Hamlet : hero of Shakespeare’s Hamlet – the story created in ancient Germanic times.
... Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol. 1 Hamlet - A Crisis of The Evolving Soul THE consciousness that rules over the tragedy of Hamlet, the destiny that works itself out in the play of the forces portrayed in that great drama, are the consciousness and the destiny of the human soul at a most fateful crisis, a crucial turning-point in the course... has been initiated into the divine – daiva – nature. Culture, refinement, sensibility, understanding – all the graces of a truly rational being make Hamlet the very flower of an evolving humanity. Over against the personality of Hamlet stands another which represents false height, the wrong perfection, the counterfeit ideal. Polonius is humanity arrested in its path of straight development... sinks down in gloom and dejection and complete confusion. ------------------ ¹ Hamlet, Act II, Sc. 2. Page 188 Arjuna tided over the crisis as he could avail himself of the knowledge of the way out and the necessary help that was given by the Divine Guide. Hamlet bears the full crash of doom upon his head and makes others also share its consequences with him. ...
... cover of the British edition of his novel Dr. Zhivago seems to be the very image of the tragic hero. Indeed he reminds one of Hamlet as he stood on the ramparts of the castle of Elsinore. Curiously, the very first poem in the collection at the end of that book is entitled "Hamlet" and the significant cry rings out of it: Abba, Father, if it be possible Let this cup pass from me. Here is a sensitive... breath in pain. Even like the Son of Man, the exemplar and prototype, he has to share in the sufferings and errors of an ignorant humanity. He cannot escape and perhaps should not. It will not do like Hamlet again, to say The time is out of joint: – O cursed spite, That ever I was born to set it right!¹ No, the Son of Man and every man has to bear his cross heroically and triumphantly. Life is... view of things and it is characteristic of his consciousness. The first article of his faith then – it is not merely a faith but a deep and concrete perception – is that the world is one. ¹ Hamlet, Act I, Sc. 5. Page 185 Creation forms a global unity and there is one pulsation, one throb running through all life. In this regard he is a unanimist of the school of Jules Romains ...
... as he said just now about Debatār grāsh – a very good description. Sri Aurobindo : The girl there is created out of Tagore’s mind. For example, when you read Hamlet , you become Hamlet – you feel you are Hamlet. When you read r, you see Achilles living and moving and you become Achilles. That is what I mean by creativeness. On the other hand, in Shelley’s Skylark there is no skylark... Why should they not be considered "creative" if one feels devotion by them? Sri Aurobindo : Because you identify yourself with the feeling and not with the character or man as in the case of Hamlet. It must come out as a part of the poet's personality and the reader identifies himself with the world or personality which the poet has created or the experience which he had. Of course, anything ...
... better in English by the pentameter-translation of Flecker's: They stretched their hands for love of the other shore. The third example I have in mind is the heroic phrase in Shakespeare's Hamlet: Page 85 And in this harsh world draw thy breath in pain To tell my story. Perhaps the Shakespeare-line is the nearest to Milton in expression as well as technique. Here... may take up more than single lines and pit against that whole passage from Milton two from Shakespeare which have a motive not far removed. "To be no more" is the theme of Belial's speech. Here is Hamlet on the same subject: To be, or not to be: that is the question:... ... To die, to sleep; To sleep; perchance to dream; ay, there's the rub: For in that sleep of death what dreams... This would be worse. Our lengthy quotation, with several parts bearing a resemblance - in particular verbal turns as well as in general expressive eloquence - to portions in the speeches of Hamlet and Claudio, is sufficient to demonstrate our point about Milton's underlying restraint and Shakespeare's basic leapingness. But it will help also to bring out another difference between Milton and ...
... letters are, and still Hamlet will live for him. Is it in the sounds that the letters represent? sounds that are heard this moment and forgotten the next? But Hamlet is not forgotten—he lives on in your mind for ever. Is it in the impressions made on the material brain by the forgotten sounds? Nay the Sleep Self within you, even if you have never heard or read the play of Hamlet, will, if it is liberated... liberated by any adequate process of Yoga or powerful hypnosis, tell you about Hamlet. Shakespeare's drama-world never emanated from Shakespeare's mind, because it was in his mind and is in his mind; and you can know of Hamlet because your mind is part of the same universal mind as Shakespeare's—part, I say, in appearance, but in reality that mind is one and indivisible. All knowledge belongs to it by... unmoving; he is the motionless & silent spectator of a drama of which He himself is the stage, the theatre, the scenery, the actors and the acting. He is the poet Shakespeare watching Desdemona & Othello, Hamlet & the murderous Uncle, Rosalind & Jacques & Viola and all the other hundred multiplicities of himself acting & talking & rejoicing & suffering, all Himself & yet not himself, who sits there a silent ...
... stress and is not meant by Shakespeare to be philosophic. Well, let us turn to Hamlet. Here surely Shakespeare tries to mirror the intellect. Hamlet is his closest vision of the thinking mind. Critics have declared that the whole tragedy of Hamlet's irresolution comes of his thinking too much. I do not deny that Hamlet thinks in a manner and to a degree that no other character in Shakespeare does:... recoil and rebellion. Again, Hamlet talks of passing away from the turmoil of life: When we have shuffled off this mortal coil... A quiver of the entrails is felt in the midst of the idea. How different is the accent of Keats talking of dying away with the nightingale's song a final music falling on deaf ears: To thy high requiem become a sod. Once more take Hamlet on release from the obstructive... judgment was always superior to female judgment. "Of course," Mrs Shaw coolly replied, "after all, you married me and I you." It was the one time the old battering-ram was silenced. As Shakespeare's Hamlet would have put it: the engineer was hoist with his own petard. It is doubtful whether Ibsen and Strindberg will last as long as Shakespeare: it is certain that Shakespeare will outlast Shaw. But ...
... scenes. What about Edward II ? Marlowe had already moved towards the well-built drama. Page 374 Shakespeare's Hamlet Would you take, as many critics do, Hamlet as typically a mental being? How would you characterise his essential psychology? Hamlet is a Mind, an intellectual, but like many intellectuals a mind that looks too much all round and sees too many sides to have an ...
... him follow Hamlet out of the world - these things are not driven into us: they come in the next line with an intimate Page 108 acuteness which is the special power of well-chosen Anglo-Saxon speech. In the fourth semi-line we have an Anglo-Saxon verb with a Latin noun as its object. This verb has a directness, that noun has a dignity. Both are appropriate. What Hamlet has done in... less in succes-sion can constitute an especially expressive unit if this unit is succeeded by another in which Anglo-Saxon words make the whole sum or at least predominate. I have already cited the Hamlet-line, And in this harsh world draw thy breath in pain, a line which gives us an actual difficulty in breathing by its packed stresses and consonants. This line is preceded by a predominantly ...
... have heard that people have been helped in their sadhana by reading his poems. SRI AUROBINDO: That is a different matter. You don't understand what I mean. When you read Hamlet, you become Hamlet and you feel you are Hamlet. When you read Homer, you are Achilles living and moving and you feel you have become Achilles. That is what I mean by creativeness. On the other hand, in Shelley's "Skylark" ...
... to be counted, I feel that I am a criminal. I am a student of Shakespeare and his four tragedies have influenced me greatly: Macbeth, Hamlet, Othello and King Lear. Macbeth was a noble man but degenerated through selfish ambition into an unfaithful murderer; Hamlet was also a noble man, but besieged by dualities, indecisions and doubts, he ruined his soul, happiness of Ophelia and drew the curtain... compared to Vijay, I suddenly found myself covered with dirty linens without even realizing how dirty they were! And as I began to look at myself, I too found within myself the same Macbeth, the same Hamlet, the same Othello and the same King Lear. I realised that there were standards nobler and profounder than those described in the books of Law in the light of which I stood guilty and unworthy of any ...
