Balanced Perspective in Art-Literature n Lifestyle

Language     & Musicality in Keats’ Ode to Autumn      A stylistic analysis of Keats’ Ode to Autumn using Roman Jakobson's poetic function as the model. It elaborates the elaborate the selected theme of negative capability. Sound patterning & deviations in lexical, graphological, and semantic levels are used to convey thought and give the poem its stylistic impact. Certain devices are used to create impact with foregrounding on different levels in the poem & its form is a mirror for its content. The poem has the stamp of Keats' poetic style in sensuousness and his idea about finding a sort of permanence in this transitory world and life. “Had Keats left us only his odes, his rank among the poets would not be lower than it is, for they have stood apart in literature”. (Bridges, R., 1971, The Odes, p. 53). John Keats' concept of negative capability is tackled with an artistic, creative, and persuasive mastery in this ode as well. “To Autumn is …a...

Theme of Lack of Empathy & Integration in Eugene Ionesco’s, Rhinoceros. The play Rhinoceros depicts the enigmatic & puzzling nature of the human condition concretely and visually. The individual who did not conform is alienated as a single human. Trying circumstances, to choose either conformity or individuality places one in an existential dilemma. It reverts and subverts the traditional, the accepted, and the normalized expectations, showing the futility and void one faces. The present paper shows how dexterously, Ionesco has used integration of form and content, to give this play its strong desired impact.  Considering the play from the perspective of Carl Jung’s concepts of Unconscious and Individuation unveils the layers and layers of meanings. The findings of this essay are that Jung’s concepts help link up the playwright’s idea of absurdity, temporal meanings of the play of the sudden proliferation of Fascism & Nazism, (almost synonymous with totalitarianism an...