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LIFE of my life, I shall ever try to keep my body pure from Gitanjali

"LIFE of my life"  from Gitanjali By Bijay Kant Dubey The song number four from Gitanjali, beginning with ‘Life of my life, I shall ever try to keep my body pure’ is similar in thought and idea, reflection and rhyming as the other poems are in this poetical series coming down to us as song offerings. After thanking God for this life, creation and the world, singing the songs himself,

Preface to Lyrical Ballads: Wordsworth

Theory of poetry “Poetry is the thought and the words in which emotion  spontaneously embodies itself.”          Thoughts on Poetry and its Variations by Mill. Wordsworth took the hint and produced the theory of poetry which is contained in Preface to Lyrical Ballads wherein, at least two places; he points out: “All good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feeling,” and “It