“Waking Up”, Tagore’s poem about life’s answers

Upon awakening. With its musical lyric and imbued with melancholy, Tagore manages to make us reflect on the moods, the most intimate emotions and, often even uncomfortable, human conditions. Tagore’s reflections are rooted in indian religion, and in the profound spirituality that binds man to the elements of nature. A symphony of emotions and feelings, … Read more

James Joyce and the fascination of darkness in the poem “Nocturne”

June 16, 1904 is the day in which the events of James Joyce’s “Ulysses” take place, the 24 hours in which the events of Leopold Bloom, protagonist of “Ulysses”, are condensed. Every year in Ireland, June 16 is the day dedicated to celebrations in honor of James Joyce and his modernist masterpiece. It is Bloomsday, … Read more