Hades : (1) a son of Cronus & Rhea, who won the lordship of the nether world when his brother Zeus of the sky, & Poseidon of the sea. He is also known as Pluto. (2) His domain also came to be known as Hades [s/a Tartarus].
... Yield these and live, else I leap on you, Fate in front, Hades behind me. Bound to the gods by an oath I return not again from the battle Till from high Ida my shadow extends to the Mede and Euphrates. Let not your victories deceive you, steps that defeat has imagined; Hear not the voice of your heroes; their fame is a trumpet in Hades: Only they conquer while yet my horses champ free in their... joyless in Hades." Paris replied: "O sister Polyxena, blame me not wholly. We by the gods are ensnared; for the pitiless white Aphrodite Doing her will with us both compels this. Helpless our hearts are And when she drives perforce must love, for death or for gladness: Weighed in unequal scales she deals them to one or another. Happy who holding his love can go down into bottomless Hades." But to... my house and behold, my house that was filled once with voices. Sons whom the high gods envied me crowded the halls that are silent. Where are they now? They are dead, their voices are silent in Hades, Fallen slaying the foe in a war between sin and the Furies. Silent they went to the battle to die unmourned for their country, Die as they knew in vain. Do I keep now the last ones remaining, Sparing ...
... and now Fate gives me This tragic, not inglorious death: I am The banquet of a god. It fits, it fits, And I repine not. PERSEUS But will these help, Tyrnaus, To pass the chill eternity of Hades? This memory of glorious breathing life, Will it alleviate the endless silence? TYRNAUS But there are lives beyond, and we meanwhile Move delicately amid aerial things Until the green earth... ours. O surely in these regions Where thou wert born, pure-eyed Andromeda, There shall be some divine epiphany Of calm sweet-hearted pity for the world, And harsher gods shall fade into their Hades. SMERDAS You prattle, and at any moment, comes The dreadful priest with clutch upon my shoulder. Come! come! you, slave-girl, lead the way, accursed! You loiter? ANDROMEDA Chide not... This is not sanity. POLYDAON ( controlling himself with a great effort ) The sacrilegious house is blotted out Of Cepheus. Let not one head outlive their ending! Andromeda appoints the way to Hades Page 474 Who was in crime the boldest, then her brother Yells on the altar: last Cepheus and his Queen— CRIES Tear her! let the Chaldean harlot die. POLYDAON She shall be ...
... Cronion: Zeus (son of Cronos). Cronos or Cronus: Father of Zeus. The youngest of the twelve titans, children of Gaea, the Earth, and Uranus the Sky. Father of six Greek gods: Zeus. Poseidon, Hades, Hera, Demeter and Hestia. He swallowed each of his own children at birth, but Zeus escaped. After a protracted struggle he and the other titans were vanquished. Cyclops: One of a family of... warm moisture; then he appeared as the god of pleasure and the god of civilisation; and finally according to Orphic conceptions, as supreme god. Dis: The Roman name for the Greek Pluto or Hades, the god of the nether realm. Dryads: Nymphs of the woods and trees. Enceladus: One of the giants who waged war against the gods. He was hurled down by Athene and imprisoned... of ancient Thrace, she was originally a moon goddess. Her name seems to be a feminine form of a title of Apollo, "the far darter". She and Helios together witnessed the abduction of Persephone by Hades. Hecate was powerful both in the sky and on earth. She gave men richness, victory and wisdom. She was also Medusa head Page 116 Hector and Achilles face to ...
... any crops. Then would the entire human race have perished of cruel, biting hunger if Zeus had not intervened. Zeus sent his son Hermes to Hades, and he obtained from him the promise that he would return young Kore to her mother. But, before sending her back, Hades tempted her to eat a few seeds of pomegranate and, as this fruit was a symbol of marriage, their union became indissoluble. As a compromise... her. He was able to charm Persephone with his lyre and was allowed to take his wife back to Earth on the sole condition that he should not turn to look at her. They had almost reached the gates of Hades when Orpheus, overcome with anxiety lest she should not be following, looked back. Immediately Eurydice vanished, this time forever. Orpheus playing the lyre surrounded by wild beasts... big caldron. Pallas Athena however was able to rescue the god's heart which she brought to Zeus. With the still beating heart Zeus created Dionysus while Zagreus became an underworld deity, who in Hades, welcomed the souls of the dead and helped them with their purification. Dionysus, the god who, in Plutarch's* words is destroyed, who disappears, who relinquishes life and then is born again became ...
