Ulysses : Latin of Odysseus.
... action doubled with thinkers, and they can even, if the occasion demands it, transcend both action and thought. It is not therefore surprising that Odysseus (or Ulysses) has become almost the archetype of the modern man. Tennyson's Ulysses first widely popularised the figure of the restless adventurer to whom ease is but sloth and who is determined "to strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield"... 394 How then shall the mind be less than free Since only to know is to be free? 58 Such is Wallace Stevens' parable of the modern Ulysses' quest for freedom and felicity. The Ulysses myth has always proved a fecund source of inspiration to novelist and poet, and it seems to have (as George de F. Lord has affirmed) a peculiar relevance to the contemporary... One of the latest variations of this tried old theme is Louis O. Coxe's sequence of six lyrics entitled 'The Last Hero', a series of backward glances at the life-career of Ulysses. When the hour of death approaches, Ulysses has no regrets; Ready? aye, always. Always at my side At kill or council, single eye that gathered The heat of heaven to fire what I said ...
... Aeneid of Virgil, p. 137 54. The English Epic, p. 83. 55. TheSewaneeReview,Summer 1954,pp. 426-7. In his more exhaustive survey, The Ulysses Theme,W3. Stanford has brought together Leopold Bloom in Joyce's Ulysses and Kazantzakis's Odysseus and drawn some interesting points of similarity and contrast, (pp. 222-39). 56. Opus Posthumous, p. 100. 57... 171. 177. ibid., p. 196. Cf.Tennyson: Yet all experience is an arch wherethro' Gleams that untravell'd world whose margin fades Forever and forever when I move. (Ulysses). 178. ibid., pp. 80-1. 179. ibid., p. 549. 180. ibid ., p. 561. 181. ibid. , p. 561. 182 . ibid., p. 666. ... 43. Canto XLVII. 44. Collected Essays, p. 354. It is rather surprising that Mr.W.B. Stanford should make no reference whatsoever to the Cantos in his otherwise exhaustive study, The Ulysses Theme (1954). 45. The Poetry of Ezra Pound,p.317. 46. G. S. Fraser, in his Ezra Pound (I960), compares the pattern of the Cantos with that of The Divine Comedy, The Pisan ...
... the poetic literature of other countries. Dante too has contributed some strains. One may be mentioned at once. Do you remember the story he makes Ulysses tell, but none of the classics know, the story which has served as the basis of Tennyson's Ulysses, Page 256 that memorable success of his in blank verse, along with Morte d'Arthur and Tithonus? I have Laurence Binyon's translation... translation — poetic enough but naturally nowhere near Dante's unique blend of simplicity and exaltation, clear-cut flow and concentrated force. Dante's Ulysses tells his comrades: "Brothers," I said, "who manfully, despite Ten thousand perils, have attained the West, In the brief vigil that remains of light To feel in, stoop not to renounce the quest Of what may in the sun's path... in end-stopping as in overflowing and charged everywhere with a winging afflatus, whether light and mobile, or massive and high-poised — may well stand beside the Aurobindonian as sheer poetry. But Ulysses is an exception and not the rule. Neither can it, for all its masterful semi-mystic romanticism, match the deeper tones that sweep through Savitri again and again. Perhaps the passage with the Dan ...
... makes Ulysses tell, but none of the classics know, the story which has served as the basis of Tennyson's Ulysses, that memorable success of his in blank verse, along with Morte d'Arthur and Tithonus? I have Laurence Binyon's translation - poetic enough but naturally nowhere near Dante's unique blend of simplicity and exaltation, clear-cut flow and concentrated force. Dante's Ulysses tells... and charged everywhere with a winging afflatus, whether light and mobile, Page 225 or massive and high-poised - may well stand beside the Aurobindonian as sheer poetry. But Ulysses is an exception and not the rule. Neither can it, for all its masterful semi-mystic romanticism, match the deeper tones that sweep through Savitri again and again. Perhaps the passage with the ...
... putting them before Pope's translation of the Iliad and the Odyssey. Here are two addressed by Ulysses in surprise to Elpenor who, unknown to his leader, had fallen overboard to his death in the sea and afterwards met Ulysses in the Underworld: Homer, in as straightforward a rendering as a somewhat corresponding metrical... has shown in contrast the exquisite sincerity of a line of Keats's which, though with a slight Romantic touch in the style, reflects part of the surprise uttered by Ulysses: Page 27 How cam'st thou over the unfooted sea? Even where there is no obvious falseness the characteristic ...
