...They saw them in the outside world and in the human soul. "Sonnets" reveal to us the dialectic of emotional experiences associated with the feeling of love, which is not only the source of the highest joys, but also cause grave suffering. The main theme of the “sonnet 65”- the fact that many things are strong, but there is nothing in this universe is forever, especially not a fleeting emotion, such as love. The general idea - the fact that many things are strong, but there is nothing in this universe is forever, especially not a fleeting emotion, such as love. Mortality governs the universe and everything in this world is perishable, so it is only through the infinite art of writing, that the emotion and beauty can be saved. If you remember the main theme of sonnet 64, it is possible to find similarities, because it is continuing the theme of ”ravages of time”. In addition, we can find words such as main, rage, love, that send us back to Sonnet 64. So, we proceed to the analysis of the poem: First quatrain: The beginning of sonnet: "brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea" can escape the ravages of time. In this line, the author used such stylistic devise as gradation: “brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea”, it is a personification the materials of the nature. The second line means that all this main features are subject to death. Line 3 asks, "How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea," characterizing beauty as the plaintiff in a legal dispute. Time...
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...Suad Hersi ENG 4UE-25 Ms. WinicK August 6th, 2015 Dreamland “A poem is a communication from one soul to another that makes one or both hearts sing” (Mayes, 1998). A good poem should be written with a concise and accurate use of diction and connotation in order to accurately portray a meaningful theme or hidden message. Poetry has the ability to encapsulate broad ideas with a minimal use of words through the use of different literary and poetic devices. Edgar Allan Poe’s unfortunate loss of both parents and upbringing with adoptive parents were his inspiration for his many poems and short stories, which reflected on his alienation, loneliness, grief and sorrow. I believe the poem “Dreamland” by Edgar Allan Poe is the best poem in the world for the reason being that it uses an effective form and rhyming scheme and effectively uses literary and poetic devices such as allusions, personification, and hyperboles in order to convey the message of grief and one’s search for their “dreamland”. The form of the poem Dreamland is written in Iambic Tetrameter couplets that are separated into different stanzas. Poe uses an A-A-B-B rhyming scheme during every stanza, which focuses on making the last word in the end of a verse rhyme with the following line’s last verse. Poe effectively captures the poetic device of allusion as he uses references to mythology such as El Dorado to capture the essence of paradise and hope. In the poem, “Tis...
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...For many years, authors like H.G Wells and Jules Verne have blown readers away with their creative predictions of the future. Science fiction is a genre that includes fictional books about technology and science in a future setting. Popular science fiction novels are 2,000 Leagues Under the Sea, The Hunger Games, and The War of the Worlds. But science fiction is also seen in short stories."Old Glory" is a dystopian short story about a future United States. Unlike in The Hunger Games, the narrator does not feel like the setting is dystopian. In the future United States, people cannot say anything they want. If they speak out, they are killed. "Harrison Bergeron" is also dystopian and is a society where everyone must be equal. While reading the story, readers find out that equality in fact is not always right if used...
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...Intro Four hundred years have passed since William Shakespeare penned his last play. Yet his language, themes and characters are as alive today as they were when the first plays were. The plays have been performed in almost every language, on stage and screen and at popular festivals around the world. Shakespearean works are required to read for high school English students. Even in prisons, teachers find that Shakespeare offers contemporary connections that open pathways to learning for some of society’s weakest. The reason his work is so popular is that Shakespeare wrote about human nature and how people behave. That is why, although his words can be hard to understand, his ideas are as relevant now as they were four centuries ago. Characters...
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...Ch.2 Week 2 Notes: Cosmogonic myths pick up the action at a point just before the divine touch creates time and space. Before this critical moment, though there are often gods or a god preceding the world or the physical universe, the only thing that exists is the infinite potential of chaos. Not unlike the Genesis account of creation, most of the world’s creation myths begin with an eternal being sleeping within or hovering in contemplation above the infinite abyss of a primeval sea. These waters represent the “chaos” of a world without physical form, where no height, no depth, no breadth, no time, and no created beings exist. All is quiet; everything rests in a state of infinite potential. At the decisive moment, potential universes give way to the one in which we actually live. * Maclagan suggests, in Creation Myths: Man’s Introduction to the World, that Cosmogonic narratives are patterned after the following themes: (1)inner and outer; (2) horizontal and vertical; (3) something from nothing; (4) the conjugation of opposites; (5) world order and the order of worlds; (6) descent and ascent; (7) earth body and sacrifice; and (8) death, time, and the elements. In these various schemes, we see areas of overlap, which suggests that a finite number of motifs are at work in creation myths. * Weigle’s Creation and Procreation: Feminist Reflections on Mythologies of Cosmogony and Parturition presents the most nuanced typology of creation myths. Building upon Eliade...