... kindred tale of Eurydice, the distinction I have sought to draw between the Hindu and Greek mytho-poetic faculty, justifies itself with great force and clearness. The incidents of Orpheus' descent into Hades, his conquering Death and Hell by his music and harping his love back to the sunlight, and the tragic loss of her at the moment of success through a too natural and beautiful human weakness, has infinite... inexactness is better than a laborious pedantry. I have therefore striven to avoid all that would be unnecessarily local and pedantic, even to the extent of occasionally using a Greek expression such as Hades for the lord of the underworld. I believe such uses to be legitimate, since they bring the poem nearer home to the imagination of the reader. On the other hand, there are some words one is loth to part... this has been made familiar by Shelley's exquisite lyric); coil or Kokil, for the Indian cuckoo; and names like Dhurma (Law, Religion, Rule of Nature) and Critanta, the ender, for Yama, the Indian Hades. These, I think, are not more than a fairly patient reader may bear with. Mythological allusions, the indispensable setting of a Hindu legend, have been introduced sparingly, and all but one or two ...
... Ishtar descends into Aralu, or Hades, demands entrance to 'the land whence there is no return' and after a series of adventurous experiences rescues from the world of the dead Tammuz, her only son, who was taken away before his time. The descent-myth of Orpheus depicts how, after the death of Eurydice, his beloved wife, Orpheus descended into Hades, moved Pluto and Persephone to pity... moments of actual personal crisis in the life of the individual. The sting of Death which lies in 'the sense of being 1 Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics, Vol. IV (Article: "Descent to Hades"). 2 J. H. Bernard, "Assumption and Ascension" in Ibid., Vol. II, pp. 151-53. Page 6 devoured, broken up, destroyed or forced away' is too real and painfully sharp ...
... Poseidon Caused the limitless earth to rumble and quake From plain to sheer mountain peaks. Well-watered Ida Was shaken from bottom to top, as were the city Of Troy and ships of Achaea. Hades, god Of ghosts in the world under ground, was filled with panic And sprang from his throne with a scream, lest Poseidon, shaker Of earth, should split the ground open above him and thus... sword, If Poseidon had not been keeping sharp watch. At once He spoke thus mid the gods everlasting: "Truly my grief Is great for high-souled Aeneas, who soon indeed Shall go down to Hades' halls, killed by Achilles For heeding the word of far-working Apollo childish Fool that he was! For Apollo will not keep sad death From him for a moment. But why should that innocent man... high-hearted Son of Peleus, who is both stronger than you And dearer to the immortals? Rather, give ground Whenever you meet him, or you before your time Will enter the house of Hades. But after Achilles Collides with his own dark fate and dies, then summon Your courage to fight their greatest champions, for none Of the other Achaeans will ever be able to kill you ...
... Sleek folds, great Mahapudma; high displayed He bears the throne of Death. There sat supreme With those compassionate and lethal eyes, Who many names, who many natures holds; Yama, the strong pure Hades sad and subtle, Dharma, who keeps the laws of old untouched, Critanta, who ends all things and at last Himself shall end. On either side of him The four-eyed dogs mysterious rested prone, Watchful... Ruru came and bowed before the throne; And swaying all those figures stirred as shapes Upon a tapestry moved by the wind, And the sad voice was heard: "What breathing man Bows at the throne of Hades? By what force, Spiritual or communicated, troubles His living beauty the dead grace of Hell?" And one replied who seemed a neighbouring voice: "He has the blood of Gods and Titans old. An Apsara... earth with Eden touched. Chyavan was Bhrigu's child, Puloma bore, The Titaness,– Bhrigu, great Brahma's son. Love gave the flower that helps by anguish; therefore He chilled not with the breath of Hades, nor The cry of the infernal stream made stone." But at the name of Love all hell was moved. Death's throne half faded into twilight; hissed The phantoms serpentine as if in pain, And the dogs ...
