Neptune : Roman god of fertility, later times identified with Poseidon, god of the sea. (2) The planet named Neptune was discovered in 1846.
... whiteness of Mount Kailasa as the eternal laughter of a God. And Homer's Gods are constantly breaking into laughter over the follies of men. Aeschylus, one of the greatest of the Greek poets, saw Neptune laughing in that immortal line: The innumerable laughter of the waves. Sri Aurobindo's vision of the Kingdom of God does not banish laughter, though it agrees with the Christian notion that ...
... the fosse, leave me my bloody bever 'For soothsay'. And I stepped back, And he strong with the blood, said then: 'Odysseus 'Shalt return through spiteful Neptune, over dark seas, 'Lose all companions'. Is this really a parable of Pound's own adventure with the Cantos ? Is it Tiresias warning Odysseus, or the Muse warning Pound? It ...
... The Mediterranean Sea, just then, was not in a meditative mood, but was joyously dancing and yelling with wild abandon, rolling and tossing the ship terrifyingly. But after two days of turbulence, Neptune stopped shaking his mane. Passing through the Straits of Messina, the ship rounded Corsica, keeping the Isle of Elba to her starboard side. Finally, after more than one month's voyage, the sight of ...
... in which Varuna moves looking down on the truth and the falsehood of mortals,—a phrase that can apply neither to the descending rains nor to the physical ocean. Varuna in the Veda is not an Indian Neptune, neither is he precisely, as the European scholars at first imagined, the Greek Ouranos, the sky. He is the master of an ethereal wideness, an upper ocean, of the vastness of being, of its purity; ...
... Wind and Air or at most of the physical Life-breath. In the lesser gods the naturalistic interpretation has less ground for confidence; for it is obvious that Varuna is not merely a Vedic Uranus or Neptune, but a god with great and important moral functions; Mitra and Bhaga have the same psychological aspect; the Ribhus who form things by the mind and build up immortality by works can with difficulty ...
... raft, ripping at it. I hear a growl a long way off, toward the heart of the storm. It builds like a crescendo, growing louder and louder until it consumes all of the air around me. The fist of Neptune strikes, and with its blast the raft is shot to a staggering halt. It squawks and screams, and then there is peace, as though we have passed into the realm of the afterlife where we cannot be further ...
... come out true according to it. PURANI: Science has discovered many new planes now which weren't known before and couldn't be used by astrologers. SRI AUROBINDO: He speaks of Uranus as well as Neptune; there is one Kutsa which I haven't heard of. But he has placed all these new planets in his calculations. Uranus seems to be the planet of dictators. Stalin is one and Daladier also. PURANI: Daladier ...
... He has put, in rivalry with the bloodiness of his human hand, the power of "all great Neptune's ocean", and he has increased the audacity of his counterpoise by throwing into relief the greatness of the ocean with the help of the thirteen-lettered epithet "multitudinous": the challenge, as it were, of Neptune's washing vastness has been openly accepted by Macbeth in order to suggest the enormity of... injunction to remove the filthy evidence of his misdeed, the blood-stains on his hand after the Page 76 murder of the sleeping King Duncan. Macbeth soliloquises: Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood Clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather The multitudinous seas incarnadine, Making the green one red. You might think that here is only a memorable ...
... less but more heroic than the wrath Of stern Achilles on his foe pursued Thrice fugitive about Troy wall; or rage Of Turnus for Lavinia disespoused; Or Neptune's ire, or Juno's, that so long Perplexed the Greek, and Cytherea's son:... Not sedulous by nature to indite Wars, hitherto the only argument Heroic deemed ...
... only two earlier employments of the word in English poetry and, according to me, Sri Aurobindo's is in accord with them. The first occasion is in Shakespeare's Macbeth: Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood Page 3 Clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather The multitudinous seas incarnadine, Making the green one red. (II.2, lines 61-64) Here ...
... all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood Clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather The multitudinous seas incarnadine, Making the green one red. The point which rivets the attention is the word "incarna-dine" — a strongly beautiful effect on the ear, but not that alone. Macbeth has invoked a daring comparison, blood-stained hands pitted against "all Neptune's ocean"; ...
... draw thy breath in pain To tell my story - Macbeth deeply and desperately visionary about his murderer hands: What hands are here? How they pluck out mine eyes; Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood Clean from my hand? No; this my hand will rather The multitudinous seas incarnadine, Making the green one red - Cleopatra bearing the deadly asp at her breast ...
... 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 ocean wash this blood Clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather The multitudinous seas incarnadine, Making the green one red... Milton, too, with his frequent disdain of ...
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