... The Secret Splendour I have mastered the antinomies of Kant And the four-dimensional continuum And the daedal scheme of Joyce-wrought Ulysses— Of Dali's weird signs I am a hierophant, And how through Narcist quiverings they come I have learned by subtle psychoanalysis. Now, Lord, I pray make me most ignorant, Drown ...
... ntialist: I am, I love, I see, I act, I will. 12 Here is an expression deriving its force and resolution from deeper layers of being than the famous close in Tennyson's poem about Ulysses and his comrades: Made weak by fate and time, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. Those deeper layers render Sri Aurobindo's line more effective art ...
... occult device carrying the spirit of the writer and communicating it to the reader to the degree of his intelligence and receptivity. What we experience by reading Paradise Lost, Of Mice and Men or Ulysses is not caused by the printed configurations we call characters, but by the vibrations communicated by means of those configurations which enable us to enter into contact with the mind of the writer ...
... imposing the colder and harder Nordic ideal on the Southern temperament which regarded the expression of emotions, not its suppression, as a virtue. Witness the weeping and lamentations of Achilles, Ulysses and other Greek, Persian and Indian heroes—the latter especially as lovers. August 25, 1934 But, great snakes ! when did I ever tel1 you that faith in poetry an and his statements ...
... draw tears to the eyes of all men whose ears were not closed against all harmony by some denser and less removable obstruction than shut out the song of the Sirens from the hearing of the crew of Ulysses." Swinburne's word stood unchallenged until 1911. In that year A. E. Housman delivered the Inaugural Lecture as Kennedy Professor of Latin at Cambridge. There we have what Henry Jackson described ...
... natural magic and vision which if it had been sustained and kept the same delicate and mystic strain, might have made the cycle of idylls a new poetic revelation. In other poems, in the Lotos-Eaters, Ulysses, Oenone , where set narrative is avoided and the legend is a starting-point or support for thought, vision and beauty, some fullness of these things is reached; but still Page 153 the form ...
... imposing the colder and harder Nordic ideal on the Southern temperament which regarded the expression of emotion, not its suppression, as a virtue. Witness the weeping and lamentations of Achilles, Ulysses and other Greek, Persian and Indian heroes—the latter especially as lovers. × The correspondent ...
... Page 157 I am, I love, I see, I act, I will. Here is an expression deriving its force and resolution from deeper layers of being than the famous close in Tennyson's poem about Ulysses and his comrades: Made weak by fate and time, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. Those deeper layers render Sri Aurobindo's line more effective art ...
... ist: I am, I love, I see, I act, I will.²² Here is an utterance deriving its force and resolution from deeper layers of being than the famous close in Tennyson's poem about Ulysses and his comrades: Made weak by fate and time, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. 19. Ibid., p. 385 20. Ibid. ...
... So this dark shadow is hanging over my head and this complaint has come from nowhere else but from my own home. My very dear, dear niece -I leave the name unuttered (Laughter) - my own niece (as Ulysses says, "This is my son, my own son, Telemachus!") (Laughter), so I say, this is my own dear niece who complains. That puts me on my guard, I feel inclined to tell her. I ask my young friends here: ...
... example, put in a sack and banished miles away from its home, will find its way back; a dog will go round the world almost and find and recognise its master even many years after (the first to recognise Ulysses was his dog). In man too the vital physical, more especially the mental physical not unoften finds room for play, although his physical physical i.e. purely material sensibility is extremely limited ...
... 165-6n., 225 Sridhara,21 Sutras, the, 68 TAGORE, 209 Tamas, the, 37,152 Tilak, 2 I Tintoretto, 210 Titan,45-6,66,80,209,226,253,349 Titian, 210 UDDHAVA, 99, 101 Ulysses, 293 Page 433 Upanishads, the, 10, 13, 29, 57, 63, 68, 71, 74, 78n., 83, 120, 143-4, 180, 207, 225, 263, 305 -Aitar_a,80,83 -Brihadaranyaka, 71n., 74n ...
... Press, Princeton, 1952). Stambler, Bernard. Dante's Other World : The Purgatorio' as Guide to the Divine Comedy (Peter Owen, London, 1958). Stanford, W.B. The Ulysses Theme : A Study in the Adaptability of a Traditional Hero (Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1954). Stevens, Wallace. Collected Poems (Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1957). Opus Posthumous ...