... it is a pleasure and satisfaction to souls to become moist. This inclination of the soul to its natural delight in a sort of wine-drenched laxity must be discouraged; for Dionysus the wine-god and Hades, the Lord of Death, the Lord of the dark underworld, are one and the same deity. Professor Ranade takes this eulogy of the dry soul as praise of the dry light of reason; he finds in it a proof that... wine-drinking. Surely, it cannot be so; Heraclitus cannot mean by the dry soul the reason of a sober man and by a moist soul the non-reason or bewildered reason of the drunkard; nor when he says that Hades and Dionysus are the same, is he simply discouraging the drinking of wine as fatal to the health! Evidently he employs here, as always, a figurative Page 218 and symbolic language because... which he finds ordinary language too poor and superficial. Heraclitus is using the old language of the Mysteries, though in his own new way and for his own individual purpose, when he speaks of Hades and Dionysus and the ever-living Fire or of the Furies, the succourers of Justice who will find out the Sun if he oversteps his measure. We miss his sense, if we see in these names of the gods only ...
... ; even afterwards I did not make myself acquainted with all his poetry, it was only Modern Love and poems like the sonnet on Lucifer and on the ascent to earth of the daughter of Hades [ The Day of the Daughter of Hades ] that I strongly admired and it had its effect in the formation of my poetic style and its after-effects in that respect are not absent from Savitri . It is only Swinburne's early... Shelley and Coleridge. I cannot tell you much about it from that point of view; I did not draw consciously from any of the poets you mention except from Phillips. I read Marpessa and Christ in Hades before they were published and as I was just in the stage of formation then—at the age of 17—they made a powerful impression which lasted until it was worked out in Love and Death . I dare say some ...
... discerned - that "the story of Lyca in the two poems... is... Blake's version of the myth celebrated in the Mysteries of Eleusis, the story of the descent of Persephone into Hades, and the search of the Mother for her lost child". 16 Hades or Pluto is material Nature. The Virgin Persephone or Proserpine is the vital animating part, commonly called the Soul, descending into that world of generation. Her mother... and has On his head a crown. 22 Nor does this beast answer to Blake's conception - "the revelation to the parents that is the central meaning of the poem" 23 -that the King of Hades, "the Zeus of the underworld is in truth the same as the Zeus of Olympus, and Persephone's marriage in truth a marriage to the supreme deity himself." 24 Further, even if Blake had introduced into ...
... so considerable a length of English blank verse. Both Love and Death and Urvasie bear traces of the influence of Stephen Phillips's Christ in Hades and Marpessa. During his Cambridge days Sri Aurobindo had seen Christ in Hades in manuscript — a memorable and fecundating event. Marpessa got even more under his skin. Stephen Phillips is at present a forgotten name because he could ...
... Next he passes to the Greek ideas of the after-death, according to which the dead go down into the dim, lifeless underworld of Hades, lightless graves, fields no sunlight visits, alleys without any glad murmurs, waters with no flowers. Lethe is the river of forgetfulness in Hades from which the shades of the dead have to drink so as to forget their earthly past. Lethe, he says, could [rust] their minds ...
... golden face; her throat smelled of sandalwood. I was quashed, limp, ripe for defeat—love is always a defeat. She drew closer to me. Something was still repeating: “Laurelbank-Laurelbank...” But what in hades was I going to do over there? Had I not everything one could want of life: beauty, love, a fortune if I wished? What else? She was twenty, I was just twenty-nine. Which of my brothers would not have... look until the tiny secret burst forth. And always, that obsessing impression of a cardinal memory that I could not find again—what, then, had I forgotten...what? quoi? Then I sent everything to Hades and started off again. There were rocks at the far end of the beach—a pile of granite as after some terrible sort of explosion. I climbed along the coast. The air was close and stifling. The sun ...
