Triumph of Life : poem by P. B. Shelley on which he was working at the time of his accidental death.
... acquired cultured mind explains this to me and may intellectually catch at the something more, my natural being will not be satisfied, Page 263 I am oppressed, not uplifted by this triumph of life and the flesh and of the power and stir of life,—not that I object to these things in themselves or to the greatest emphasis on the sensuous or even the sensual, elements not at all absent from ...
... inspired reason" . 22 This occurs in the more elevated Wordsworthian passages as well as in parts of Shelley's Alastor, Julian and Maddalo, Prometheus Unbound, Adonais and of his fragment, The Triumph of Life; also in sections of Keats's Hyperion, here and there in the famous Odes and almost wholly in the fragment of an Ode ending with the line, Leaving great verse unto a little clan. But ...
... and not to yield. Page 66 Those deeper layers render Sri Aurobindo's line more effective art also than Shelley's memorable words put into the mouth of Rousseau's ghost in his Triumph of Life: Before thy memory, I feared, loved, hated, suffered, did and died. The insufficiency of the mere Reason as compared either to the inner soul's moved perception or to the puissant ...
... are always fine, so fine that if the matter & manner were equal to the melody, he would have been one of the few great poets instead of one of the many who have just missed being great. But his Triumph of Life is a metrical failure. We feel that the poet is aiming at a metrical effect which he has not accomplished. The second question, but a far simpler one, is the use of rhyme. It may be objected ...
... Motherland, each and every one has had to pass through the inevitable test. And it is this indispensability of sacrifice to the success of a cause that constitutes at once the tragedy and the triumph of life—tragedy, because it means the passing away of those spirits whom the world can ill spare, triumph, because it demonstrates the innate superiority of human nature to death, because it brings the ...
... seek, to find, and not to yield. Those deeper layers render Sri Aurobindo's line more effective art also than Shelley's memorable words put into the mouth of Rousseau's ghost in his Triumph of Life: Before thy memory, I feared, loved, hated, suffered, did and died. The insufficiency of the mere Reason as compared either to the inner soul's moved perception or to the ...
... . Yet elsewhere in the volume we have noted more than a score of cases where she left a square-bracketed blank for a missing or undeciphered word; not counting more than half a dozen in The Triumph of Life , Shelley's last major poem... Why, one wonders, did she not do so here? Since she did not, we may suppose that she used her editorial discretion in deleting, whether in the printer's copy or in ...
... to seek, to find, and not to yield. Those deeper layers render Sri Aurobindo's line more effective art also than Shelley's memorable words put into the mouth of Rousseau's ghost in his Triumph of Life: Before thy memory, I feared, loved, hated, suffered, did and died. The insufficiency of the mere Reason as compared either to the inner soul's moved perception or to the puissant ...
... Queene - or Shelley's resort to it at the same distance of time in his highly imagined and deeply felt Adonais? Or look at Shelley's adoption of the still older terza rima of Dante for his Triumph of Life. Talking of subject, can we rightly disapprove of Chaucer or Shakespeare writing of Troilus and Cressida or Keats choosing to write of the fall of Hyperion or, on a smaller though not poetically ...
... . Page 234 Those deeper layers render Sri Aurobindo's line more effective art than Shelley's memorable words put into the mouth of Rousseau's ghost in his Triumph of Life: Before thy memory, I feared, loved, hated, suffered, did and died.²³ The insufficiency of the mere reason as compared either to the inner soul's moved perception or to the ...
... his abomination of the city, “made of stone and making everything into stone”. The city is the sure sign that mind has triumphed over life, that culture has been converted into civilization and that the end of civilization is near. “In stead of a world: a city, a spot, in which all life of large countries concentrates while the rest withers. In stead of a healthy Volk, grown one with the soil: a new nomad... the world and worked hard to make everybody else recognize this. It is a curious paradox that, while battleships and Zeppelins were being built, the German dreamt of a life-giving traditional “culture” in opposition to the detestable life-taking modern “civilization”; that while the Berlin-Baghdad Railway was being constructed he suffered from Kulturpessimismus ; that, while the whole world was using... not the seat of a special human dignity: it is no more than an expedient in the struggle for life. Man is there to do things. It is only as a being in action that he fulfils his national destiny. Contemplative natures, retrospective like all religious people, are dead beings who miss out on the meaning of life. Precisely the Germans, who have spent so much time floating in thoughts and dreams, had to ...
... nothing else.... ( Mother listens to a reading from the notebook of a disciple who regularly asks questions. ) "Sweet Mother, it is said that the good and the true always triumph, Page 262 but in life, one often sees the opposite happen. The wicked win and seem to have some protection against suffering." ( Mother laughs, then remains silent ) We always confuse two notions... wouldn't even understand it. To put it more precisely, what is constantly realized is the supreme vision, but its realization in this mixed material world isn't seen by the ignorant human vision as the triumph of good (of what men call "good" and "true"). But—to put it humorously—it's not the Lord's fault, it's mens' fault! That is, the Lord knows what he is doing, but men don't understand it. In a true... other words, the Divine will eventually be victorious. That is what has been said, what all those who have lived a spiritual life have said—and it is an absolute fact. When people transpose it, they say, "I am a good boy, I live according to what I think to be true, consequently life should be a bed of roses for me!" ( Mother laughs ) To begin with, self-appreciation is always dubious, and then, in the ...
... indeed of its importance now and in the future and as also a reminder that the apparently extreme tragedy of Sri Aurobindo's passing from the material scene is in fact the most glorious triumph of his life-mission to bring the Supermind here bodily amongst us, the Mother gave on the first of January this year her message to the world which is as much Sri Aurobindo's message: "Lord, Thou hast... physical vital, broadly speaking, is all that functioning of the life-force which is not subliminal vitality: the outward-thrown energy of the mighty creators, destroyers, achievers no less than the body-confined organic process and desire-play is then the physical vital. The physical vital and the physical mind are not only life-force and mind which have arisen in the physical proper and, while... subliminal or inner mentality and vitality, mind and life-force in their own right apart from matter though thrusting their powers into matter, joining up with and developing the mental and the vital evolving from the "inconscience" of matter in which they lie "involved". The involved vital and mental that have evolved are mind and life-force physical in the strict sense, while in the broad ...
... combined will bring about a better human world, a more harmonious life. But life is not changed through miracles; it is changed through instruments, and we have only one instrument – the Mind. So if we want to look sensibly at our future, without being carried away by present circumstances and their apparent triumphs – others have triumphed before us, at Thebes, at Athens, at Ujjain – we must look more... teeming with an infinite variety. Ideas themselves are partial and insufficient: not only have they a very partial triumph, but if their success were complete, it would still disappoint, because they are not the whole truth of life and therefore cannot securely govern and perfect life. Life escapes from the formulas and systems which our reason labors to impose on it; it proclaims itself too complex,... insurmountable. If evolution is to triumph, then life must be transformed in its entirety – not just a fragment of life, not just a privileged beam or a blessed island. For this, another type of Power is required, a Power capable of resisting the downward pull, another undivided or global principle of consciousness capable of containing the innumerable diversity of life without mutilating it. If we ...
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