... 1962, l80n -"The Ambrosia of Dionysus & Semele", 180n., 183n Greece, 73, 193-4, 196n., 281 Gupta, Atul, 234 Page 372 HALL, JOHN, 68n -"To His Tutor", 68n Hamlet, 185 Hardy, Thomas, 71, 88 Hegel, 246 Hilton, Walter, 114 -The Scale if Perfection, 115 Himalayas, the, 151 Hinduism, 242, 276-8, 280 Hitler, 274 Hobbes, 108 Homer, 52,... Blaise, 107-13 -Le Pari, 110 -Les Provinciales, 112 Pasternak, Boris; 185-90 -Dr. Zhivago, 185 -"Earth", 190n -"Encounter", 189n -"Fairy Tales", 189n -"Hamlet", 185 -"Magdalene II", 190n -"Miracle", 190n -"Winter Night", 189n Pax Britannica, 250 Persia, 284 Philolaus, 131 Pilate, 4 Plato, 247-8, 275n., 279 Poetry... 74n -The Secret Splendour, 68n., 74n -"Deluge",68n -"The Errant Life", 74n Shakespeare, 6, 52, 57, 71, 83, 85, 93, 168, 170, 176, 178, 233-4, 266 -A Midsummer Night's Dream, 57n -Hamlet, 163, 173, 175n., 185n -King Lear, 171, 173n -Macbeth, 170, 171n -Romeo & .Juliet, 176n -Sonnets, 178-9 -The Winter's Tale, 233n Shankara, 246, 277, 282 Shelley, 68, 71 ...
... than even ours, there is not a single individual fired with religious or spiritual passion. He did try to mirror the intellect: Hamlet is his closest vision of the intellect through the life-force. Yes, through the life-force, because, though among Shakespeare's heroes, Hamlet thinks the most puissantly, the most curiously, we have only to read When we have shuffled off this mortal coil ... and rebellion: the emotion surges up from the depths with a cutting and devouring power which does not easily allow whatever philosophic values it may have to stand with marked independence. However, Hamlet is as much of the pure intelligence in its reflective state as Shakespeare could seize; but nowhere do we come upon a mystic personation of his creative power. Page 99 Luckily,... opposed and continuous with it, the antithesis which is a mystic idea born of the poetic intelligence and moulding emotion and sensation with unrest of ingenuity and curiosity. The famous lines from Hamlet , There's a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will, bear again a mystic substance intuited, with the usual vitality, from the plane of the poetic intelligence ...
... to say a few things by way of introduction. There has been a controversy as to what can be called Shakespeare's masterpiece. Most people plump for Hamlet. Some are devotees of Lear and some favour Othello. My grandfather was all for Hamlet and my father swore by Othello. And I believe Sri Aurobindo chose Lear on the whole. My leaning is towards Macbeth as Shakespare's top reach in... tions. The pure detached intellect is nowhere in evidence. As to the mystic seerhood attributed to the Bard, we may grant that on occasion he comes out with astonishing insights. Thus he makes Hamlet declare: There's a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we may. He has also that superb phrase in one of his sonnets: the prophetic soul Of the wide world dreaming ...
... the British edition of his novel Dr. Zhivago seems to be the very image of the tragic hero. Indeed he reminds one of Hamlet as he stood on the ramparts of the castle of Elsinor. Curiously, the very first poem in the collection at the end of that book is entitled "Hamlet" and the significant cry rings out of it: Abba, Father, if it be possible Let this cup pass from me. ... in pain. Even like the Son of Man, the exemplar and prototype, he has to share in the sufferings and errors of an ignorant humanity. He cannot escape and perhaps should not. It will not do like Hamlet again, to say The time is out of joint. O cursed sprite That ever I was born to set it right. No, the son of man and every man has to bear his cross heroically and triumphantly ...
... and body; for certainly they did not come from outside. Shakespeare took his materials from this legend or that play, this chronicle or that history? His framework possibly, but not his creations; Hamlet did not come from the legend or the play, nor Cassius or King Henry from the history or the chronicle. No, Shakespeare contained in himself all his creatures, and therefore transcended & exceeded them;... Shakespeare's mind for a definite artistic purpose, but the thousands that never found verbal Page 390 expression, many of them with as splendid potentialities as those which did materialize in Hamlet and Macbeth seem to have risen & perished without any useful purpose. The same wastefulness is shown by Nature in her works; how many millions of lives does she not shower forth that a few may be selected ...
... directly mystical element is there and the sole Indianism is an allusion to the Bo-tree in the midst of four allusions from which three touch on European things: the epics of Homer, Shakespeare's Hamlet and Napoleon's career. The other poem is wittily quizzical about a cat. There just one phrase - "fur-footed Brahman" - brings India in. And that phrase too is not exactly a key-expression. On the... itself felt some time before the Lalians brought it to a focus soon after Independence. Let us look at the poems in full: A DREAM OF SURREAL SCIENCE One dreamed and saw a gland write Hamlet, drink At the Mermaid, capture immortality; A committee of hormones on the Aegean's brink Composed the Iliad and the Odyssey. ____________ 1 Mr. Lal, for some reason ...
... a man like any of his son's creations but not at all like his son. He could be like Hamlet or Macbeth or Falstaff or Romeo — at least some sort of Romeo he must have been if Shakespeare was at all to get born — but we do not imagine that Shakespeare's father was like Shakespeare who was the literary father of Hamlet and Macbeth and Falstaff and Romeo. So when Chaucer is described as the Father of English ...
... e's A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act V, Scene i, Lines 7-8. 143 Saint Joan: A Chronicle Play In Six Scenes And An Epilogue (1924) by George Bernard Shaw, Scene I. Page 97 as Hamlet says, we have to sometimes draw our "breath in pain", 144 where imagination is a door of escape to a happier world. When your life is measured out each day to two spoons of sugar, 100 cc. of milk... so forth. As he was going on in this strain, Mrs. Wilde, who'd been listening quietly, knitting at the same time, pulled him up, "What is this ? What is all this nonsense 144 The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, by William Shakespeare, Act V, Scene II. 145Pumpkins. 146Rasagollas and Pantuas are Indian sweets. 147 The Happy Prince and Other Tales (1888). Page 98 ...
... Gondwanaland, 223 Govind Singh, 396 Gray, Thomas, 115n Greece, 16, 25, 119, 159, 205-6, 211,2H, 238-41, 244-6 HADAMARD, PROF., 302 Haeckel, 140 Hamlet, 186-90 Harappa,238,243 Heard, Gerald, 260 Hegel, 318 Heine, 88 Henry, the Great, 90 Hera, 220 Heraclitus, 150,211,329 Hennes, 220 ... Sartre, Jean-Paul, 348, 351-2, 375-7 Satan, 267, 280 Sati, 268 Schweitzer, Albert, 359 Sedan, 106 Shakespeare, , 120, 160, 182, 194, 197, 251, 337 -Hamlet, 185, 188n., 386n -King Lear, 185 -Mm;beth, 185 Shankaracharya, 8, 215-16, 229, 276 Shaw, Bernard, 140, 145, 254 -Back to Methuselah, 140 ...
... and enjoy the savour of earthly pleasure, the embrace of physical bodies with each other, as it were. But Valmiki deals with experiences and realities that exceed the bounds of ordinary earthly life. Hamlet, Macbeth and King Lear are the highlights of Shakespearae's creation. Valmiki's heroes and heroine are Rama, Ravana and Sita. The characters depicted by Shakespeare are men as men are or would be.... characters of Valmiki contain something of the super-human, they overflow the bounds of humanity. It is not so difficult for us to grasp the clashes of sentiments that go to make up the character of Hamlet, for we are already quite familiar with them in our life; whereas the character of Rama which is not at all complex can yet hardly be adequately measured. There is a mystic vastness behind the character ...