... (Patala)' passage, we see things actually happening, and we become almost participants in the action. It may, perhaps, be said that this 'descent' , into Hell is more Greek than Hindu, recalls vaguely Hades and Tartarus and the Circles in Dante than the legendary Patala of Indian mythology. Nevertheless, merely as a poetic projection of other worlds - or nether worlds - the passage must rank among the... and he understands "That terrible and wordless sympathy/ Of dead souls for the living"; and moving further on, and his passage not obstructed because of Madan's flower, he approaches the throne of Hades. There are muttered exclamations and explanations; there are giant dogs, four-eyed and mysterious; and there is Yama himself whom Ruru confronts at last. Once more a Temptation Scene breathlessly ...
... Persephone and Pluto has to release her, but he has given her seven pomegranate seeds to eat, to assure her return to his realm. There is an Orphic Hymn, however, which speaks of Demeter's descent into Hades. I have not been able to find it or know its substance, but have used the idea, for it holds more real meaning than the other superficial ending of the story. This myth, like all great myths... realities of the here and now..." The myth of Demeter and Persephone speaks of the separation of the soul from its Divine Mother-Consciousness and its descent into Matter, (the Greek "hyle"), into Hades. Pluto, Lord of the Underworld, called also "the Nether Zeus", is the entire material Nature which imprisons the soul until the Divine Consciousness descends and redeems it, and all Nature with it. ...
... Titan 1 (confronting her) We cannot let you pass. Demeter (stopping short) Ah! Titan 2 (loud, blustering) Ay, that is the Law. No human creature Can tread on Hades' ground. Here only shades Can pass. That is the Law, the Law of old. Demeter (quietly) But is there no new Law? Titan 1 Defy us not, Woman, no mortal ever has passed... cannot pass. Demeter Why not? Titan 1 It's our realm. What do you want here? Demeter Ah, everything. I go to free my Child, The Jewel-Light grim Hades has imprisoned, And all the precious gems and gold he has hid. Titan 2 But that's impossible, you cannot reach Old Pluto's stronghold in the deeps. Demeter Why not? ...
... husband Satyavan restored to life for a further lease of four hundred years. 2 Behula intercedes with Lord Shiva to resuscitate her snake-bitten husband Lakhindar, 3 Istar descends into Aralu or Hades and rescues from there her only son Tammuz, 4 Dionysos goes down into the land of the dead and brings back to life his mother Semele, 5 and Nachiketas returns to the realm of the living, learning... restoration to life has been conditional and partial; thus Alcestis 7 sacrifices her life so that her husband Admetus may be spared from the jaws of death; immortal Pollux 8 spends half his time in Hades in order that his twin Castor who was dead might return to life; Ruru 9 sacrifices half of the life-span allotted to him and his wife Pramadvura revives with this half. Mythical man has sometimes ...
... the Times Literary Supplement grants deep thought and technical excellence as the only merits of my uninspired poetry. It is otherwise with Stephen Phillips: I read Marpessa and Christ in Hades, the latter in typescript, shortly before I left England and they aroused my admiration and made a considerable impression on me. I read recently a reference to Phillips as a forgotten poet, but... Songs to Myrtilla; even afterwards I did not make myself acquainted with all his poetry, it was only Modern Love and poems like the sonnet on Lucifer and the Ascent to Earth of the Daughter of Hades that I strongly admired and it had its effect on the formation of my poetic style and its after-effects in that respect are not absent from Savitri. It is only Swinburne's early lyrical poems that ...
... Poseidon forgets mid the pomp and the roar of his waters, We three keep in our hearts. By the Light that I watch for unsleeping, By thy tremendous consent to the silence and darkness, O Hades, By her delight renounced and the prayers and the worship of mortals Making herself as an engine of God without bowels or vision,- Yet in that engine are only heart-beats, yet is her... Filled was the air with their troops and the sound of a vast lamentation. wailing they went, lamenting mortality's ages of greatness, Ruthless Ananke's deeds and the mortal conquests of Hades. Then in the fane Palladian the shuddering priests of Athene Entered the darkened shrine and saw on the suffering marble Shattered Athene's, mighty statue prostrate as conquered, ...
