Archive for the Tag 'John Keats'
Life &Thought Provoking Entropy | 17 Jan 2008
In Praise of Melancholy
We’re in peril of losing a major cultural force, the muse behind much art, poetry, and music. We are blithely getting rid of melancholia..-Pl care to read & ponder thought provoking article by Eric Wilson published in The Chronicle Review In Praise of Melancholy American culture’s overemphasis on happiness misses an essential part of a [...]
Philosophy &Poetry- Physics Entropy | 07 Oct 2007
Truth & Beauty
Once again I return to my gentle obsession of exploring deep relationship between truth and beauty or Beauty and Truth. Essentially, Einstein rounded out three centuries of the questioning of Nature when he equated energy and mass in a single equation of E=Mc2 which arguably is the most widely quoted, used, misused, however least understood [...]
Philosophy &Poetry Entropy | 03 Jun 2007
Negative capability
The phrase used by the English poet John Keats to describe the quality of selfless receptivity necessary to a true poet. In a letter to his brothers (December 1817), he writes At once it struck me, what quality went to form a Man of Achievement especially in Literature & which Shakespeare possessed so enormously—I mean [...]