Aristotle was of the opinion that tragedy is never depressing; it is elevating and helps purging our baser and superfluous emotions. There is always a peculiar fascination and sweetness in sadder melodies. In fact, they stir us as nothing else does. Shakespeare's tragedies are sweeter than his comedies in as much as their appeal is irresistible and their impressions enduring. When we read Hamlet, Macbeth, Othello, Shakuntla, Iliad, Aeneid and many other gems in the realm of literature, we are no longer spectators, but we find ourselves engaged in the action. We put our soul in communion with the soul of the writer. there intellectually elevating and spiritually purging volumes are the out-pourings of agonized hearts, tortured minds and frustrated souls.
Out of the rocky layers of wild despair, grief, impotent rage, scorn, anguish and misery, a writer of tragedy digs out a precious treasure-the treasure of Humanity. And his forte is a sweet song telling the deepest, thought. Knowing 'what man has made of man, our hearts go with the victim. Even a villain like Shylock in Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice', arouses our sympathy. It is the weeping dejection; it is the bleeding heart; it is the dreadful despair and it is the strangled emotions which sing the saddest but sweetest song.
The rebuff and the throe sublimate our being. The whips of miseries awaken the slumbering heart. The fire of flurries rekindles the extinguished candle of our emotion. Tansen's music is immortal because it was the smoke, the flame and the ash of his heart. The touching symphony came out of the state of starvation and privation.
Adversity is the fountain out of which puts a literary figure on the right tracks. During his quest for light a genius acts, reacts, speaks and writes. It is for the reason that Kalidas penned the out- pourings of 'Shakuntla' Shakespeare wrote 'Hamlet', blind Milton produced 'Paradise Lost' and who can forget the sobs, the sighs and the Shrieks of Ghalib's heart in his poetry?
In his celebrated lyric 'To a Skylark' Shelley compares and contrasts man's lot to that of the blithe and rapturous skylark, and teaches a painful conclusion that "Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought". The significance of the quotation is very deep. Material prosperity is no remedy to pains and pangs, anguish and agony. There are instance to testify this fact.
The king had abdicated their thrones; the affluent persons had renounced the material prosperity and took to meditation and world renowned conquerors realized the futility of massacre and became monks. As long as life endures, the sweetest songs will go on conveying the saddest thought. Shelley's words have assumed Himalayan sublimity and Atlantic profundity. It cannot be gainsaid that "our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought."
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Out of the rocky layers of wild despair, grief, impotent rage, scorn, anguish and misery, a writer of tragedy digs out a precious treasure-the treasure of Humanity. And his forte is a sweet song telling the deepest, thought. Knowing 'what man has made of man, our hearts go with the victim. Even a villain like Shylock in Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice', arouses our sympathy. It is the weeping dejection; it is the bleeding heart; it is the dreadful despair and it is the strangled emotions which sing the saddest but sweetest song.
The rebuff and the throe sublimate our being. The whips of miseries awaken the slumbering heart. The fire of flurries rekindles the extinguished candle of our emotion. Tansen's music is immortal because it was the smoke, the flame and the ash of his heart. The touching symphony came out of the state of starvation and privation.
Adversity is the fountain out of which puts a literary figure on the right tracks. During his quest for light a genius acts, reacts, speaks and writes. It is for the reason that Kalidas penned the out- pourings of 'Shakuntla' Shakespeare wrote 'Hamlet', blind Milton produced 'Paradise Lost' and who can forget the sobs, the sighs and the Shrieks of Ghalib's heart in his poetry?
In his celebrated lyric 'To a Skylark' Shelley compares and contrasts man's lot to that of the blithe and rapturous skylark, and teaches a painful conclusion that "Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought". The significance of the quotation is very deep. Material prosperity is no remedy to pains and pangs, anguish and agony. There are instance to testify this fact.
The king had abdicated their thrones; the affluent persons had renounced the material prosperity and took to meditation and world renowned conquerors realized the futility of massacre and became monks. As long as life endures, the sweetest songs will go on conveying the saddest thought. Shelley's words have assumed Himalayan sublimity and Atlantic profundity. It cannot be gainsaid that "our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought."
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