... done; They seek a younger earth, a surer sun. When youth has quenched its soft and magic light, Delightful things remain but dead is their delight. AETHON Ah! for a little hour put by Dim Hades and his pageantry. Forget the future, leave the past, The little hour thy life shall last. Learn rather from the violet's days Soft-blooming in retired ways Or dewy bell, the maid undrest With ...
... welter. Comrades dear as the drops of my heart have been left when it rises, Left in thy salt and lonely seas, and the scream of the tempest Chides me that still I live, but I live and I yield not to Hades. Staggering on as one laughed at and buffeted, straining for shelter, Hopes despairingly, so by the pitiless mob of thy billows Seized the ship goes stumbling on and is wounded and blinded, Seeming ...
... hed with dewdrops for her stars. Thou art a flower with candid petals wide, Moon-flushed, most innocent-seeming to the eye; But in thy cup, they say, lurks venomed wine Which whoso sucks, pale Hades on him lays Ensnaring arms to drag from the sweet sun. ALACIEL Whom will not Envy's livid tooth assail? Page 756 'Tis true my wisdom dwarfs their ignorance; That is most true: ...
... delicate haze Go off; those mooned sands forsake their place; And where they are shall other seas in turn Mow with their scythes of whiteness other bays. 25 All the myths about Hades, according to Lucretius, are but allegories of the torments of needless anxieties in life. Tantalus is the man who lives in fear of the gods; Tityos is the frustrated lover; Sisyphus is the ambitious ...
... red-hot tridents burning all your hair Till you'll be bald as — as this fool Murari Who will insult me and yet bend his knees To a callow youth and call him my superior. Yes, he too shall be haled to Hades with you. ROMA ( scared ) I crave your pardon, sir. I will not say One word more, nor ever dare to pitch My poor opinions against the learned wisdom Of a great pundit who has touched ...
... miss my way to the Lord. If I drain to the dregs earth's wine of Maya My feet will not falter nor body sway. I kneel to no godheads, I cringe to no demons, I outstrip both Heaven and Hades in play: And withal, a derelict blind boy's cry Still makes me pause — I know not why! The entire poem rather than one stanza deserves to be quoted. Nor is the itch to quote in full ...
... Aurobindo's early blank verse which assimilates several influences into a varied vigorous originality mingles Paradise Lost most with the chief immediate influence - Stephen Phillips's Christ in Hades and Marpessa - and the principal background influence - Kalidasa's Vicramorvasie. And this blank verse is of particular interest because of a certain question raised by Sri Aurobindo in connection ...
... connection came to a dead stop with my departure from England a quarter of a century ago; it had for its last events the discovery of Meredith as a poet, in his Modern Love , and the perusal of Christ in Hades ,—some years before its publication,—the latter an unforgettable date. I had long heard, standing aloof in giant ignorance, the great name of Yeats, but with no more than a fragmentary and mostly indirect ...
... images or fine phrases. When Homer writes simply "Sing, Goddess, the baleful wrath of Achilles, son of Peleus, which laid a thousand woes on the Achaeans and hurled many strong souls of heroes down to Hades and made their bodies a prey for dogs and all the birds; and the will of Zeus was accomplished", he is writing in the highest style of poetry. 13 June 1936 Conceit When an image comes out from ...
... we shall consort, Amid the gladness often touching hands To make bliss sure"— Page 13 to the same manner handled with tremendous severity when Ruru, in his search through Hades, chilled at "the cry not meant for living ears", pervading that region— but terrible strong love Was like a fiery finger in his breast Pointing him on— and reach a climax in the c ...
... in life and apprehension of its unalterable framework. The Greek men wanted so much their fame to be immortal probably because they dreaded the dim shadowy life that was supposed to await them in Hades. The Indian conception of life starts from a deeper centre. The Indian Page 284 idea of existence is not physical but spiritual. Man himself is not matter, but a spirit that uses ...