... GANDHARVA,47 Ganges, 383 Germany, 133, 199 Gita, the, 6n., 9, 21-2, 58, 76-7, 83, 93, 105, 108, 112n., 125n., 143, 157,160-1 Great War, the, 323, 355 Greece, 199,214,419,421 HAMLET, 79 Heard, Gerald, 135 Heraclitus, 305 Homer, 209 Horace, 210 Huxley, Aldous, 136 INDIA, 3, 17,21,96,118,137,141,191-2, 199,209,285-6,419-20 Indo-China, 324 Indra, 208, 253... 186 St. Paul, 73 St. Vincent de Paul, 411 Sankhya,45,85 Satan, 46 Savitri, 163, 165 Second Empire, the, 418 Shakespeare, 79, 116n., 406 -Julius Caesar, 116n. -Hamlet, 72n. Shankara, 17, 21, 68, 71,403 Shelley, 209 Shiva, 129, 208, 339 Socrates, 116 Soma, 70, 208 Spanish Armada, the, 198 Sri Aurobindo, 3-4, 7-10, 17-19, 22, 25, 27, 29, 34, ...
... are wiped away: it is sheer black, bleak, cursed track, this creation. Yes, if you want to cure this ailing and insane world, if you have the ambition to strike a wholesome light in this ¹ Hamlet , Act I, Sc. V. ² Julius Caeser, Act III, Sc. II. Page 386 dismal darkness, if you exert yourself a little to turn it and set it on the right path, pour a little of goodwill... physical existence, (the astronauts are trying it today), but outside his physical or normal consciousness. He has to rise above the physical, material status of his being. There is the error that Hamlet committed in spite of his cultured and enlightened mind: not through the enlightened mind alone but through the enlightened heart, through the enlightened vital, even through an enlightened physical ...
... into the poise of the spiritual consciousness; this last line brings the same thing down to the outward character and temperament in life." (ibid, pp. 766-7). 26. ibid., p. 21. Cf. Hamlet: To be, or not to be that is the question; Whether' its nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles And by opposing end them... 49. A. Alvarez, The Shaping Spirit, p. 70. 50. Untermeyer, Modern American Poetry, p. 336. 51. The Hudson Review, Autumn 1957, p. 377. 52. The contrast between Hamlet, father and son, has been brilliantly brought out by Peter Alexander in his Northcliffe Lectures on this subject. 53. C. Day Lewis, The Aeneid of Virgil, p. 137 54. The English ...
... "That strain...was of a higher mood", but happily there are more enjoyable strains as well. One such is the sonnet, A Dream of Surreal Science: One dreamed and saw a gland write Hamlet, drink At the Mermaid, capture immortality; A committee of hormones on the Aegean's brink Composed the Iliad and the Odyssey. A thyroid, meditating almost nude... faith: Coomood, our fragile flowers will weave A bond that steel cannot divide, nor death dissever. 113 It is clear the play was intended to have a happy ending—a purposeful Hamlet achieving his father's crown and marrying a determined Ophelia! The blank verse is colourful and the imagery is rich, and Page 51 although we are reading verse that wasn't ...
... him in the lines that follow straining these resources to try and get something equal to the greatness of this flight but failing except perhaps partly for one line only. Or take those two lines in Hamlet . 4 They arise out of a rapid series of violent melodramatic events but they have a quite different ring from all that surrounds them, however powerful that may be. They come from another plane... the same anywhere and in any context. We have passed from Page 64 the particular to the universal, to a voice from the cosmic self, to a poignant reaction of the soul of man and not of Hamlet alone to the pain and sorrow of this world and its longing for some unknown felicity beyond. Virgil's O passi graviora, dabit deus his quoque finem.... ...forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit ...
... force: Romeo by the side of Juliet - O here Will I set up my everlasting rest And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars From this world-wearied flesh - Page 72 or Hamlet with his father's ghost - the sepulchre Wherein we saw thee quietly inurned Hath oped his ponderous and marble jaws, To cast thee up again! What may this mean, That thou,... Why should a dog, a horse, a rat have life, And thou no breath at all? Thou'lt come no more, Never, never, never, never, never! Pray you, undo this button: thank you, sir - Hamlet with a profound insight converting personal pathos into" a world-cry about whose third line a critic observes, "the breast actually labours to get through it": If thou didst ever hold me in thy ...
... for her whom thou seekest. 146) I find in Shakespeare a far greater & more consistent universalist than the Greeks. All his creations are universal types from Lancelot Gobbo & his dog up to Lear & Hamlet. 147) The Greeks sought universality by omitting all finer individual touches; Shakespeare sought it more successfully by universalising the rarest individual details of character. That which Nature... Shakespeare, who invented the figure of holding up the mirror to Nature, was the one poet who never condescended to a copy, a photograph or a shadow. The reader who sees in Falstaff, Macbeth, Lear or Hamlet imitations of Nature, has either no inner eye of the soul or has been hypnotised by a formula. 149) Where in material Nature wilt thou find Falstaff, Macbeth or Lear? Shadows & hints of them she ...
... directly mystical element is there and the sole Indianism is an allusion to the Bo-tree in the midst of four allusions from which three touch on European things: the epics of Homer, Shakespeare's Hamlet and Napoleon's career. The other poem is wittily quizzical about a cat. There just one phrase—"fur-footed Brahman"—brings India in. And that phrase too is not exactly a key-expression. On the score... itself felt some time before the Lalians brought it to a focus soon after Independence. Let us look at the poems in full: A Dream of Surreal Science 1 One dreamed and saw a gland write Hamlet, At the Mermaid, capture immortality; A committee of hormones on the Aegean's brink Composed the Iliad A thyroid, meditating almost nude Under the Bo-tree, saw the ...
... limit the passage to the vital plane 'the vital in its excited thrill' and cite as counter-example of poetry with the Overhead touch the lines of Hamlet: Absent thee from felicity awhile, And in this harsh world draw thy breath in pain. Hamlet (5.2. 351-52) And also the phrase from The Tempest , 'in the dark backward and abysm of time'. Interestingly, Sethna recounts an ...
... 149, 150 146—I find in Shakespeare a far greater and more consistent universalist than the Greeks. All his creatures are universal types from Lancelot Gobbo and his dog up to Lear and Hamlet. 147—The Greeks sought universality by omitting all finer individual touches; Shakespeare sought it more successfully by universalising the rarest individual details of character. That which Nature... 148—Shakespeare, who invented the figure of holding up the mirror to Nature, was the one poet who never condescended to a copy, a photograph or a shadow. The reader who sees in Falstaff, Macbeth, Lear or Hamlet imitations of Nature, has either no inner eye of the soul or has been hypnotised by a formula. 149—Where in material Nature wilt thou find Falstaff, Macbeth or Lear? Shadows and hints of them she ...
... means of getting over the recoil from life? Doubfiess, an easy way out would be to answer with some analogue to the "bare Page 223 bodkin" suggested by the famous situation that faced Hamlet; To be or not to be - that is the question! But I am not a violent nature. Besides, as the Mother has said, self-undoing does not - in a perspective of rebirth -solve any problem. Actually... the hidden listener to the universe's subtle hints, the undertones and overtones of cosmic existence, has a prettier configuration. Enough of comments on "the counterfeit presentment", as Hamlet would have said, of what modern slang would term my "mug". Let me turn to more congenial topics. Apropos of my train of thought following your mention of "Plato's writings" in connection with my letters ...
