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"INTRODUCTION ""Can it be an accident that the most adequate and probably the most lasting exposition... of philosophy should have been made by poets? Are poets, at heart, in search of a philosophy? Or is philosophy, in the end, nothing but poetry?"" - George Santayana The desire for knowing and conceiving what is around us is the perpetual and fertile soil for growth of poetry, myth and speculation. This leads to formation of ideals in a later development of thought that gives rise to further outlook, which manifest in the ideals themselves with their subject matter and content. For, what are ideals about and what do they idealize? It is generally believed that ideals beyond the natural existence and natural passions would be miserable and superfluous ideals indeed that were nobody's ideals of nothing. The pertinence of ideals binds human to nature, and it is only the worst and flimsiest ideals, the ideals of a sick soul, that elude nature's limits and exploit the nature's potentialities. Ideals are forerunners of nature's successes and heralds of human progress, not always theorised by those who conceive in life with fulfilment, for nature is the best teacher to feel her way; at the."

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