...The Paradox of Death Death comes to us all one way or another, there is no escaping death. Our natural life’s cycle must take its course. The core focal point of this exposition is to compare and contrast the symbol of death and impermanence in the poems Because I Could Not Stop for Death by Emily Dickinson and Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night by Dylan Thomas. Each poem offers a different perspective towards accepting death. In one literary work we have someone who welcomed death submissively, in contrast to another literary work where the author is willing someone dear to him to fight against death. Together the two literary works incorporated the same theme with dissimilar points of view, ranging from the way they utilize their respective literary devices such as personification, point of view, symbolism, figure of speech, tone, mood and imagery. The unconformity of the poems “Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night” and “Because I Could Not Stop for Death” overshadows the parallel theme of death connecting them. The first poem I’ll discuss will be the poem “Because I Could Not Stop for Death” by Emily Dickinson, which is written in the using a meter form. In agreement with Karen Silvestri, “meter in poetry is what brings the poem to life and is the internal beat or rhythm with which it is read (Silvestri, 2014)”. “Poetry is meant to be recited and the number of beats per line of spoken poetry determines the name of the rhythm, though not often seen, rhythms are named...
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...be able to compliment and admire her if they had to time to sit down, think where they would walk, and their love would grow slowly but vastly. Furthermore, the speaker also states that if he had more time, he would focus on each part of his mistress’s body for hundreds of years until he had gotten to her heart. In the next stanza, the speaker states that they do not have time, since life is short and death is forever. He states that eventually, beauty will no longer exist due to aging and when she is dead, she will not be able to hear the speaker’s song when inside her coffin. Furthermore, the speaker states that the worms will try to take her virginity and will result in his no longer feeling love for his mistress. In the last two lines of the stanza, he comments that a grave is a nice and private place but does not have much room to be together and embrace. In the last stanza, the speaker once again compliments his mistress’s beauty and youth and that they should embrace just like the birds of prey and play games. In the last few lines, the speaker states that time cannot stop even though he wants to have more time; however, time gains the speaker pleasure with his mistress. | Speaker | The speaker of the poem is an anonymous male who speaks about his mistress extremely highly. He feels as if he has a lack of time and that time is a trap to the speaker. Ironically, the speaker needs time in order...
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...Approaching the Work Anthology How to compare the poems Meerkat Poetry Meerkat Poetry In section B of your AS exam, you will be asked to write one essay about the poems in the Work anthology. You will be given a choice of two questions. You can compare and contrast at least two poems of your choice, in response to a statement: OR You can compare one named poem and one other of your choice, in response to a statement: All the poems that you choose must come from the Work section of the anthology, which you have studied. How will my response be marked? Your response will be marked for three assessment objectives: AO1: 15 marks: AO2 – 5 marks: AO3 - 20 marks: TASK 1: Understanding how to compare Look carefully at the mark scheme for AO3. In addition to what is noted above, it always states: “In order to meet the AO3 requirement, effective comparison and contrast will need to be demonstrated.” Answer the following questions. 1. How are you asked to show similarities between the poems? 2. How are you asked to show differences? 3. What is meant by “literary” – what might you refer to in a literary response? Sample question with its indicative content from the mark scheme: For 5a: Compare all the way through, all your points should lead to exploring a similarity of a difference Compare all the way through, all your points should lead to exploring a similarity of a difference It’s OK to disagree with the statement in the question It’s OK to disagree with the statement in...
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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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...Life Analysis of the poem” Because I Could not Stop for Death” from Emily Dickinson “Because I Could not Stop for Death” is a poem written by the famous American poet Emily Dickinson in nineteenth century. She was born in Amherst, Massachusetts. Because she did not care about being famous or getting benefit from her writing, only 7 of her poems got published out of 1775. In 1886, after she died, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, a famous American writer collected her poems and published them in 1890, but most poems got changed. Till 1995, her poem was collected by Tomas Johnson and changed back to what they were. Tomas Wentworth Higginson thought her poem showed her specially understanding of nature and life, she had the deepest, and creative insight. Death, Eternal, and Love are three important theme of Dickinson’s poems. Dickinson was good at observing, and detailed describing. Most of her poems were from her experience and her own feeling, and her poems could give readers a usual and deep feeling. She was one of the greatest and effective female poets in nineteenth century. Her poem “Because I Could not Stop for Death” was famous of the distinctive understanding of Death. Dickinson’s understanding of Death was so distinctive and meanwhile, the poem was full of Philosophy. The poem “Because I Could not Stop for Death” was short but veiled. The whole poem contained of 24 lines, 6 verses, and 4 verses made 4 lines of the poem. Dickinson combined Death with formal elements to show...