... pp. 17-34. Page 362 Photo Pino Marchese, Auroville References 1. Secret of Childhood (Longmans). 2. Muntessori Method, pp. 50 seq. ?, Hamlet. 4 .The Secret of Childhood. 5. Hamlet. 6. Here we see a good example of Montessori's maxim, "Teach teaching, not correcting" and also of a "Lesson in Grace and Courtesy". 7. It reminds one of the man at ...
... delineate Odysseus as a middle term between the Achilles of the Iliad and the Aeneas of Virgil's poem. Between Hamlet, father, the old-world heroic hero who smote the sledded Polacks on the ice, and Horatio the self-poised humanist who is not passion's slave, Shakespeare places Hamlet, the Prince, who is both his father's son and the scholar from Wittenberg. 52 At the risk of oversimplification ...
... 50 Gautama. 2.36 Page 311 Gita, the, 5, 38, 68, 112 Greece , 103 Gundari, 258 Gupta, Robi, 192 HAMLET, 72 Heruka, 268 Himalaya , 237, 281n. Hiranyagarbha, 143, 256 Hugo, Victor, 191 ILIAD, 22 India , 10-12, 24-5, 57, 112, 189, 254 ... Saraha, 273, 278, 281-2 Sarama, 271 Saraswati, 138 Satyavan, 26-30 Savitri, 27-31, 112 Shabara,288 Shakespeare, 38n., 58, 59n. –Hamlet, 22 –Macbeth, 38n. –Ruhard the Third, 59n. Shankara, 195 Shanti, 274-5 Shantipada, 267 Shastri, Pandit Haraprasad, 254 Shiva, 13, 41 ...
... had a thousand noses, Horns whelk'd and waved like the enridged sea. It was some fiend. . . Glo. 'The fiend, the fiend'. He led me to that place.¹ The last one is the opening scene of Hamlet, an extraordinary scene familiar to the whole world. Francisco at his post. Enter to him Barnardo Bar. Who's there? Fran. Nay, answer me. Stand and unfold yourself. Bar. Long live... syllables charged with dynamic force, creative consciousness. It is that which induces life into the body of a clay image, it is that which awakens the Divinity, establishes Him in a dead material ¹ Hamlet, Act I, Sc. 1. Page 175 form. Shakespeare has, as it were, instilled his life's breath into his words and made them move and live as living creatures, physical beings upon earth. ...
... frame here attained an angular incline (cf. tiryak , as the bird is called in Sanskrit), but to maintain even that position it was not possible to increase or enlarge the head. It is not idly that Hamlet exclaims: What a piece of work is a man!... how infinite in faculties! in form and moving how express and admirable!... the beauty of the world! the paragon of animals!¹ The perfection of the... 'infinite faculty' or multiple functioning referred to by Shakespeare. This is the very characteristic character of man both with regard to his physical and psychological make-up. The ¹ Shakespeare, Hamlet , Act 2, Sc. 2 Page 79 other species are, everyone of them, more or less, a specialised formation; we have there a closed system, a fixed and definite physical mould and pattern of ...
... Europe, 297, 383 FAR EAST, THE, 54 Faust, 397 France, 78, 141 GANGES, THE, 85n George VI, 117 Gita, the, 173, 198,208-9,248, 267,272, 284, 297, 337, 345 Goethe, 244n HAMLET, 387 Hapsburgs, the, 338 Helen, 399 Himalayas, the, 224 Hitler, 338 Hohenzollerns, the, 338 407 Page 407 ILA, 189 Ilion, 399 India, 32, 106... 379 Russia, 196 SAHARA, 141, 313 Sankhya, 182, 186, 279 Sarama, 330 Saraswati, 189 Sati, 184 Satyavan, 242-6 Savitri, 242-6, 252-3, 307 Shakespeare, 228, 386, 391 – Hamlet, 386n – Julius Caesar, 386n – King Lear, 391n Shankara, 104-5, 309, 344 Sindhus, 330 Shiva, 106, 182, 184, 207, 297 Socrates, 196,297, 379 Soma, 330 Sri Aurobindo, 3 ...
... world more full of beauty Than thou hadst dreamed of. PERSEUS I shall yet be glad with thee, O Iolaus, in thy father's halls, But I would not as yet be known in Syria. Is there no pleasant hamlet near, hedged in With orchard walls and green with unripe corn And washed with bright and flitting waves, where I Can harbour with the kindly village folk And wake to cock-crow in the morning hours ...
... On the white summit of eternity 609 Once again thou hast climbed, O moon . . . 631 One day, and all the half-dead is done 542 One dreamed and saw a gland write Hamlet . . . 614 Out from the Silence, out from the Silence 581 Out of a seeming void and dark-winged sleep 604 Out of a still immensity we came 589 Outspread a ...
... thought it a brilliant invention of the printer's devil; others opined that in his wild excitement the editor's Page 322 cockney-made pen had dropped an "h"; others held that our Calcutta Hamlet, unlike the Shakespearian, cannot distinguish between a mouse and a rhododendron. A learned Government professor assures us, however, that rhodon is Greek for a rose and that Mr. Ghose has found ...
... records. If Science is true, what more absurd, paradoxical and Rabelaisian miracle can there be than this, that a republic of small animalcules forming a mass of grey matter planned Austerlitz, wrote Hamlet or formulated the Vedanta philosophy? If I believed that strange dogma, I should no longer hold myself entitled to disbelieve anything. Materialism seems to me the most daring of occultisms, the most ...
... the very greatest genius as well as much of a lesser but still high order. A third type presents vividly the religious beliefs and feelings of the people, the life of court and city and village and hamlet, of landholder and trader and artisan and peasant. The bulk of the work done in the regional tongues falls under one or other of these heads, but there are variations such as the religio-ethical and ...
... chemical secretions and physiological processes manages by their activity on the nerves and brain of a Shakespeare or a Plato to produce or could be perhaps the dynamic occasion for the production of a Hamlet or a Symposium or a Republic ; but we fail to discover or appreciate how such material movements could have composed or necessitated the composition of these highest points of thought and literature: ...
... attention of the scientist, the reasoning of the philosopher. Call it mechanical cerebration, if you will, but no mere mechanism of grey stuff of brain can explain these things; a gland cannot write Hamlet or pulp of brain work out a system of metaphysics. There is no parity, kinship or visible equation between the alleged cause or agent on the one side and on the other the effect and its observable ...
... distortion of reality and of the image of man would one day have serious consequences and cause the kind of “postmodernist” confusion to which we are now subject. One dreamed and saw a gland write Hamlet, drink At the Mermaid, capture immortality; A committee of hormones on the Aegean’s brink Composed the Iliad and the Odyssey. A thyroid, meditating almost nude Under the Bo-tree, ...
... several composers among her acquaintances. One of them was Ambroise Thomas, a celebrity at the time because of his twenty operas – foremost Mignon, which is still in the international repertoire, and Hamlet. Thomas would become Director of the Paris Conservatory of music. He was probably the composer who, as the Mother said, was so skilled at the intricate art of orchestrating music – ‘it’s like higher ...
... what was original in him has become the common stock of contemporary thought, it was his power and forcefulness that made it so—it is no more to be counted against him than the deplorable fact that Hamlet is only a "string of quotations" is damaging to Shakespeare! I do not share your exasperation against Shavianism—I find it a delightful note and am thankful to Shaw for being so refreshingly different ...
... moonshine. Besides, where would you go? To Brindavan? For what? Sri Krishna's Light? Page 41 But as a God He must pervade all space: How could He live a prisoner king in one Small hamlet? Come, a householder must keep His own dear house in order first and last. Frustration? Can one stave it off by being A lone escapist, a recreant? Furthermore, How can a son his duty shirk to his own ...
... mountain that is Macbeth uplifts, gigantically, an almost straight sky-line. But even Shakespeare is now and then liable to slips which make us wish he had done a little "blotting". Take the lines (from Hamlet): ...When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin? who would fardels bear... One doubts if the concluding "bear" is an embellishment, almost repeating as it does ...
