...Death is presented as intimidating and scary in most cultures. Death and what happens after is the topic of many poems. Many of the poems are about death not being intimidating or alarming. One such poem being Because I Could Not Stop for Death by Emily Dickinson. Another poem with a similar message Death, Be Not Proud by John Donne. Though Because I Could Not Stop for Death and Death, Be Not Proud both attempt to show that death is not intimidating, they use different depictions of death, the attitude of the narrator, and poem format. Both poets depict death as something people should not fear. Donne confidently ridicules death for being proud of nothing and claims that in the end death will die while everyone else is in the afterlife. He was a devout Christian which helps explain how he can seem so sure of his claim that death is pointless. Dickinson does not take an aggressive stance against death like Donne. Instead, she turns death into a civil gentleman that will give you a peaceful ride to your grave. In the end Donne and Dickinson both show death in a different light than expected by most people....
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...Sebacher March 5, 2014 Essentially I feel that each poem in its own “Funeral Blues” (W. H. Auden), “Death, be not proud” (John Donne), and “Because I could not stop for Death” (Emily Dickinson) are unique in their own way however, I feel that two poems in particular may show more similarity in each other versus all three being compared at once although, I will be comparing and contrasting all three poems towards the end of this essay. For example, When reading “Funeral Blues” (W. H. Auden), I felt a greater sense of similarity to “Because I could not stop for death” (Emily Dickinson) versus “Death, be not proud” (John Donne) so I will begin to discuss those poems first. When comparing each poem I will list the related styles between the two and the same for contrasting each when discussing the distinctive differences. In “Funeral Blues”; a poem about the mourning of a dear loved one, Auden used a great sense of imagery when writing to assist the audience in creating a mental picture. Each line used a great amount of detail for example, when Auden wrote “Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead scribbling in the sky the message he is dead.” It was easy for me to actually picture this statement mentally due to his choice of words. Also, he uses a rhyme scheme that is successful in expressing the deep mourning and sorrow that he feels. The same feelings expressed in “Funeral Blues” can also be felt in “Because I could not stop for death” (Emily Dickinson). As in Auden’s poem...
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...Issa Haddad Jason Sebacher ENGL102 27 November 2012 Compare/Contrast Essay In Dylan Thomas', “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night”, he entreats his father to not succumb quietly to death. He uses the metaphor, "the dying of the light" (3) to illustrate that he feels death to be a destructive power seeking to put out the "light" which is the human life force. That he feels this destruction should not be passively accepted is first shown when he states, "old age should burn and rave at the close of day" (2). He employs the metaphor, "close of day" (2) to show he feels death is an end to human consciousness as he knows it. He also uses "old age" (2) to personify the person/people who should fight death, and "burn and rave" (2) to indicate the fight. He uses examples of different types of men resisting death to add to his argument that life should not be given up lightly. "Wise men" (4) do not "go gentle" because "their words had forked no lightning" (5). Another metaphor, meaning that the words they speak receive no notice, therefor there is still more recognition to achieve before death's finality. "Good men" (7), realizing (with the metaphor/personification) that their "frail deeds might have danced in a green bay" (8), also fight against dying. The use of "green bay" (8) as a metaphor for the inevitable "sea" of mortality shows that they realize their actions in life may not yet be enough to secure them an illustrious place in human history and remembrance. "Wild men"...
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...Death is personified as a person in John Donne's, "Death, be not proud" as well as in Emily Dickinson's "Because I could not stop for Death". Despite the different implications in each poem, the central theme is death. The inevitable realization of death is explored in both poems, by examining death as a person and by reflecting the poets' religious beliefs. Although John Donne's poem was written in 1633, the theme of death can be compared to Emily Dickinson's poem, written about two centuries later. Both Donne and Dickinson are urging the readers not fear death. However, Donne addresses this theme with assertiveness while Dickinson is more sensitive to the subject. Both Donne and Dickinson are certain that death should not be feared and emphasize...
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... I’m sure I could create turmoil on earth and ruin God’s mankind once and for all.” “Beelzebub, I have sent many to corrupt the earth with death and sin, and while some have come back victorious most fall against God and his guardian angels, you are my right hand man and I need you by my side but if you say that you can cast our revenge on God and remain victorious then I will give you this one opportunity but don’t make me regret this choice.” “Of course Satan, I will make you proud and everyone will see why you’re the one...
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...just 39 when he passed, I was just 10. Thou I was at a tender age, not understanding the meaning of death I knew for sure an amazing dad he was, one who I would never give up for the world. When I reflect upon my life without him I realize there are some things this experience had taught me. In this essay you will read about the experience I had in losing my dad and what I have learnt and come to accept. When my father passed away, 10years ago, my whole life changed, my grades started slipping, I started skipping classes, and I dropped all extra-curricular activities (netball, homework club). I started to become depressed. I felt like there was a hole in my life. He was the dearest person to me. Just when I thought it could never get worse, I dropped out of school due to the lack of school fee payments, a month later I was transferred to the public school and to think that was bad, I became homeless. With all the changes made I tried to settle in with everyone else but I could not adopt to the changes. I still wanted to see his glorious face and his wide smile picking me up after school. Every morning I still wake up thinking that he is there drinking his tea in the room, watching his favorite programs. Then suddenly the truth comes rushing up to me and I realize that it is just a dream hanging around me still, and a cold despair fall upon me. Despite my apparent tranquility and surface brightness, I feel empty inside. My Father’s death was a really sobering...