... "Hynamus fell, Admetusis was wounded, Charmidas slaughtered; Cirrhes died, though he f faced not the blow while he hastened to shelter. Itylus, bright and beautiful, went down to night and to Hades. Back, ever back the Hellens recoiled from the shock of the Virgin, Slain by her prowess fierce, alarmed by the might of her helpers." 21 The scene is well set for a climatic encounter ...
... images or fine phrases. When Homer writes simply "Sing, Goddess, the baleful wrath of Achilles, son of Peleus, which laid a thousand woes on the Achaeans and hurled many strong souls of heroes down to Hades and made their bodies a prey for dogs and all the birds; and the will of Zeus was accomplished", he is writing in the highest style of poetry. June 13, 1937 Guru, here is the tail of the ...
... by contamination. If the contrary Force is strong in the body, one can move in the midst of plague and cholera and never get contaminated. Plague too, rats dying all around, people passing into Hades. I have seen that myself in Baroda. You will say then that flies, bugs etc. that contaminate food, are sent to people by these forces and they were meant to be infected? They were open to the ...
... -sixty-five joints knit to flesh, by the three-hundred-and-sixty-five snakes round the soul, no master-god exists, no virtue, no just law, no punishment in Hades and no reward in Heaven! 78 His wild dance to the tune of these negations merely scares away the pilgrims who have gathered round him for solace. It is the measure of Odysseus' limitation—as ...
... no Savitri, and Admetus no Satyavan. Alcestis is a simple woman who accepts death as a duty, while Admetus is merely petulant and egoistic. It is Heracles who sets upon Thanatos (the messenger from Hades) and rescues Alcestis and restores her to her husband. Alcestis is a passive character, heroic in her own silent way, who is willing to make the supreme sacrifice for the sake of her husband and children ...
... have seen that at the age of twenty-seven, while at Baroda Sri Aurobindo wrote Love and Death. It is a stirring poem in blank verse; this plot also is taken from the Mahabharata. Ruru descends into Hades to bring back to Earth and life his beloved Priyumvada —snatched untimely away by Death —in exchange for half his life span. "The poem itself was written in a white heat of inspiration during ...
... contrary Force is strong in the body," replied Sri Aurobindo patiently, "one can move in the midst of plague and cholera and never get contaminated. Plague too, rats dying all around, people passing into Hades. I have seen that myself in Baroda." Sri Aurobindo agreed that measures recommended by doctors —sanitation, hygiene, etc.—could raise the standard of health, yet all that they can "deal with is ...
... intense pleasure in some of Coleridge's poetry." Keats too, specially his Hyperion. Among the Victorian poets, Stephen Phillips made a considerable impression on him. "I read Marpessa and Christ in Hades, before they were published and as I was just in the stage of formation then — at the age of seventeen — they made a powerful impression which lasted until it was worked out in Love and Death." Sri ...
... Ram, Agni (Moloch, Thor) the Bull, the Aswins (Castor & Pollux) the Twins, Upendra (Baal) the Crab, Varuna (Poseidon) the Lion, Aditi, called also Savitri or Sita (Astarte, Aphrodite) the Girl, Yama (Hades) the Balance, Aryama (Ares) the Scorpion, Mitra or Bhava (Apollo Phoebus) the Archer, Saraswati called also Ganga (Nais) the Crocodile, Parjanya (Apis) the Jar, Nara (Nereus) the Fish. All these gods ...
... Treads in her footsteps. Thou too, Timocles? Thoas, Leosthenes and Philoctetes, Good friends, will you stay long? The world grows empty. Why, all that's great in Syria staggers after me Into blind Hades; I am royally Attended. Theras enters. Page 310 THERAS Phayllus' will compels me to it, Or else I do not like the thing I do. ANTIOCHUS Who is it? Thou art the instrument ...
... sun of the Vedic image lodging in the blind cave gives him a negative light; a darkness visible revealing darkness immeasurable shows him the gloomy secrets of some city of dreadful Night, shadow of Hades or lowest Tartarean clot of Hell. The sun of Truth may be still for him below the verge with its light already on the tops and flushing the chill of the snows, ride regal in heaven or gravely sunken ...