... be far from you and both she and the Lord hold you always in their arms. Try to be conscious of this fact and do not allow your heart and mind to be troubled, no matter how many outward "ills" (as Hamlet would say) "the flesh is heir to". The Divine Presence has been established in your life: you have only to grow aware of it. Once you realise that it is ever accompanying you, all those "ills" will ...
... the karana sarira , the Causal Sheath, revealed by the seers of the Upanishads. The descent of this Causal Body and its merging with our own flesh which is heir to a thousand natural shocks, as Hamlet tells us, would be, to my understanding, the fullest form of what Sri Aurobindo calls physical transformation. (24.1.1995) While there is universal condemnation of terrorism, a good ...
... and trips up again and again on the way, a physical organism completely harmonious, shapely, secure in place of one seeking health and beauty and longevity but with a flesh which is, as Shakespeare's Hamlet saw, heir to a thousand ills and doomed finally to degenerate and die. In manifestation the Last Things can be as the First because "evolution" is only the gradual outbreak of a Supermind buried in ...
... and both she and the Lord hold you always in their arms. Try to be conscious of this fact and don't allow your heart to be vexed, your mind to be clouded, no matter how many outward "ills" (as Hamlet would say) "the flesh is heir to." The Divine Presence has been established in your life: you have only to grow aware of it all the time. Once you realise that it is ever accompanying you, all those ...
... adjectival torrent in which you have sunk the old fellow - "What a smug, self-satisfied, arrogant, puffed-up, complacent, pretentious and hopelessly gullible intellectual booby I was" - out Hamlets Hamlet in his passionate polysyllabic pessimistic mood, as when he cries out - How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable Are to me now the uses of this world - or in a grander gloomy ...
... it, are here. The "unimaginable land" on which the poet has planted his feet is evoked by this two-footed concluding phrase as a sudden short-cut to the Ineffable Shakespeare in the famous Hamlet-soliloquy wrote of death as Page 19 The undiscovered country from whose bourne No traveller returns.... Arjava points to the Immortal Consciousness, the goal of the spiritual ...
... them and laughed, saying that Sri Aurobindo himself told her of the ceiling-report and informed her of its having been actually put in writing by someone. (By the way, Krishna Prem's quotation from Hamlet is slightly off the mark: Shakespeare uses the word "flesh" and not "earth" in the first part of it. Secondly, the phrase Krishna Prem employs and you endorse - "Those who have gone far enough ...
... Browning refer to the Roman poet Lucretius as denying divinely the Divine? Marking how adaptable to the genuine poet's tirelessly corrective passion for perfection in his work is that faith of Hamlet - There's a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we may - we might be right to think: "If one consciously puts oneself in tune with a mystical realm one is likely ...
... rejection of the touch-and-go. He likes to argue, and yet sometimes within the texture of his logical prose, there are majestic units combining revelation and argument: The writing of Hamlet would stand for Shakespeare's finest and most far-reaching self-expression - the profound cry of the heart's rosy blood grown strange and baffled by reflection of the brain's grey cells. The drinking ...
... what was original in him has become the common stock of contemporary thought, it was his power and forcefulness that made it so—it is no more to be counted against him than the deplorable fact that Hamlet is only "a string of quotations" is damaging to Shakespeare! I do not share your exasperation against Shavianism—I find in it a delightful note and am thankful to Shaw for being so refreshingly different ...
... He guides and governs. He is then Isha, the Lord or Ruler. To use a human parallel, Shakespeare pouring himself out in a hundred names and forms, Desdemona, Othello, Iago, Viola, Rosalind, Macbeth, Hamlet, Lear, Cymbeline is using his power of Avidya to become the lord and ruler of a wonderful imaginary world. Shakespeare putting aside his works and returning to his own single & sufficient existence ...
... dictating oriental tales to his valet while dressing for dinners to which he had been invited: not in the least an irrational method — we can well imagine Shakespeare to have dashed off pages of Hamlet in the green room while some actor was tidying himself up and chatting to him over his shoulder. For inspiration acts according to the peculiarities of a writer. Schiller could not compose his dramas ...
... nt's on a personnage out of a classic drama in verse was proved to have lasted three-quarters of an hour. "No doubt," remarks Lucas, "burglars in England might discuss the character of Hamlet in a public-house; but no magistrate would believe it." And, just as the apache, the restauranteur or the chorus-girl may talk with some esprit about Claudel, Camus, Picasso or perhaps ...
... our minds and devotion in our hearts. Just because something occurs in a certain way, we are not justified in thinking that this way is divinely ordained. Of course, we have to believe — with Hamlet — that There's a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we may. The Supreme has an over-all action and guides the world's evolution subtly, secretly, on the whole, but in ...
... pristine state? Then know ye this illness will go if I see Him, the maker of illusions, the youthful one who measured the world. Should you really wish to save me, then take me forth to his home in the hamlet of the cowherds and leave me there. The rumour is already spread over the land that I fled with Him and went the lonely way, leaving all of you behind — my parents, relations and friends. The ...
... pristine state? Then know ye this illness will go if I see Him, the maker of illusions, the youthful one who measured the world. Should you really wish to save me, then take me forth to his home in the hamlet of the cowherds and leave me there. The rumour is already spread over the land that I fled with Him and went the lonely way, leaving all of you behind—my parents, relations and friends. The tongue ...
... practice, and to open up my grey matter if possible, though I doubt it very much. Again doubt! Yes, Sir, doubt at every blessed nook and corner. You must have been St. Thomas in a past life, also Hamlet, an Academic philosopher, and several other things. If I can develop the style, I hope the rest will follow—at least you have made me believe so. Of course As regards poetry, there again ...
... north India in 1857. Page 14 Childhood The Maruthu brothers were the sons of Udayar Servai and Anandayer. Periya Maruthu was born on 15 December 1748 in a small hamlet called Narikkudi near Aruppukkottai in the Ramnad principal state. In 1753 the younger Maruthu Pandiyar was born in Ramnad. Their father Udayar Servai served as a General in the Ramnad state military ...
... al opinions, but a clever young man, who, from the elementary schools, had lately risen to the university, informed us, as a fact of which we were unaccountably ignorant, Page 404 that Hamlet is the best of Shakespeare's plays. After this the subject was closed. Every clergyman in America knows why Rome fell: it was owing to the corruption of morals depicted by Juvenal and Petronius. The ...
... a modicum of aspiration perhaps. This was then the task given to all to battle through and conquer here below. The scene changed completely. A mid-summer night's dream turned almost into a sombre Hamlet-tragedy. The first sign of this Return, this resumption of life as it is, was the re-assertion of the individual, the feedom of the personal unit. Because of the increased number of people and ...
... chemical secretions and physiological processes manages by their activity on the nerves and brain of a Shakespeare or a Plato to produce or could be perhaps the dynamic occasion for the production of a Hamlet or a Symposium or a Republic. But if we examine this kind of explanation, we fail to discover or appreciate how such material movements could have composed or necessitated the composition of these ...
... kind that have become intimate companions to our lips of which the source we do not know. When we read the mantras of Dirghatama we are likely to exclaim even as the villager did when he first saw Hamlet played in London, "It is full of quotations." You must have already noticed that the utterance of Dirghatama carries a peculiar turn, even perhaps a twist. In fact his mantras are an enigma ...
... an Achilles or a Hector, of a Roland or a Kama; they were powers piled up in sheer strength, rather like masses of granite. The modern consciousness partakes of the complexity of a Hamlet and the goodness of a Myishkin. Especially after the release of atomic power, man holds in his grip the means of complete self-annihilation and also the means of forging a new order of peace and ...
