever may be the case of the poet, it is not that such a notion does not prevail ...
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