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‘He cried with a loud voice, “Lazarus, come forth!”And he that was dead came forth, bound hand and foot with graveclothe...
26/03/2024

‘He cried with a loud voice, “Lazarus, come forth!”
And he that was dead came forth, bound hand and foot with graveclothes, and his face was bound about with a napkin.’
- John: Chapter 11, Verses 43-44

Sylvia Plath's ' ' is an exploration of her powerlessness against the unstoppable death instinct, yet one where she attempts, as the artist that she is, to transform this powerlessness into its opposite, by mythologising herself as the female version of who was raised by in the .

Plath explores many themes from death and , to the voyeurism of the supposedly concerned crowds (that is the relationship between s*x and death), through to n**i , as well as what she perceived (whether rightly or wrongly) to be the male oppressor in many forms, responsible for her miseries.

She declares a final judgement of the equivalence of good and evil (in the forms of God and Lucifer) due to their inherent male natures and therefore, moves beyond the moral sphere, as any true artist worth the name should do.

Full of depth of imagery and written in the same month as her poem 'Daddy' - (See our other videos).

Plath utilises a type of ' ' and announces that she will return to punish those responsible for her .

Watch it here:

‘He cried with a loud voice, “Lazarus, come forth!”And he that was dead came forth, bound hand and foot with graveclothes, and his face was bound about with ...

The Poetry of , far from being merely spoken or written words, contain a which puts forth his of how to understand ...
24/03/2024

The Poetry of , far from being merely spoken or written words, contain a which puts forth his of how to understand the world, how to approach and the role of the tongue and the eye in this adventure.

To attempt to encapsulate the poet Pablo Neruda, is to miss the point, entirely. He was not graspable, as no human being is truly graspable and cannot be encapsulated - just as the cannot be encapsulated.

At least, this was his philosophy.

Neruda was a , a poet, a , a , a , a political , a lover, a national hero, and the rest.

His funeral, in 1973, was attended by thousands (both for his , which expounded freedom in the face of the rule of the , Augusto , and for his poetry, which was also concerned with a type of untrammelled ) and he won the 1971 for which remember, is awarded to 'those who [...] have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind.'

Poetry, Literature, as a benefit to humankind..

But this essay is less about his biography than about his philosophy; than about his view of the world and how life should be approached.

Consider: How do we gain of the world? How do we, grasp it?

Well, what we do is , and .

, who was strongly influenced by Neruda, in the famous opening to his novel ‘ ’, writes: ‘The world was so recent that many things lacked names, and in order to indicate them it was necessary to point.’

Neruda explores the mixing up and complicating of life to understand it, as opposed to the generally approach of division, reduction and isolation.

Watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvWEHNt8fKo

Iain McGilchrist

Value My Work? – Support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TheWrittenWorldThe Poetry of Pablo Neruda, far from being merely spoken or written words, con...

This essay is subtitled : How to smuggle decadent ideas, inside of a trojan horse of beauty.If when you think, , you th...
21/03/2024

This essay is subtitled : How to smuggle decadent ideas, inside of a trojan horse of beauty.

If when you think, , you think ‘ - what a beautifully written ’, and stop there - I think, this is a mistake...

Apart from its angst-lubricating appeal to adolescents, The Catcher is premature in many other ways.

Landing in Normandy on D-day, June 6 1944 (his first day of service) and witnessing some of the most traumatic horrors a person can be privy to, Salinger opens up the question of how to live in the face of .

Escaping into and - orientalist which preach turning one's back on the world, we delve into the roots of this and both its , and branches.



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‘I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around–nobody big, I mean–...

Wilfred Owen, in his poem 'Greater Love', written due to the sufferings he witnessed and experienced through , explores...
20/03/2024

Wilfred Owen, in his poem 'Greater Love', written due to the sufferings he witnessed and experienced through , explores the concept that 'Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends', (John 15:13).

Owen soon came to the war and felt that young men were being led to their deaths for no good reason, sacrificed on the alter of national power and interest. Whilst 's poem 'The Soldier' was being used as in defence of the war (perhaps an oxymoron in itself), Owen, after meeting Doctor A.J Brock and , wrote some of the most powerful poetry ever created.

His poem 'Greater Love' both explored and mocked the idea expressed in John 15:13, (pushed by the to rally up support in favour of war), moving from a of : 'Red Lips Are Not So Red' to its brutal : 'As The Stained Stones Kissed By The English Dead', as a means of and derision at such fatuous ideas.

Owen died just a week before the end of World War One. His legacy lives on.

This is one for and . But should be one for every day.

Watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZ1X1QvvfMM

Wilfred Owen, in his poem 'Greater Love', written due to the sufferings he witnessed and experienced through World War I, explores the biblical concept that ...