... together, or all three together. But it is the same sadhana always. 28 Poetic composition, whether one is engaged in writing a haiku, a sonnet, an elegy, an Aeschylean tragedy, a play like Hamlet or Faust, or a stupendous epic like the Mahabharata, poses the same basic problem of paradigmatic expression and effective communication, yet the poetic technique involved cannot be the same ...
... the six-point programme. This gave some respite, almost a lull; and Sri Aurobindo wrote and spoke in the coming weeks and months with the assurance and urgency of the man who knew and could say like Hamlet: "It will be short; the interim is mine!" The Kumartuli speech, the launching of the Dharma, the Hooghly Conference, the Sylhet Conference were pointers to the new directions of Sri Aurobindo's ...
... can team the other three purposively together, and also link them to the creative centre. Unfortunately, current educational systems have no idea of psychic education - thus tragi-comically playing Hamlet without the Prince of Denmark. In their early years, children do have intimations of a higher consciousness which may puzzle or even startle their parents and elders. Page 514 As ...
... Writing on 'Foresight' in February 1950, the Mother too has said: "By Yogic discipline one can, not only foresee destiny, but can alter it, change it almost wholly." Page 705 Indian Hamlet. The question of questions was: Were Indians now at least to cooperate with the British to resist a possible Japanese invasion, or were they to welcome the Japanese as liberators, - or were they ...
... contemporaries is a matter of history and has nothing to do with appreciation of his poetry. It may interest me as a study of human character & intellect but I have no concern with it when I am reading Hamlet or even when I am reading the Sonnets; on the contrary it may often come between me and the genuine revelation of the poet in his work, for actions seldom reveal more than the outer, bodily and sensational ...
... offhand to please me, but the utilitarian system can stand on another basis than Bentham supplies. Keshav —Yours is a curious position, Broome. You are one of those who would expunge the part of Hamlet from the play that bears his name. Your religion is Christianity without Christ, your morality Benthamism without Bentham. Nevertheless my guns are so pointed that they will breach any wall you choose ...
... Sonnets from Manuscripts (Circa 1934-1947) Collected Poems A Dream of Surreal Science Know more > One dreamed and saw a gland write Hamlet, drink At the Mermaid, capture immortality; A committee of hormones on the Aegean's brink Composed the Iliad and the Odyssey. A thyroid, meditating almost nude Under the Bo-tree, saw the ...
... e. Is the life of a great poet, either, made up only of magnificent and important things? How many "trivial" things had to be dealt with and done before there could be produced a King Lear or a Hamlet ! Again, according to your own reasoning, would not people be justified in mocking at your pother—so they would call it, I do not—about metre and scansion and how many ways a syllable can be read? ...
... great poet, either, made up only of magnificent and important things? How many "trivial" things had to be dealt with and done before there could Page 672 be produced a King Lear or a Hamlet ! Again, according to your own reasoning, would not people be justified in mocking at your pother—so they would call it, I do not—about metre and scansion and how many ways a syllable can be read? ...
... He is the motionless and silent spectator of a drama of which He himself is the stage, the theatre, the scenery, the actors and the acting. He is the poet Shakespeare watching Desdemona and Othello, Hamlet and the murderous Uncle, Rosalind and Jacques and Viola, and all the other hundred multiplicities of himself acting and talking and rejoicing and suffering, all himself and yet not himself, who sits ...
... letter to you I labelled as a master of what you, reacting adversely to one of the three passages I had culled from the early Sri Aurobindo, had misnamed "linguistic clutter". I gave an example from Hamlet. Perhaps your Pound would wag his beard in disapproval at the grandiose elocutionary excess of the third line in Macbeth's famous soliloquy after murdering King Duncan: Will all great Neptune's ...
... the Porter's Page 360 expression in Shakespeare's Macbeth: . . . go the primrose way to the everlasting bonfire" or else as in Ophelia's speech to her - : brother Laertes in Hamlet: Do not, as some ungracious pastors do, Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven, Whiles, like a puff'd and reckless libertine, Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads, ...
... In maiden meditation, fancy-free, while his In the dark backward and abysm of time is all overtones. Both undertones and overtones are present in those lines we have quoted from Hamlet more than once: Absent thee from felicity a while And in this harsh world draw thy breath in pain. If I may pick a longer passage to illustrate an intermixture of lines with neither undertones ...
... thought and emotion and the pattern of sound. Unless we are dealing with nonsense rhymes or pure sound-effects, it is the thought and the emotion that give the sounds their meaning. The words in the Hamlet passage which we must emphasize because of their meaning are also the words in which the most important sound-effects are found. The h 's, l' s, and so on become associated with these words and take ...
... accidentally in Shakespeare. Not only is the thrill different from the more obvious kind of suggestion like the lines with a hint analogous to the second Keats-quotation's - the question asked by Hamlet to his father's ghost about his appearing as he does, So horribly to shake our dispositions With thoughts beyond the reaches of our souls. The thrill differs also from mystical-seeming ...
... which you once described as "super-Aeschylean" in style, out-vedas the Veda in its reckless association of disparate images to figure supramaterial and occult entities and significances! The Hamlet-lines you quote from Shakespeare are a good instance of the liberty with images which romantic poetry takes — to the complete flabbergasting of the Johnsonian critic. I believe, 1. In ...
... music and Bharatnatyam or not? By and by it dawned on me that much depends on what we understand by culture and what we understand by progress. * * * between my house in a remote hamlet in Orissa and the sea lay a vast meadow, evergreen and ever quiet but for the majestic roar of the sea. Twilight spread an almost uncanny it serene calm over it. A huge rainbow spanned the ...
... 415 and p.274) Knowing as he does the value of comparison as a critical tool, Sethna does not stop with this verbal analysis but goes on to compare the lines with a short utterance by Hamlet: Page 285 Who would fardels bear To grunt and sweat under a weary life? “Wordsworth is speaking, as it were, from the grey cells. They are changing ...
... chemical secretions and physiological processes manages by their activity on the nerves and brain of a Shakespeare or a Plato to produce or could be perhaps the dynamic occasion for the production of a Hamlet or a Symposium or a Republic ; but we fail to discover or appreciate how such material movements could have composed or necessitated the composition of these highest points of thought and literature ...
... other lines of his which have this note, dealing as he always does with life, with vital emotions and 'I spoke as one who ne'er would speak again And as a dying man to dying men. 2 Hamlet, V.ii. Page 28 reactions or the thoughts that spring out in the life-mind under the pressure of life. It is not any strict adhesion to a transcendental view of things that ...
... Shakespeare. Is the life of a great poet either made up only of magnificent and important things? How many "trivial" things had to be dealt with and done before there could be produced a "King Lear" or a "Hamlet"? Again, according to your own reasoning, would Page 295 not people be justified in mocking at your pother—so they would call it, I do not—about metre and scansion and how many ways ...
... Increasing number of lagos are found wandering about in their blind hunt for victims of suspicion and doubt. I shudder to enter into my own heart lest I may have to confess to myself the presence of Hamlet and his tragic dilemma to be or not to be. I want to believe, if I can, that however imperfect and dim the present forms, the strivings of love, in the domestic and social life, will not end in ...
... expenses would have been curtailed. Since the Sessions Court declared me innocent of the charges, Norton's plot was sadly shorn of its glory and elegance. By leaving the Prince of Denmark out of Hamlet the humourless judge, Beachcroft, damaged the greatest poem of the twentieth century.... Norton's other agony was that some of * the witnesses too seemed so cussed that they had wholly refused to ...
... By sipping at them rapture-drunk are mine. Enough? Amen! 17 II. From Sri Aurobindo 's Collected Poems: (1) A Dream of Surreal Science One dreamed and saw a gland write Hamlet, drink At the Mermaid, capture immortality; A committee of hormones on the Aegean's brink Composed the Iliad and the Odyssey. A thyroid, meditating almost nude Under the ...
