Laocoon : Trojan prince, brother of Anchises & priest of Apollo or Poseidon.
... and a shameful surrender Waited mute for a voice that could lead and a heart to encourage, Up in the silence deep Laocoon rose up, far-heard,– Heard by the gods in their calm and heard by men in their passion– Cloud-haired, clad in mystic red, flamboyant, sombre, Priam's son Laocoon, fate-darkened seer of Apollo. As when the soul of the Ocean arises rapt in the dawning And mid the rocks and the... stranger Leading his sons and his children's sons by the hand in the market Page 361 Showing his rags since his need is so bitter of gold from the Argives! You who demand a reply when Laocoon lessens Antenor, Hush then your feeble roar and your ear to the past and the distance Turn. You fields that are famous for ever, reply for me calling, Fields of the mighty mown by my sword's edge... Far over wrathful Jaxartes they rode; the shaken Achaian Prostrate adored your strength who now shouts at your portals and conquers Then when Antenor guided Troy, this old man, this traitor, Not Laocoon, nay, not even Paris nor Hector. But I have changed, I have grown a niggard of blood and of treasure, Selfish, chilled as old men seem to the young and the headstrong, Counselling safety and ease ...
... of other peoples, theirs is almost cold. It is its remarkable beauty that saves it from real coldness. This applies to the whole period from Phidias down to in which the Laocoon was sculptured. It is only when you come to the Laocoon that you find the expression of strong feeling or passion. PURANI: Perhaps Elie Faure makes that remark because of the satyrs. SRI AUROBINDO: That is quite another ...
... chieftains, present forcefully divergent attitudes that have a universal currency. In Troy, the elder statesman Antenor and his son Halamus advise the acceptance of Achilles' offer, but the hawks - Laocoon, Penthesilea, Paris - carry the day. Rebuffed by Troy, Achilles sends an insolent message to Agamemnon, and the Greek chieftains debate whether they should join Achilles in his attack on Troy or sullenly... the ample spaces of the epic with her aggressive and radiant power and presence. In the opening Book she is seen coming out of her chamber of sleep "capturing the eye like a smile or a sunbeam". To Laocoon in the Trojan Assembly, she is heaven-sent and a continent in herself. We see her in Priam's Palace surrounded by her chieftains - Surabdas, Surenas, Pharatus, Somaranes, Valarus, Tauron, Sumalus ...
... trusted to develop us to its own detriment, and entirely to do away with the foolish and ignoble hankering after help from our natural adversaries. Our attitude to bureaucratic concessions is that of Laocoon: "We fear the Greeks even when they bring us gifts." Our policy is self-development and defensive resistance. But we would extend the policy of self-development to every department of national life; ...
... -"Ode on the Poets", 78n Ken, 68n -"A Morning Hymn", 68n Krishna, 180, 218 Kronos, 159 Kushika, 220 Kutsa, 162 LAKSHMI, 293 Lalan the Fakir, 223 Lamartine, 54 Laocoon, 170 Lao Tzu, 132 Lawrence, D. H., 88 London, 127, 163 Lucifer, 5, 125 Lucretius, 52, 70, 101 -De Rerum Natura, 52 Luther, 273 HUCHCHANDA, 162 Mahabharata, the, ...
... control. Compared to other peoples' art it is almost cold. It is its remarkable beauty that saves them from coldness. This applies to the period from Phidias to Praxiteles. Only when you come to the Laocoon that you find the expression of strong feeling or passion. Disciple : Perhaps because of the satyrs he says so. Sri Aurobindo : That is quite another matter, they are symbolic. Disciple ...
... Huge a rushing sound was heard from her gardens and places Page 105 And in their musings her seers as they strove with night and with error And in the fane of Apollo Laocoon torn by his visions Heard aghast the voice of Troy's deities fleeing from Troya, Saw the flaming lords of her households drive in a death-rout Forth from her ancient halls and their noble ...
... ancient Greek people; they inhabited the south of Greece before the Dorian invasion sent many of them across the Aegean to the central part of Asia minor, which became known as "Ionia". Laocoon: Trojan prince, son of Priam and priest of Apollo. He prophesies that Troy shall triumph and spurs the Trojans on to their destruction. Laomedon: A legendary king of Troy, grandson of Tros ...
... Kalidasa 17, 18, 27, 32 Kanhu 83 Kanwa 8 King Lear 20 King Zeus 34 Krishna 31, 78 Kronos 4 Kumbhodara 17 Kutsa 8 L Lalan the Fakir 84 Laocoon 18 London 10 Lombards 50 M Macbeth 19 Madhuchchanda 8 Madhyama 13 Mahabharata 103, 104 Mamata 9 Manmohan Ghose, Prof. 92,102 Mantra 25 Manu ...
... imagery is as though of a petrification. The figures of statuary present themselves to our eyes in this connection-a violent or intense action held at one point and stilled, as for example, in the Laocoon or the Discabolo. This is usually what the poets, the great poets have done. They have presented living and moving bodies as fixed, stable entities, as a procession of statues. But Shakespeare's ...
... mobilities of the soul rather than on its static eternities". Here Sri Aurobindo elaborates the difference between sculpture and painting, as Lessing had done earlier in his contrastive study of Laocoon in the python's coils by the poet and the sculptor respectively: The sculptor must express always in static form; the idea of the spirit is cut out for him in mass and line, significant ...
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