The 21st century has made student life more difficult and multifaceted, imposing a number of different pressures upon students: competitive examination systems, technological distraction, social media influence, family expectations, and unpredictability of the future, which influence the psychological wellbeing and academic results of students in a great number. The study examines the role of...
This paper is mainly concerned with mystical experience in Emily Dickinson's later poems (composed between 1864 and 1886) to show the poet's spiritual growth and her attitude to the love of the Divine. It aims at analyzing and interpreting the poetry of Emily Dickinson from a mystical point of view. Most of Dickinson's poems trace themes like death, love and spiritual ecstasy. It proposes that...
This paper attempts to trace mysticism in T.S. Eliot’s Four Quartetswith a special focus on the mystical elements in the poems with theirrelevant dimensions. It also aims at looking at different literaturesaround Eliot’s works which consider Eliot as an atheist poet whoseearlier writings contain secularist ideas but that only his Four Quartetsand ‘Ash Wednesday’ contain some differences to...
Four Quartets (1942) is a sequence of four poems:'Burnt Norton' (1936), 'East Coker' (1940), 'The Dry Salvages'(1941) and 'Little Gidding' (1942). The main sources of themystical symbols in T.S. Eliot's masterpiece, Four Quartets,are some of Saint John of the Cross's writings and this has notbeen given its due of study. This paper aims at exploring St.John of the Cross's influence on Eliot's...