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...who have seen a loved one go to war and tries in this text to give examples of how people are dealing with their problem in different ways. He seems neutral in his way of describing the different characters’ reactions and it means that you as the reader are freer to form your own opinion and interpretations. The two main characters, the fat man and the woman have different ways to handle the grief. The fat man has lost his son to the war, but doesn’t feel the same kind of sorrow like the other people. He is not really sad for his son’s death, but is very proud because his son died while fighting for his country. The fat man speaks from his own experience and thanks God, because his son before dying sent him a message saying: “he was dying satisfied at having ended his life in the best way he could have wished”. Although he talks about, what you should be proud of your child’s going to war, it is only an outer barrier. Anyway his son's death has been very hard on him...
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...state since the 1977 re-instatement of the death penalty, his death sparked more controversy than one would expect, especially in defense of a convicted ruthless murderer of the innocent. Before his execution Williams’s defense team brought an appeal to the Governor, asking that his sentence of death be repealed on the account that he has experienced a reformation of spirit. Normally this defense is looked at with suspicion, and often used when the convicted has found god or other spiritual path that would prevent their previous behaviors to reappear. In Williams’s case, there was much more solid evidence that his mind and soul had grown from his time in jail, he was nominated for five Nobel Peace Prizes in Literature and Peace. His appeal to have his death sentence overturned was inevitably denied, and he was executed, only to leave behind a legacy of children’s books about the dangers of gangs and the negative affects of weapons on communities. Reformation is, in my opinion, the most powerful part of the human spirit. It comes with age and experience, and when crimes are committed through poor decision making, and /or influence on or from a group of others (which could be applied to Williams’ gang crimes), reformation and religious redemption should be taken into consideration if a review is requested. I am not a religious person by any means, but I am very spiritual and do believe whole-heartedly in the idea of Karma, and while I might not have been involved in crimes that...
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...A Contemplation Upon Flowers A Contemplation Upon Flowers Brave flowers that I could gallant it like you, And be as little vain! You come abroad, and make a harmless show, And to your beds of earth again. You are not proud: you know your birth: For your embroider'd garments are from earth. You do obey your months and times, but I Would have it ever Spring: My fate would know no Winter, never die, Nor think of such a thing. O that I could my bed of earth but view And smile, and look as cheerfully as you! O teach me to see Death and not to fear, But rather to take truce! How often have I seen you at a bier, And there look fresh and spruce! You fragrant flowers! then teach me, that my breath Like yours may sweeten and perfume my death. THE POET: Henry King, English bishop and poet, baptized in January 1591. Henry King died at Christopher on the 30th of September 1669. His works include poems, Elegies, Paradoxes and sonnets (1657). This poem is an example of an ode, a formal way to address someone or something, it is a tribute. The poem is basically about a man wanting to accept death as it is. He watches the flowers accept death as nature. He then learns that the flowers are brave as they go back to the earth. He puts the flowers situation in his and which that they could teach him not to fear death and to be as brave when its time. As a human, I fear death and the consequences of it. It always seems hard to accept that life must come to an end,...
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...Explore the ways parent and child relationships are presented in Romeo and Juliet Romeo and Juliet is set during the Elizabethan period, where society favoured men over women and the women had to obey the men. Fathers were the ones who decided who there daughters would marry and they cant refuse the marriage because if they did they would bring shame upon the family and most likely disowned by them and if this happened they would have nowhere to go as women didn’t really have jobs apart from housework and looking after the children. I think that this society is bad because it is biased towards men and doesn’t give the women a choice for what they want to do in there own life. In Act 1 Scene 2, we learn that Lord Capulet is a fair and just man ‘for men so old as we to keep the peace’ this shows us that he doesn’t want to make the fued between the Montagues anyworse and wants to stay away from all the violence and try to get on with his own life with his family. Paris asks Capulet if he can marry Juliet ‘ but now, my lord, what sat you to my suit’ but Capulet is cautious about allowing Paris to marry Juliet because he feels she is still too young ‘ my child is yet a stranger in the world; she hath not seen the change of fourteen years’ this shows that he is not ready to let his only child go into the world without him yet as she hasn’t had any experience of what its like for women and he wants to protect her from all the bad things in the world , like any father would want to...