... over there, this plethora of shoes of various sorts made by Govindaraj, 95 reminds me of a queer vision I had long, long ago. I've spoken about it earlier, that I have something of the nature of Hamlet in me. Sri Aurobindo said that, all the time, all the time, I Hamletise! I don't know whether you understand the meaning of the word. When I'm faced with a situation where I can't take a decision ...
... × The Tempest , I. ii. 49. × Hamlet , V. ii. 361-2. × Night to day. × ...
... based on the story of the Theben king, Oedipus, and his daughter Antigone, or else, the Orestenian trilogy of Aeschylus dealing with the story of king Agamemnon and his son Orestes – Orestes was the Hamlet of Greek tragedy. The fourth piece in a tetralogy used to be something amusing, like a farce that rounded off the main programme in a Yatra performance of Bengal. But the theme of tragic drama in ...
... 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 Japan 92 Jeanne ...
... separate dignity and greatness, giving free scope to the inherent power of sound, voice and articulation. Hence the inner Being, the true Being of delight, does not always relish even the sweet noise – as Hamlet speaks out: it is all words, words, words – or as Jayadeva declares: Mukharam adhiram tyaja mañjiram (Take away your restless garrulous anklets.) Pasyanti vak is the spontaneous ...
... perhaps. This was the task given to all of us—to battle through and conquer here below. The scene changed completely. A mid-summer-night's dream turned Page 37 almost into a sombre Hamlet tragedy. The first sign of this return, this resumption of life as it is, was the reassertion of the individual, the freedom of the personal unit. Because of the increased number of people and ...
... Horns whelked and wav'd like the enridged sea. It was some fiend... Page 22 Glo. 'The fiend, the fiend': he led me to that place. The last one is the opening scene of Hamlet, an extraordinary scene familiar to the whole world. (Francisco at his post. Enter to him Barnardo) Bar. Who's there? Fran. Nay, answer me. Stand and unfold yourself. Bar ...
... the most poetic features in poetry. Othello's Speak of me as I am; nothing extenuate… (Othello, V. ii. 324) Or Hamlet's ... the rest is silence... (Hamlet, V. ii. 372) Or when Virgil's Orpheus says: Heu sed non tua palmas... These are the immense outpourings from the depth of the Page 140 human heart. But ...
... frame here attained an angular incline (cf. tiryak, as the bird is called in Sanskrit), but to maintain even that position it was not possible to increase or enlarge the head. It is not idly that Hamlet exclaims: "What a piece of work is man!...how infinite in faculty...in form and moving how express and admirable...the beauty of the world...the paragon of animals!" The perfection of ...
... kind that have become intimate companions to our lips of which the source we do not know. When we read the mantras of Dirghatama we are likely to exclaim even as the villager did when he first saw Hamlet played in London, "It is full of quotations." You must have already noticed that the utterance of Dirghatama carries a peculiar turn, even perhaps a twist. In fact his mantras are an enigma, a ...
... Whether one is for or against the Divine, whether one is a God or an Asura, each in his own way contributes to the progressive realisation of ------------------------------- * Hamlet, Act v, Sc. ii Page 386 the Cosmic Purpose. From a certain point of view even it may seem as though nothing helps or hinders, all are like a straw in a rushing current. In our ...
... putting his own question into my mouth. SRI AUROBINDO: These poems cannot be considered creative, because you identify yourself only with the feeling and not with a man or character as in the case of Hamlet. They do not create a world for you. A creative poem must come out of a part of the poet's personality and you can't help identifying yourself with the world or the personality the poet has created ...
... of our talk, as they say in French, 'Retournons a nos moutons. 161 As I was saying, the friend requested me to tell you something. I didn't know what to do, as I said; I was thinking like Hamlet: to be or not to be, to say or not to say; but since the friend was young and a former student of mine, and said it in a very mellow, soft, sweet voice, tender-heartedly, my soft heart couldn't disappoint ...
... seriousness proclaim in Sri Aurobindo's words − those radiant lines, bursting, as it were, with a suppressed laughter: A DREAM OF SURREAL SCIENCE One dreamed and saw a gland write Hamlet, drink At the Mermaid, capture immortality; A committee of hormones on the Aegean's brink Composed the Iliad and the Odyssey. A thyroid, meditating almost nude ...
... can really pluck the heart of the cosmic puzzle?121 In 'A Dream of Surreal Science' Sri Aurobindo has summed up the Materialist Denial with a touch of whimsy: One dreamed and saw a gland write Hamlet, drink At the Mermaid, capture immortality; A committee of hormones on the Aegean's brink Composed the Iliad and the Odyssey. A thyroid, meditating almost nude Under the ...
... 294, 318,491, 513,535 Englishman, The, I'll, 340 Epictetus, 48 Eric, 119,141ff, 642,646; set in Norwegian Heroic Age, 141; gods active behind the scenes, 142; Aslaug and Hamlet, 145; not Thor but Freya, 145 Essays on the Gita, 283, 404, 448, 463ff; Gita's place in India's scriptural literature, 464; presenting the essential message, 464; Arjuna-Krishna, Nara-Narayana ...
... 15 This may be compared with a later sonnet, A Dream of Surreal Science, in which the same idea is expressed in even more pointedly satirical terms: One dreamed and saw a gland write Hamlet, drink At the Mermaid, capture immortality; A committee of hormones on the Aegean's brink Composed the Iliad and the Odyssey. A thyroid, meditating almost nude Under ...
... adaptability to occult experiments! - the association was also to cause her a profound disquiet, almost a shattering disenchantment. Occultism could, on one's first exposure to it, make one exclaim with Hamlet: There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy. Something or other is materialised as it were from nowhere; things move and lurch inexplicably; ...
... borrow from a poem of Sri Aurobindo's. This is the age of Positivism. Science is cold denial. From her "searching gaze mysticism shrank out-mystified." 1 One dreamed and saw a gland write Hamlet . . . A committee of hormones on the Aegean's brink Composed the Iliad and the Odyssey. A thyroid, meditating almost nude Under the Bo-tree, saw the eternal Light . . . ...
... Dreams" has also a wide sweep of comprehension, evidently the crystallisation of many sessions of intellectual and psychic exploration. "To sleep, perchance to dream, ay, there's the rub": thus Hamlet. Are dreams mere mental frippery? - perhaps no more than a sign of indigestion? Are dreams but lies, vain hopes and practical jokes? Samuel Daniel has no use for dreams: Cease dreams, th'Images ...
... an announcement, almost a promise: Page 688 This wonderful world of delight waiting at our gates for our call, to come down upon earth.... World-existence could be viewed, as Hamlet once did, as weary, stale, flat and unprofitable; but also, in Sri Aurobindo's words, as "the ecstatic dance of Shiva which multiplies the body of the God numberlessly to the view".5 On 25 April 1956 ...
... large dries with "pillared assembly halls". Big temples came in the way "hewn as if by exiled gods—To imitate their lost eternity." She rested in palaces of Kings on her way and then passed through "hamlet and village" "That,...keep their old repeated course". Then she came to free spaces "Not yet perturbed by human joys and fears". These wide spaces were not yet filled with cares. There were large ...
... awaits the turn of events. The stage is now set for the "controlled experiment". Clever scheming Mahasegn might be Polonius boasting to Claudius: "At such a time I'll loose my daughter to him (Hamlet)"! Even before Vasavadutta meets Vuthsa, her maid Munjoolica - who is herself the captive princess of Sourashtra - makes a report that is half-unnerving to steely Mahasegn's daughter: "I have seen ...