... funeral of foliage old, or, With slow sweet surgery restore the brain, or again, The vault closed back, woe upon woe, the wheel Revolved, the stone rebounded, for that time Hades her interrupted life resumed. These and others are the means used, but at their back is the principle of a free intonation. It is the tone that builds the verse, gives it its real form and the ...
... reviewer in The Times Literary Supplement grants deep thought and technical excellence as the only merits of my uninspired poetry. It is otherwise with Stephen Phillips: I read Marpessa and Christ in Hades , the latter Page 348 in typescript, shortly before I left England and they aroused my admiration and made a considerable impression on me. I read recently a reference to Phillips as a forgotten ...
... is the main thing. If the contrary Force is strong in the body, one can move in the midst of plague and cholera and never get contaminated. Plague too, rats dying all around, people passing into Hades. I have seen that myself in Baroda. I have gone through the report of the Doctor and it seems to be clear from it—he says so himself—that there is nothing serious the matter and no danger. If ...
... conscious will is in abeyance. If the dream was trivial, it would seem to show that this ghost was not a strong demon like the militant Norwegian saga revenants but a phantom from an unsubstantial Hades. Most people have that kind of dream at night. It is because the thoughts and memories that belong to the past are there always in some part of the being, even if they are not active in the waking ...
... with whom Sri Aurobindo had some acquaintance in his college days at Cambridge because Sri Aurobindo's brother Manmohan and Phillips were great chums, brings it in when he talks of the underworld, Hades, during Christ's alleged brief visit to that place of shadows and tortures: Dreadful suspended business and vast life Pausing.... Sri Aurobindo introduces an almost direct commercial c ...
... could symbolize the world of Nature cut off from the Divine Existence, the Infinite. Raine informs us that forests are the classical symbol of natural existence and their night is the night of the Hades of the temporal world. According to her, forests in Blake's symbolic landscape are invariably evil and can have no place in the 112. Ibid., p. 238 (Europe, 2, 11.1-9). 113. Ibid., p. ...
... touch can golden the blackest night Of agony into a marvellous, deathless dawn. He veils His Beauty's Face to deepen our yearning For His loveliness, and suffers the powers that be To cast us into Hades but to teach us This supreme lesson that one who has passioned for Him Can never go under nor need parley with The little officials of the world — to win Flowers that fade, laurels that swiftly ...
... abandoning his kingdom on earth. In Love and Death, when Priyumvada dies stung by a snake, 1 The Harmony of Virtue, SABCL, Vol. 3, pp. 154-55. Ruru seeks her out in Patala (Hades), makes a deal with the Lord of Death and returns with her to the earth. The theme is love, and separation, and the power of Love to achieve reunion. But in the Savitri story, the protagonist ...
... Stephen Phillips. Sri Aurobindo himself has recognised the influence of these poets on his early poetic formation. He even says that the after-effects of Meredith's Ascent to Earth of the Daughter of Hades "are not absent from Savitri." See, SABCL, VoL 26, pp. 264-65. Page 443 spiritual is rooted in the natural." 13 In Indian myths Sri Aurobindo discovers the power that can accomplish ...
... of the 'Decline and Fall'." "Luminous!" repeated Sheridan, "Oh! of course I meant voluminous." 15 (10) From Oscar Wilde (1856-1900): (i) Sir Lewis Morris, the author of "The Epic of Hades", was complaining to Oscar Wilde of what he regarded as studied neglect of his claims when possible successors to the Laureateship were being discussed after Tennyson's death. Page 301 ...
... very beginning of the poem: "Sing to me, Muse, of the wrath of Achilles Pelidean, Murderous, bringing a million woes on the men of Achaea, Many the mighty souls whom it drove down to Hades, Souls of heroes and made of their bodies booty for vultures, Dogs and all birds; so the will of Zeus was wholly accomplished Even from the moment when they two parted in strife and anger ...