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...woman. Larkin explores marriage with negative connotations in ‘An Arundel Tomb’ and ‘Self’s the Man’. In ‘An Arundel Tomb’ he portray the assumptions that people make of the Earl and Countess’s marriage and the reality of the lack of love within it. He does the same in ‘Self’s the Man’ with the apparent pressures put on men to support a women and reveal his sexist view of women though the explicit showing of woman mindlessly taking advantage of men. Similar to Larkin, Emily Dickinson expresses her negative opinion on marriage in ‘Because I Could Not Stop for Death’ and ‘She Rose to His Requirement’, expressing a woman’s loss of identity once married and the liabilities it causes. In ‘Because I Could Not Stop for Death’ (712) she inexplicitly create a link between death and marriage through the thought of a woman’s previous lifestyle dying to make marriage the first and only priority. In ‘She Rose to His Requirement’ (732) Dickinson create a contrast with the connotations of marriage, on the outside, it seems like something to pride oneself in but truly, it is a form of oppression for women. In Larkin’s ‘An Arundel Tomb’ he suggests that the Countess and Earl’s marriage have just become the modern perception of the marriage being a symbol of platonic love and it does it reflect the people during their time alive. Though the poem is seemingly sweet, Larkin ends it on a dark note by contrasting with the thought that this one...
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...Explore how Shakespeare and Heaney present the theme of fathers and sons… The extract I have chosen comes from Act 1 Scene 2 where Claudius and Gertrude decide to confront Hamlet because of his weeping just after the King Hamlets death. “'Tis sweet and commendable in your nature, Hamlet, To give these mourning duties to your father; But, you must know, your father lost a father,” this quote is used to show how Claudius is patronising Hamlet. He is trying to be nice to Hamlet and tries to stop Hamlet form mourning about his father but he doesn’t really empathise with him as Hamlet and Claudius are not close at all and Hamlet doesn’t really like Claudius. Further to this, Claudius uses the nouns ‘mourning duties’ which portrays that he lacks sympathy towards his brother’s death and he conveys that Hamlet is exaggerating the whole situation about his father’s death. He also goes on and talks about a father losing a father which shows that he thinks Hamlets behaviour is unmanly and that he should be stronger. Claudius doesn’t really portray any warmth and love toward Hamlet which shows that they are very distant. On the other hand, in the Heaney poem “Follower” The poet describes his relationship with his father as being very strong and conveys how proud he is about his father. “Sometimes he rode me on his back” He describes his memories with his father when he was little which shows the connection between the father and son. The father cares about the son and tries to show love...
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...Emily Dickinson’s short poem “I heard a Fly buzz – when I died” is, upon first glance, simultaneously mundane and complex. The speaker, for lack of much concrete evidence, it can be assumed is Dickinson herself. Very little is, in fact, revealed about the speaker; who is she? How old is she? How did she die? For the setting, the reader finds the speaker on her deathbed in her death throes surrounded by her friends and family. Where the speaker is exactly, and what time of day or year it is are not directly revealed. The audience is unclear; given that the speaker is speaking from beyond the grave – an unusual device that Dickinson uses in several of her poems, such as “Because I could not stop for Death”, in order imbue Death with an animate...
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...For him is a purpose of finding the answer to the reason of our existence. His poetic technique that he uses as the first person is a revolutionary movement, a conversion of the poetry existed before. A new way of self-expression, that is, criticizing the old traditions. His new perspective of life tries to change not only the poetry of this era but maybe he is the intended to change even the American attitude. ‘’I celebrate myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. I loafe and invite my Soul, I lean and loafe at my ease . . . . observing a spear of summer grass.’’ These lines prove that the poet wants to affect directly to the readers mind in the first person which is at the same time formal, straightforward, playful. ‘’Because I could not stop for Death –He kindly stopped for me –The Carriage held but just. Ourselves –And Immortality. We slowly drove – He knew no haste , And I had put away, My labor and my leisure too, For His Civility –’’ Dickinson shows in the lines above that she isn’t afraid of the Death, on the contrary, she is very familiar with...
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...Compare and contrast how ‘Futility’ and ‘Out of the Blue’ deal with the issue of death. In ‘Out of the Blue’ and ‘Futility’, we see the ways that the poets portray their feelings about death. In Simon Armitage’s ‘Out of the Blue’ the death has not occurred yet however it shows how the poet portrays feelings of oncoming death. In ‘Futility’ the poet shows the futile nature of war in the useless loss of life as a young soldier loses his life. Owen uses imagery to evoke an emotive response from the reader. The poet uses natural imagery to remind the reader of the pointlessness of life. The sun, a powerful and evocative image of life, has no power in the revival of the young soldier in the poem. This image is contrasted with the image of the soldier being in the ‘snow’ which is often equated with death as it is cold and pale. This is effective because it shows that due to the effects of war, even a powerful archetype such as the sun, worshipped in many cultures for having powers, has no use as a young life is wasted and left to lie in the snow. The image of ‘fields half sown’ is also used to evoke an emotive response as it implies that the war had taken half of the population with it, devastating ‘home’, a place most think of as being untouchable and a haven. This quote also relates to the dead soldier being young as half sown could refer to the fighting youth’s lives being cut short. In contrast, in ‘Out of the Blue’, the death has not happened yet. The poem is told from the...