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...Beowulf: The Mother Poem Beowulf is an important work of the Anglo-Saxon culture. In the poem it depicts Beowulf as a famous hero, full of endless courage and infinite strength. Through his vigorous journeys, he encounters many treacherous obstacles and monsters, but never feels distress. As leader of the Geats, he shows superb leadership skills, taking pride in both his and his peoples’ name. Nonetheless, he boasts about his achievements and heroic battles that he has encountered. The author’s style differs from that of any other due to the unique kennings being used throughout the poem. The tone interchanges throughout the entire work; gives countless numbers of kennings, and has graphic imagery. Beowulf, the “mother poem” of England, explains the import values of diction, tone, imagery, and style, it also informs us about the Geat culture and characteristics of honor, kinship, and courage....
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...The piece I decided to review is “A Breathtaking Piano Piece,” by Jervy Hou. At first glance of it’s title, I knew it would be “breathtaking,” and it really did meet my standards. It truly felt like I was in one of those typical romance and happy ending movies or musicals. I felt free as I closed my eyes and made some of the everyday stress go away. Incidentally, this piece is very complex in the fact that it has many sections of music and you are able to hear distinct themes between each of those sections. It mostly followed an A-B-A-C-A pattern. I think the composer was trying to convey a sense of wonder and imagination. As I listened to the music, the feeling of infinite happiness loved oversee, like everything that ever went wrong in my...
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...An Explication of The Marriage of Heaven and Hell William Blake’s trouble with orthodoxy within religion was never more apparent than in his poem The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. It becomes clear that his problems with the Church run deeper than just their organization, but with their views on good and evil, and there is still debate today about what Blake’s true feelings were and how they were conveyed through the poem. This paper will simply explain the nature of the poem and the events that come together within it. The beginning of Marriage sets up an image of a man walking through a “perilous path” that is described as “The vale of death” (Blake 1.4-5). Rintrah, a personification of wrath, watches the man be swayed from his path by the “sneaking serpent,” which can easily be interpreted as the Devil (Blake 1.17). The man is driven into the wild to fend for himself, where he will struggle and be tempted by the good and evil sides of himself and of the world. The next plate that Blake writes is not in a poetic form, but instead calls forth a challenge to the Swedenborgian view of religion. He humorously writes that “it is now thirty-three years since its advent: the Eternal Hell revives. And lo! Swedenborg is the Angel sitting at the tomb: his writings are the linen clothes folded up” (Blake 3). Blake’s jokes about Swedenborg’s relationship to Jesus Christ and his changes to the Christian church lead into his next point, which is how contradictory he believes these...
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...separated its literary heritage from Europe, partly because there were successful literary genius flourishing there. He never received hardly any credit for any of his works. Melville wrote such novels as Moby-Dick, and Billy Budd. He also wrote about things that he knew about. He wrote about his own experiences. The one thing that he loved, and knew the most about was whaling. During Herman’s childhood he lived in the good neighborhoods of New York City. In 1832 he suffered tragedy when his father died after trying to cope with the stress of debts and misfortunes. After a short time in a business house in New York City, Herman determined he needed to go to sea. He spent years traveling on a variety of ships, including whaling ships. Melville s perspective on life is that God created the universe with an infinite number of meanings and man is always trying to determine one specific meaning. The lessons that Melville is likely to weave into his writing are: an exposition on whales and the whaling industry, a commentary on the universe and human destiny, and thoughts about God and Nature. As he wrote Melville became conscious of deeper powers. In 1849 he began a systematic study of Shakespeare, pondering the bard's intuitive grasp of human nature. Like Hawthorne, Melville could not accept the prevailing optimism of his generation. Unlike his friend, he admired Emerson, seconding the Emerson demand that Americans reject European ties and develop their own literature. Experience...
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...Unite. Then they start to write to each other, asking how their lives are and etc. until Jed tells her that he ''drove his wife insane'' because she wasn't her - the narrator. She is shocked after she reads it. She always thought her life was boring, and all her energy and wildness was gone, that she is reserved. But she is shocked because she had always thought, that Jed's life was perfect, that he was over it and moved on a long time ago. She doesn't reply, but deletes the mail and it was gone into ''infinite cyberspace''. The story only evolves around two characters: the female narrator and Jed Cunningham. They are at the same age and British. She is living somewhere in the UK in a suburban neighbourhood with her husband, two children and her dog Bramble. She writes articles for a newspaper or magazine and picks her daughter up from school every day. We actually just know a few facts about the middle aged Jim, that he is living alone in some remote place by the sea with his dog Roger. It's the only fact the narrator knows about him, and therefore the only fact we know about him. But in the story, our narrator describes the young Jim that she was in love with: He was the coolest of the cool with the fashion...
