Thea : Greek goddess.
... any neglect by him, it is due to other causes than coldness and ingratitude. Often the work he turns out is so intensely dedicated to what Graves calls the "White Goddess" (none other than Homer's "Thea" and Milton's "Heavenly Muse") that he feels nothing more is necessary to be done about it. Praise or blame seems irrelevant. At times even publication appears to be pointless. All that the poem, if ...
... poet and the English to conjure up an atmosphere of the Divine and the Superhuman around their highest moments, an instinct aligning itself with the inward impulsion that led Homer to appeal to his Thea and Milton to cry "Sing Heavenly Muse." A sense of the mysterious Divine is always leaping out in Page 73 this manner through great poetry. In general, it is the unformulated background... the mental order can be marked if we put side by side with their last three verses a snatch from Keats which has a similar motive. In Hyperion an action almost identical with Savitri's is given to Thea, the companion of Saturn during his fallen days: One hand she pressed upon that aching spot Where beats the human heart, as if just there, Though an immortal, she felt cruel pain. ...
... sweet cuckoo in the sunlit trees Since the sharp autumn days when with increase Of rosy-lighted cheeks attained the ground Weary of waiting and by wasps hung round The bough's fair hangings and Thea fell with these, My mother, with twelve matron summers crowned. Four times since then the visits of green spring Have blessed the hillsides with fresh blossoming And four times has the winter chilled ...
... marked if we put side by side with their last three verses a snatch from Keats Page 18 which has a similar motive. In Hyperion an action almost identical with Savitri's is given to Thea, the companion of Saturn during his fallen days: One hand she pressed upon that aching spot Where beats the human heart, as if just there, Though an immortal, she felt cruel pain. ...
... is made from the falling of Titana. Especially the start, after the first five lines, is reminiscent of Keats's picture of Saturn stone- Page 322 still in the lightless woods with Thea by his side. Keatsian too are the lines: Her weeping roused at length the stony king, Whose face from its own shadow lifted up Was like the white uprising of the moon. Quite ...
... Hyperion where also grand music is made from the falling of Titans. Especially the start, after the first five lines, is reminiscent of Keats's picture of Saturn stone-still in the lightless woods with Thea by his side. Keatsian too are the lines: Page 37 Her weeping roused at length the stony king, Whose face from its own shadow lifted up Was like the white uprising of the ...
... gives an impression of hammer blows carving a statue in stone, the beauty of solid powerful form takes shape out of skilled consonantal assonances. But when we listen to the Greek– Mênin aeide, thea, Pêlêiadeô Achilêos the rush of vowels suggests the dance of ripples, a sweep of the painter's brush or the flourish of the bow on violin strings. Latin has no doubt the strength of its consonants ...
... effectively fulfil the self-law of his essential Nature, swabhāva and swadharma. If liberation meant a disappearance from the field of life, which is a field of self-expression and divine manifestation, thea the self-nature of the soul would find no opportunity for self-unfoldment, but would be condemned to eternal sterility. swabhāva and swadharma rendered nugatory, ¹ avidyayā mṛtyum tīrtwā ...
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