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...English Essay Bridget Keehan: Sorry for the Loss (2008) Throughout human history, we have looked for answers. And we still do. Answers can be found in religion, science, philosophy, but some questions have no conclusive answers. One of these questions is ‘what is good, and what is evil’? While we have laws and rules, both as religions and society, the distinction between good and evil is never precise. Does an evil offense make the offender evil or is it only the offense itself that is evil, and not the offender? These questions are what this story revolves around. Sorry for the Loss is a short story from 2008, written by welsh writer Bridget Keenan. The story is told in the third person from the point of view of the story’s main character, the prison chaplain Evie. This makes the story very personal, as the reader gets access to Evie’s thoughts on prison life and on some of the major themes of the story. One thing to note is that almost all of Evie’s thoughts are related to the prison, which creates a sense of confinement, something that ties in well with the setting of the story. The story begins in medias res, which means that the reader has no background information about Evie or the prison, and is immediately presented to the main plot of the story. Furthermore, the story contains an open ending, which does not give the reader full closure on the main plot nor the major themes. This composition creates a sense that the actual plot is less important than the themes...
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...and what we need to be aware of April 22nd is Earth Day 2014 Below is a list of songs that relate to our earth and what we need to be aware of April 22nd marks Earth Day, which globally celebrates the planet you're currently living on (it gives us air, water, food, Internet: what else could you want?). For as long as popular music has been around, musicians and artists have been writing odes for Mother Earth, asking listeners to respect this planet as best you can -- either as literally or metaphorically in their lyrics as they can. You all know some of the big Earth anthems, like Michael Jackson's "Earth Song" and Marvin Gaye's "Mercy Mercy Me", so we're adding 13 more infamous songs dedicated to the world and keeping it sustainable to this special Earth Day playlist. #GoGreen! No. | Learning Intention | Success Criteria | √ or x | 1 | Understand the relevance of the EUP topic to produce an effective title page | Uni/Multistructural:I can identify the five key environmental issuesI can define sustainabilityI can define key terms relevant to EUP | | | | | | | | | | | | Relational:I can explain my perspective on environmental issuesI can compare & contrast sustainability with non-sustainability | | | | Extended Abstract:I can...
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...Life is Beautiful/ Night Compare & Contrast Essay During WWII one of the most horrific, crimes of mankind occurred under the leadership of Adolf Hitler. This crime was the Holocaust, which imprisoned many Jewish people in internment camps, and slaughtered over six million. In the book Night by Elie Wiesel and Roberto Benigni’s Life is Beautiful they both convey their message about the holocaust in similar and different ways. In the book and movie they both had a motif of god, and his relationship with man. In the book Wiesel reflects on god in many ways. During the beginning of the book Elie was very religious, he even said “by day I studied Talmud and by night I would run to synagogue and weep over the destruction of the temple” (Wiesel 3). This shows the Wiesel was very religious and did infact believe in God at the beginning of the book, but throughout the book Elie does begin to question God and even...
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...Compare/Contrast: Interpreting Aggressive Disguise and Revision Has a person ever wondered how a horror tale and folklore could ever possibly be akin each other? Look no further, here is the paper about horror and folklore being similar. “The Monkey’s Paw”, a horror novella written by W.W Jacobs, is about a small household of a son, a mother, and a father that acquire a mysterious artifact (A Monkey’s Paw) that can grant three wishes to three men. After making their first wish and seeing the outcome, they wonder if changing their destiny with their wishes was a good idea at all. “Aunty Misery”, by Judith Ortiz Cofer, is a short story about a woman who makes a wish for children to stop plucking the pears off from her pear tree. Though the...
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...vengeance for inflicting hurt or harm masking other emotions and reason, therefore, making one act blindly. In William Shakespeare’s play, The Tragedy of Hamlet, the play deals with three revenge plots. Each revenge plot involves three sons seeking vengeance for the death of a father which highlights the inadequacy of revenge. The inadequacy of revenge is demonstrated through the actions of Hamlet, Fortinbras, and Laertes due to the fact that they get caught up in their emotions and motives, and do not fulfill their intended purposes. Hamlet constantly struggles to swiftly avenge his father King Hamlet, murdered by “the serpent that stung the whole ear of Denmark(1.5.36)”, King Claudius. The ghost tells Hamlet that he was poisoned by his brother Claudius and demands Hamlet to “revenge his foul and most unnatural murder(1.5.25).” Hamlet responds eagerly “with wings as swift may sweep to [his] revenge(1.5.31)” before Hamlet knows that his uncle killed his father. After finding out it was his uncle, Hamlet sounds hesitant to kill a king and “couple hell”. Nevertheless, Hamlet writes down a call to action or motto to avenge his father, “so, uncle, there are you. Now to my word: it is ‘Adieu, adieu! Remember me.’ I have sworn’t(1.5.112).” Still hesitant, Hamlet proposes a play for the king that encompasses the ghost’s story. After watching one of the players(actor) speak “a broken voice in a dream of passion(2.2.570)” he is bewildered his inability to avenge his father, but an...
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