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...parent, I believed that my son would outlive me and have sons and daughters of his own, so we could grow old watching them have families of their own, because that was the way of life. I had hopes and dreams for my son. When he died, it completely destroyed my world and left so many unanswered questions. I was completely lost and bereaved. Rebuilding my life and becoming one of the living again has been a long, hard struggle. The death of my son changed my life and me as a person forever. My son chose to end his life on October 3rd 2008. He was only 29 years old. Nothing in my life prepared me for his death. My world ended and everything that I have known in life was shattered. Life as I knew it had changed forever. I couldn’t think or feel anything other than for the pain that was in my heart. My family and my friends worried for me and wanted me to come and stay with them. How could I go and stay with anyone, when I was like a zombie or the living dead. The days did not mean anything to me anymore. Everything I did was like a robot on autopilot. I ate because someone put food in front me and slept when my mind was so exhausted I had to sleep. I knew I had to try to get back into life and live again and rediscover myself as a person. I knew that was what my son would have wanted me to do. I was a completely different person when my son was alive. I loved life, laughed a lot and was happy. I greeted everyday as an adventure and with joy in my heart. I loved...
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...calculation. Claudius is not fully developed as a character within the play. His main role in the play is to be the reason behind Hamlet's confusion and anger, and his search for truth and life's true meaning. But Claudius is not a static character. While his traits are not as greatly explored as Hamlet's, you can still see the great difference between our dark hero Hamlet and Claudius treacherous, usurping King of Denmark. When Claudius is first introduced to the audience , he comes across as an intelligent and very capable king. He gives a speech to make his court and country proud, speaking on his brother's death and the inpendeing conflict with Norway. Claudius knows that this switch in government could give way to problems, and he is afraid of possible bad allegiances and rebellion. His speech compares the people's loss with the new beginning they will have under his protection, and he uses the death of Hamlet's father to bring about a sense of unity , "the whole kingdom/To be contracted in one brow of woe" (1.2.3-4). Claudius takes on the role of chief mourner, and the people are able to unite under the collective suffering. He can now focus on his kingly duties, and he takes quick and decisive action by sending Cornelius and Voltimand to appease the Norwegian king. He also deals with Laertes' request to leave for France. Claudius represents the dark side of human nature lust, greed, corruption, and excess.Claudius, in private, is a very different person. The Ghost...
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...there are many people that say that sandy hook was the schools shooting that started all of the recent shooting because it gave all the kids that were feeling abused and mistreated a idea how to get revenge even if it was to take people's lives which was wrong because nobody deserves to lose their life. But the school shooters go for the little kids or older people because they are defenseless because either there to little out there to old to fight back they want to have complete control. There has been school shooting near me and they really hit home we have have the marshall county shooting which there was a kid that went in to his school and shot a couple of his peers that had been making fun of him that happened on january 23, 2018 there was two dead and eighteen dead. The shooter came in the a crowd of people and open fire. Today's society is crazy especially the younger generation and yes i'm talkin bout my generation and yes i'm talkin about my generation they are so stupid im not proud to call it my generation because these retards are snorting condoms and eating roman noodles out of toilets...
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...Bombs exploded around me, yet I could not move. Bullets flew over my head, yet I could not fire back. My friends fell to the ground around me, yet I could not stop it. It has been two years since the war started. I was once just a young boy, finding joy in the simplest of things. Riding our old horse Jack, playing in the mills, running around the many lands of lush corn. My old life seemed miles away. But that's because it was. I remember the day they came to our village - asking for recruits, for young men willing to serve their life for their country. I didn't hesitate. Although I was only sixteen, but they didn't ask. My brother had already signed up. He's gone now. They had brought us here, to France. When I had first arrived into a little French Village, the maids hanging out the washing, the young boys milking the cows, it was hard to believe that there was even a war on. But there was. Next to me was another boy that looked older than me. He whispered to me, "are you afraid"? I replied back with "Sorry" he then repeated " I meant, are you afraid to die"? My legs started to shake in fear, I then mumble to myself "I will survive" " I will survive" " I will survive"! The boy spoke...
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...should be stop producing, cigarettes, cigars and pipes and selling them to our youth and adults. Smoking is one of the major causes of death in many countries and around the world. Smoking leads to diseases and disability and harms nearly every organ of the body. More than 16 million American are leaving with a disease caused by smoking. Each year around half a million American die of tobacco related diseases, and the other die from secondhand smoke. CDC… (n.d). According to the 2014 Surgeon General’s there have been more 20 million smoking-related deaths in the United States since 1964. . – cancer.org ... (n.d). As result 2.5 million American died from exposure to secondhand smoke. – cancer.org ... (n.d). The immune system is the only way of protecting our body from any infection or diseases. People who smoke are more likely to have respiratory infection. CDC... (n.d). Tobacco-related deaths will increase to more than eight million per year by 2030. More than 80% of those deaths will be in low-and middle-income countries. Tobacco facts. (n.d.). According to World Health Organization (WHO) tobacco is one of the biggest health threats we ever faced in America and around the globe. Due to the fact, every six second a person dies due to Tobacco-related. If tobacco industry knows that medical evidence says that smoking will kill you, why tobacco industry keeps selling them to this country, and why it’s sold around the world? Because the answer is money, capitalism and market. I checked...
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