... Bridges's The Testament of Beauty have also been sometimes loosely called 'epics', though epics with a substantial difference. And works of fiction like War and Peace, A la Recherche du Temps Perdu, Ulysses and perhaps even Doctor Zhivago, though written in prose, make a total impact that is not unlike the impact of epics on us. And what is one to say about a phenomenon like Goethe's Faust or Hardy's ...
... right and just, tells me that to lie is meritorious, it is my duty to lie to the best of my ability. Wilson —But no one could possibly think that. Keshav —I think that the soul of Ithacan Ulysses has not yet completed the cycle of his transmigrations, nor would I wrong the author of the Hippias by ignoring his conclusions. Or why go to dead men for an example? The mould has not fallen on the ...
... best is not strong or great, though it may have other qualities, and at a more common level it is languid or crude or characterless. Except for a few poems, like Tennyson's early Morte d'Arthur, Ulysses and one or two others or Arnold's Sohrab and Rustam , there is nothing of a very high order. Tennyson is a perilous model and can have a weakening and corrupting influence and the Princess and ...
... formed with much difficulty. Telepathic Trikaldrishti & Ishita etc 1) Yesterday ishita & trikaldrishti of result of other than ordinary food, confirmed an hour or so afterwards by arrival of Ulysses who dined here & arrangements were made suddenly all without suggestion or interference on my part. 2) Successive movements of birds & ants etc can now often be determined for some minutes together ...
... the commonest things, is difficult in English. Professor Campbell has somewhere drawn our attention to Homer's phrase about the dog Argos which, old and uncared for, is lying at the doorstep when Ulysses returns home after his long wanderings. Homer says of the dog: "enipleios kynoraisteon." The first word has four syllables, the second has five scanned as four. Considering their reference to a common ...
... conversational turn and temper. The latter is no defect in itself; what the poet has to be on guard against is the bathetic or the prosaic. Professor Campbell has observed that Homer could speak of Ulysses' dog Argos as being full of lice without sacrificing all that Arnold claimed for him — rapidity, simplicity, nobility — because the phrase in Greek had a rich rhythm and dignity side by side with ...
... st: I am, I love, 1 see, I act, I will. [p. 594] Here is an expression deriving its force and resolution from deeper layers of being than the famous close in Tennyson's poem about Ulysses and his comrades: Made weak by fate and time, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. Page 66 Those deeper layers render Sri Aurobindo's line ...
... imposing the colder and harder Nordic ideal on the Southern temperament which regarded the expression of emotions, not its suppression, as a virtue. Witness the weeping and lamentations of Achilles, Ulysses and other great heroes, Persian and Indian — the latter especially as lovers. * * * ... As for the unconscious Avatar, why not? Chaitanya is supposed to be an Avatar by the Vaishnavas, yet ...
... put in a sack and banished miles away from its home, will find its way back; a dog will go round the world almost and find and recognise its master even many years after (the first to recognise Ulysses was his dog). In man too the vital physical, more especially the mental physical not unoften finds room for play, although his physical physical i.e. purely material sensibility is extremely limited ...
... of Paradisal peaks via the slopes of Purgatory, which is, "closely similar to similar supernatural peregrination stories in Arabic and in old Persian literature—to say nothing of the descents of Ulysses and Aeneas", 109 to say nothing again of the wanderings of Rama, Sita and Lakshmana in the Ramayana and of the Pandavas in the Mahabharata. Aswapati's spiritual peregrination, described at co ...
... 'Quest' which follow, as also the first year of her married life with Satyavan), the drama outlined in the poem extends over a single day (as, for example, in a modern 'prose epic' like James Joyce's Ulysses). The scheme of the poem may be indicated accordingly as follows: DAWN (The 'dawn' of the fateful day in Savitri's life, and in the life of evolving humanity: Book ...
... for existence men encountered only prickly pear, rattling bones or pursuing shadows. The mood found expression, in the West, in the chilling literature of disillusion - in works like James Joyce's Ulysses and T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land. And not only the bleached and empty men and women of the war-weary West, but Indian youths too - recoiling from the death-stare of political, economic and spiritual ...
... could not do it from Bombay, he went to Kabul and telegraphed from there. The reply came that the sympathisers are to be shot. Now after his return to Bombay, somebody phones him every morning saying, "Ulysse, are you still proving yourself to be a traitor to your country?" (Laughter) PURANI: But the condition in France is none too happy. SRI AUROBINDO: No. Hitler is putting pressure on Pétain. ...
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