... internal initiation and centre. 15 The crux of the matter is that Man, although he is in many superficial respects like an animal, is not mere animal. What a piece of work is a 'man', exclaims Hamlet; "How noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in moving, how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the world! the paragon of animals!" ...
... was going to attempt, and was ultimately to accomplish. The principal contributor to the Arya was Sri Aurobindo, and without him, the Arya would have been an even completer blank than Hamlet with the Prince of Denmark left out. But in the early issues, Paul Richard's Eternal Wisdom and The Wherefore of the Worlds also appeared serially, while Mirra did most of the translations for ...
... variously spelt by different authors). It was a prosperous village. As was customary in those days, the zamindar had a family preceptor. The preceptor was born to Sri Rangachariar and Janaki Ammal in the hamlet Sam-bodai in Vedaranyam section of Tanjore District in September 1829. Quite young he began a nomadic life. Soon, however, he settled down in Nagai village to do his sadhana. That is how he came to ...
... The Secret Splendour You love frail hamlets sunk amid soft green— I long for the great poignance, the hard hue Of mountains plucking up to the Unseen All valleyed shimmers breaking gently through The small throbs of your unadventurous heart. Height on dense height is blindness unto you— Faced by king-crags you hurry to depart ...
... Should I derive my glory? Have I not Rushed through the angry waters when the whale Was stunned between two waves and slain my foe Page 779 Betwixt the thunders? Have not the burning hamlets Of Gaul lighted me homeward for a league? Erin has felt me, Norsemen. ALL Glory to Humber. HUMBER Have I not slain the Alban hosts and bound The necks of princes? Yea, their glorious ...
... Nala, Nishadha's king, paced by a stream Which ran, escaping from the solitudes To flow through gardens in a pleasant land. Murmuring it came of the green souls of hills And of the towns and hamlets it had seen, The brown-limbed peasants toiling in the sun, And the tired bullocks in the thirsty fields. In its bright talk and laughter it recalled The moonlight and the lapping dangerous tongues ...
... decades on the basis of which a new strategy can be evolved and proposed so Page 58 as to meet the needs of primary education of large masses of children who live in remote villages, hamlets and even in towns where access to formal education if not easy or adequate. In fact, it appears that non-formal education could ultimately prove to be the real effective answer, and it is also to be ...
... effective public speaking. By the end of 1932 this school had, according to its records, trained some 6000 speakers,” 793 who spread the word, evening after evening, in the smallest and most remote hamlets of the country. This too was Hitler’s initiative. ...
... is indeed a very beautiful country," wrote Sen in his diary on 20 March 1870. "The railway passes through romantic regions, hilly but fertile, and likewise through several large French towns and hamlets mostly lighted with gas, such as Avignon, Orange, Montélimar, Livron, Chalon, Dijon." Before the break of dawn the next day they reached Paris. Two hours later they took another train from the Gare ...
... statement as: "the letter killeth." He does not do it even when he is the Editor of Mother India, to whom communications often come in tidal waves, a veritable "sea of troubles" undreamed of in Hamlet's philosophy. And surely the Editor wouldn't do it face-to-face with a bright and graceful undulation of ideas like your letter of last month. Maybe it was a bit cheeky of me to write in that footnote ...
... hardly be said of an English word. There are thousands of lines in English which are most effectively monosyllabic. There is Shakespeare's: And in this harsh world draw thy breath in pain — in Hamlet's last words to Horatio, a line which is one of the glories Page 56 of poetic expression, summing up a universal experience in the simplest words whose metrical scheme of pyrrhic, spondee ...
... lips and the green of her garments, rain-pourings heady Tossed from her cloud-carried beaker of tempest, oceans and streamlets, Dawn and the mountain-air, corn-fields and vineyards, pastures and hamlets, Page 478 Tangles of sunbeams asleep, mooned dream-depths, twilight's shadows, Taste and scent and the fruits of her trees and the flowers of her meadows, Life with her wine-cup of longing... life with no pain for incomer. Never, we said, can these waters from heaven be lost in the marshes, Cease in the sands of the desert, die where the simoom parches; Plains are beyond, there are hamlets and fields where the river rejoices Pacing once more with a quiet step and with amical voices: Bright amid woodlands red with the berries and cool with the breezes Glimmer the leaves; all night ...
... Not life but death is desired in these two passages: the foiled vital current turns awry and abandons the world of the Page 202 senses. Again, there is disgust with that world in Hamlet's cry — O that this too too solid flesh would melt, Thaw and resolve itself into a dew!... How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable Seem to me all the uses of this world! ...
... has a few very successful Logopoeias. Many of his great speeches would be logopoeic by their argumentative trend but for his visual sense. His imagination is all the time breaking in. For instance, Hamlet's soliloquy "To be or not to be" is a series of self-questionings in which a number of semi-philo- Page 282 sophical issues are touched on. From the very start, however, images are ...
... distinction because of a subtle power of rhythm and intensity of form which Page 90 convey an emotion or an idea in a manner beyond prose. There is the line Shakespeare has put into Hamlet's mouth — To be or not to be, that is the question — perhaps the most famous question asked in all poetry. There is also the query of Shakespeare's Lear, which we have already quoted: Why ...
... to him an insight taking brief shape with some linguistic affinity to his Ancient Pistol's fluent description— cruel Fate And giddy Fortune's furious fickle wheel— as well as to his Hamlet's extended reflection Rightly to be great Is not to stir without great argument, But greatly to find quarrel in a straw When honour's at the stake. The closing line, too ...
... external world confined within his limited ken. The poet portrays through word and rhythm his normal daily experiences acquired in his own private chamber or while roving in the open fields around homely hamlets. His imagination is also circumscribed. by such or similar environments. The language is soft, fluid and partly expressive – it is molten and gliding. His themes stem from the happiness and sorrow ...
... terror and grief our portion only. Do we not hear in the heart of the peril a flute go before us? Are there not beckoning hands of the gods that insist and implore us? Plains are beyond; there are hamlets and fields where the river rejoices Pacing once more with a quiet step and amical voices. There in a woodland red with berries and cool with the breezes,— Green are the leaves, all night long the ...
... 576 "You deem me a bliss 488 You fear clay's solid rapture will be gone 186 You know how vain it is. 744 You learned to love. 748 You love frail hamlets sunk amid soft green 736 Your benediction is to me 434 Your buried limbs are a midnight to themselves 703 Your face unveils the cry 182 Your little passions ...
... education. If this truth is kept in view, it will serve a great purpose when our country will be required to build increasing number of educational institutions, even in remote villages and groups of hamlets. The importance of environment, of surroundings full of vegetation, flowers and fruits, can never be underestimated, and the fact that our ancient system of education had underlined this important ...
... education. If this truth is kept in view, it will serve a great purpose when our country will be required to build an increasing number of educational institutions, even in remote villages and groups of hamlets. The importance of environment, or surroundings full of vegetation, flowers and fruits, can never be underestimated, and the fact that our ancient system of education had underlined this important ...
... Savitri goes out on her travels, passing through different countries, and there you find a description of the various facets of culture, of life, of man; the quest has begun. She passes through temples, hamlets, cities and the capitols of kings. Then she goes through various Ashrams - the hermitages of people who have realized the truth. She also meets some wise kings: A few and fit inhabitants she ...
... comes across such phenomena and tends to disbelieve them. But they are true enough and they are by no means mysterious or inexplicable to those who have the knowledge of occult science. You may recall Hamlet's words to Horatio in Shakespeare's play, apropos of the Ghost which appeared before them: 'There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.' From January ...
... Sachchidananda! And between the two negations - the Materialist Page 420 Denial and the Refusal of the Ascetic - there is the even sharper attitude of immediate rejection of life, like Hamlet's: Who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death, The undiscovered country from whose bourn ...
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