... her beloved out of regard for what she considered her duty, this is what she said in reply: "A husband lost, another might be found; Another son be born if one were slain. But I , when Hades holds my parents twain, Must brotherless abide for ever." (Murray) The point to note is that whereas in Valmiki a man is made to say that wives are available by the dozen in every land ...
... White Goddess. But from the description he gives of the lady, she would appear to be more black than white; for she seems to be intimately connected with the affairs—that is to say—the mysteries—of Hades and Hecate, underground worlds and midnight rites. She incarnates as the sow, although a white sow, she flows as the sap within plants and rises as passion and lust in man. We in India have a dark ...
... Seferis 47, 48, 49, 52, 54 Gethsemane 38 Gita 3, 13, 104 Gloucester 20, 21 Graves, Robert 31, 33, 77 Greece 48, 50, 52 Greek 32, 47, 53 Greek legend 4 H Hades 56, 77 Hamlet 10, 23, 38 Hebrides 103 Hecate 77 Homer 27 Horatio 23 I Ind 92 India 76, 78, 89, 91, 98, 104 Indra 31 Ionian 52 J ...
... is Vedantic mysticism. There is a look downward also below the life-formation and one enters into contact with forces and beings and creatures of another type, a portion of which is named Hell or Hades in Europe, and in India pātāl and rasā tal . But here we are speaking of another way, not a frontal or straight movement, but as I said, splitting the side and entering into it, something like ...
... White Goddess. But from the description he gives of the lady, she would appear to be more black than white; for she seems to be intimately connected with the affairs— that is to say—the mysteries—of Hades and Hecate, 1 "Douve dark and black." 2 "Douve shall be your name far off among the stones, Douve dark and black, Irreducible low water where effort shall spend itself." ...
... That is Vedantic mysticism. There is a look downward also below the life-formation and one enters into contact with forces and beings and creatures of another type, a portion of which is named Hell or Hades in Europe, and in India Patal and rasatal. But here we are speaking of another way, not a frontal or straight movement, but as I said, splitting the side and entering into it, something like opening ...
... White Goddess. But from the description he gives of the lady, she would appear to be more black than white; for she seems to be intimately connected with the affairs -that is to say -the mysteries -of Hades and Hecate, underground worlds and midnight rites. She incarnates as the sow, although a white sow, she flows as the sap within plants and rises as passion and lust in man. We in India have a dark ...
... Hyrtamus fell, Admetus was wounded, Charmidas slaughtered; Cirrhes died, though he faced not the blow while he hastened to shelter. Itylus, bright and beautiful, went down to night and to Hades. 97 As for the similes in llion, they are no doubt immediately explanatory and decorative, but they are also integral to the scheme and texture and meaning of the epic recital. The best ...
... returns to heaven, Pururavas has to follow and be united with her there, abandoning his kingdom on earth. In Love and Death, when Priyumvada dies stung by a snake, Ruru seeks her out in Patala (Hades), makes a deal with the Lord of Death's Other Kingdom, and returns with her to the earth. The theme is love, and separation, and the power of Love to achieve reunion. But in the Savitri story ...
... suffocates... sans je, on ne peut pas vivre... avec je, on étouffe . It is the central contradiction, the knot which holds everything. And the more one approaches the centre, the more it burns like Hades. The barber opened his bag. There was everything inside—for a shave, for cleansing the ears, paring the nails and powdering the armpits. He filled his basin at the tap, then squatted in front of ...
... in my face, stuck my passport in my hands: “There, you are the foreigner,” and once more I found myself like an imbecile, all alone in a country where indeed I had thought I was at home. But what in Hades could all their gods do to me! I couldn't care less for them, I asked nothing of them! I just wanted to be happy, that was all! I was confounded. I was divided between pain and revolt, like a ...
... in these regions Where thou wert born, pure-eyed Andromeda, There shall be some divine epiphany Of calm sweet-hearted pity for the world, And harsher gods shall fade into their Hades. 13 Andromeda's "sacrilege" rouses Poseidon himself who frightens and maddens Polydaon into megalomaniac postures. On being captured and brought before Polydaon, Smerdas confesses that Perseus ...
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