What would happen if you were gone? Would we move on or slowly fade away like a dying sun? Would we still have memories, warm emotions… or sink tortured to our insanity’s deepest oceans? Would we still grip easily to rationality or be just phantoms, Shells of our former selves, cursed to live in a […]
If he could learn to love another, and earn her love in return by the time the last petal fell, then the spell would be broken. If not, he would be doomed to remain a beast for all time. As the years passed, he fell into despair and lost all hope. For who could ever […]
O light the candle, John The daylight has almost gone The birds have sung their last The bells call all to mass Another song from Loreena McKennitt I enjoy listening lately, probably because of the gloomy weather, is Skelling, a track included on the 1997 album The Book of Secrets. In Skelling, a dying Irish […]
For today’s post I wrote an article about a song I wanted to analyse for a long time and now I’m sharing my thoughts about it with you. The song is entitled The Mystic’s Dream by Canadian singer, harpist and composer Loreena McKennitt and it appeared on her 1994 album The Mask and Mirror. What […]
For a while For a while Can’t you be mine Can I hold you again Like that time? I don’t know much about Korean actors, but I am familiar with Lee Joon-Gi‘s (이준기) work. Later on, you will see on eLitere reviews for certain films and drama series, but today I chose to speak about […]
Sometimes words are futile and the only thing that can make you relax is an instrumental song. Besides Loreena McKennitt‘s The Mystic’s Dream, which will be the subject of another article, I also love listening to La Serenissima, which appeared on the harpist’s 1997 album entitled The Book of Secrets. Though La Serenissima was another name […]
Ye banks and braes o’ bonnie Doon, How can ye bloom sae fair! How can ye chant, ye little birds, And I sae fu’ o’ care! Thou’ll break my heart, thou bonnie bird That sings upon the bough; Thou minds me o’ the happy days When my fause Luve was true. Thou’ll break my heart, […]
Can you feel the heat? Do you sense every single atom boiling off your skin? Do you feel so good you think “Not religious, but it’s so amazing! Enjoying it must surely be a sin!” ? Well congrats, my friend, for getting off your seat! Nod your head like you’ve never felt pain or sorrow, […]
I almost can’t believe that Sailor Moon is finally on eLitere. It’s not what I imagined it would be, but I’m still happy with this little article. I found this book tag on Super Space Chick’s blog and I love it, I feel like watching the anime again. Right… let’s get started. Moon: a book […]
For today’s post, I’m going to review a poetry collection entitled Songs of Kabir, which is written by the Indian saint and mystic poet Kabir and it is translated into English by another famous Indian poet, Rabindranath Tagore. What I understood from Evelyn Underhill’s presentation of Kabir’s life and poems is that Kabir was the […]