How To Write A Great Sentence...‘We are fond of separating style and content for the purposes of analysis, and so on, bu...
19/03/2024

How To Write A Great Sentence...

‘We are fond of separating style and content for the purposes of analysis, and so on, but they aren't separable, they come from the same place, and style is morality, style judges.’

This is a quote taken from ’ essay on ’s ‘The Adventures of Augie March’.

And if as he maintains, ‘style is , style judges’, and if, indeed, this is not content produced just for stylistic effect, then this is an idea with interesting implications.

Now there are many different aspects to style, such as The use of , , , Tone, , - and this is not an exhaustive list.

So then, according to Amis, Grammar is Style, Tone is Style, but also - is style, and even, setting and , is Style, and all the Literary tools available to and employed by , taken as a whole, are, style.

In studying the History of - you find that some of its meatiest and most appealing aspects are - Literary Feuds - enter and . Two, outstanding writers with very different, and in fact, antithetical styles. So following the thread, these are two writers whose writings contained two very different Moralities and Judgments of the world.

This short video essay then leads up to a brief but finely crafted paragraph taken from ‘100 ways to ’ by Gary Provost, which stands unique as it employs the very form that it is trying to teach, about the art of writing, and how sentences can be stylised for greater impact and musicality.

Watch The Full Video Here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UVmBRHZsMs

Longest Piece of English Literature? At least American English? William Faulkner? Tersest Sentences? Hemingway? Style or content, which is the most important...

The Poem 'Daddy' (her most confessional ) was written by just four months before she took her own life in her London ...
18/03/2024

The Poem 'Daddy' (her most confessional ) was written by just four months before she took her own life in her London home in February 1963. She was just 30 years old.

It explores , and , and how they both create and destroy one another.

In a 1962 BBC interview, she describes 'Daddy' as one girl’s confrontation with the unresolved manifested in the wake of her fathers untimely death.

The term ‘Electra Complex' is taken from , where the princess plots the killing of her own mother, the Queen , who is responsible for the murder of her father, after his return from the .

In his 'Theory of ' proposes the theory of The Electra complex, to elucidate the state of affairs when young girls compete for the ownership and affections of their fathers - in competition with their mothers - and when this natural development is somehow thwarted.

In a young girls *xual development, according to this theory, there are several natural stages that she must experience to attain ' '.

When this natural development (with the father figure central to it) is dashed, the Electra complex manifests with all its trappings of - emotional and maladjustments, and .

In modern verbiage, we refer to this as ‘ ’ - but that is to make light of a potentially deeply traumatic reality, which is liable to effect her very sense of self.

This early death of her father was probably Sylvia's greatest trauma, and haunted her throughout her life..

The poem 'Daddy' was both the Climax and the Denouement to this pain of unbearable proportions.

Watch the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwgKxOpFdaE

The Poem 'Daddy' (her most confessional poem) was written by Sylvia Plath just four months before she committed su***de in her London home in February 1963. ...

FOR THE FEW... explores the attack on brought about by and its surrogates, such as so-called ' ' culture, ' ' and ...
18/03/2024

FOR THE FEW... explores the attack on brought about by and its surrogates, such as so-called ' ' culture, ' ' and all that falls under regressive tendencies in 'modern' times; merely banal rehashings of decadent instincts that have existed for millennia...

holds that there is progress 'in potentia', which is undeniable - while postmodernism (amongst other things) believes that there is no such thing as progress.

It matters not who burns, which books, whether national , The or 's. To declare certain aspects of Western Civilisation as inherently 'Evil', or too 'white', or too or the product of and therefore inherently racist or bigoted is of course, just the baffled cry of unthinking hordes - who are concerned not with justice, but, make no mistake - their own .

Book burning is equivalent to the stigmatisation and silencing of a . And vice versa.

'Books' here, mean both literal books and act as an extended symbol for culture itself.

An attack on Reason and principles is being screeched out across the streets, in , , the internet, outlets and organisations and is spreading fast. Like a cancer.

exposes idiotic motions against The Sciences, Free , Free , , and and reveals how is brought about by the assault on these indispensable .

With the rise of movements at present we are seeing a type of which, under the guise of and ' ' is now being smuggled in, to silence those ideas which are the product of Enlightenment principles. The very ground you stand on, was laid down by those thinkers.

Bradbury foresaw these tendencies and studied its progenitors in the form of many and regimes throughout - and was well-versed in many other who wrestled with the same.

Fahrenheit 451 is bursting with verses, quotes, the names of authors and their works.

And what of the title?

451 Degrees Fahrenheit is the proverbial temperature at which books burn.

Note Well: --- Produces Monsters.

Watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o77c0F548u0

Fahrenheit 451 explores the attack on Reason brought about by postmodernism and its surrogates such as so-called 'woke' culture, 'social justice' and all tha...

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