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...The “commencement speech” is a genre of writing that does not like to color outside of the lines. In them, you will hear platitudes such as “this is the beginning of the rest of your life” and “go change the world” that never fail to make the audience roll their eyes. In the vast sea of mediocre commencement speeches, only a few stray from the typical commencement speech formula and are considered exceptional. One of these notable commencement speeches is “This is Water” by David Foster Wallace. In his 2005 commencement speech to Kenyon College, David Foster Wallace’s makes a complete one-eighty from the typical commencement speech; discussing complex topics that were all too vital to the baby-faced, liberal arts graduates. He tackled the...
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...beliefs and his ability to use nature in symbolism of this. Not only showing his love and views it also makes clear his involvement and passion or the natural world.‘ I pour my soul out to it in love’ represented by this continued metaphor is Carpenters obvious passion for nature and its prevalence in his life. He has a clearly involvement and appreciation to nature displaying its importance to man. This manifests itself into carpenter becoming one with nature and the consciousness of the world, ‘the warm breath of each life ascends past me;’ this clear and physical response to the microcosm he has created displays his involvement both physically and mentally acting to emphasise his love or all which surrounds him. These shared ideas and themes displayed in both poems are representative of the complex relationship between man and nature displayed through love, consciousness and its wider involvement in society. The two poems also display contrasting elements in the perception of nature, depth of exploration into consciousness and the finite expression of time and lie. The expression and image created o nature in ‘April’ is both softer and warmer than that expressed in ‘By the shore’. This may act as symbolism of the volatility and natural changeability of the world both in nature and wider society. ‘April’s positive and gentleness in its portrayal of nature is clear from the...
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...Nathan K. Marsland Mrs. Lauren Williams English III April 1st, 2015 Melville was born in a time of American history where inspiring works of American literature began to emerge. It was also a time when America had not completely separated its literary heritage from Europe, partly because there were successful literary genius’ flourishing there. Melville proved to be a genius of his own, with his many works such as Moby Dick, Billy Bud, and Bartleby. Three distinct themes could be seen throughout most of his literature; whales and the whaling industry, commentary on the universe and human destiny, and ideas about God and nature. Moby Dick is an incredible work by Melville most often referred to as an epic, a tragedy, a novel, an exposition on the whaling, and a spiritual autobiography. It is often overlooked that a deeper, more symbolic, meaning may have been the driving force behind Moby Dick. Herman Melville was born on August 1, 1819, to Allan and Maria Melville. He was the third of eight children in the Melville family. He was generally described as silent and slow; his mother thought him to be a very dull child. In 1832 Melville suffered tragedy when his father died. Finishing school when he was fifteen, Melville took service as cabin boy aboard the St. Lawrence. After returning to his home in New York for some time after serving as cabin boy, Melville took berth as an ordinary seaman aboard a whaling ship called the Acushnet. After approximately four and a half...
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...using elaborate and descriptive words. Sometimes these images are transferred into an actual visual by the subsequent creation of films based upon these great works. “2001: A Space Odyssey” by Stanley Kubrick is an example of such as it is based upon the literary short story, “The Sentinel” by Arthur C. Clarke. Kubrick has done an astounding job at developing the original short story by combining music with visual images way before it’s time. The film allows its viewers to see the original short story told by Clarke, creatively expanded and elaborated upon in comparison with great detail. Table of Contents Introduction The Sentinel (Arthur C. Clarke), 1951 • Descriptive Elements • Theme – First contact 2001: A Space Odyssey by Stanley Kubrick, 1968 • Style, Visual and Music Elements • Theme – Evolution Conclusion References The Sentinel and 2001: A Space Odyssey Introduction “2001: A Space Odyssey” (1968) has been called, “The most spectacular vision of the future,” and “Eerily accurate and wild with suspense” (Nashawaty, 2011). It is an epic science fiction film based on the short story, “The Sentinel” (1951), written by Arthur C Clarke. Comparing the literary work from Clarke, to the fully elaborated film by Kubrick, it can be said that there is very little similarities. Kubrick has managed to develop Clark’s ideas into an epic movie that must be seen to be fully appreciated considering the time period in which the film was created. The Sentinel (Arthur C. Clarke)...
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...Life of Pi Theme of Religion At times, Life of Pi reads like a defense of religion. Has science proved religion wrong? Here's a protagonist who believes passionately in both zoology and religion. What about the fact of multiple faiths? Don't these faiths contradict each other, cause wars, and other problems? Here's a protagonist who is Muslim, Christian, and Hindu – all at the same time. The book defends not only the common spirit behind these three religions, but the rituals and ceremonies of each. It's as if all three religions find harmonious common ground in this character. Seems unlikely, but then again, the protagonist argues passionately that the miraculous happens in our darkest moments. Quote #1But I don't insist. I don't mean to defend zoos. Close them all down if you want (and let us hope that what wildlife remains can survive in what is left of the natural world). I know zoos are no longer in people's good graces. Religion faces the same problem. Certain illusions about freedom plague them both. (1.4.14) | Do zoos incarcerate animals in confined spaces and make them miserable? Pi doesn't think so: "Certain illusions about freedom" tempt us to this conclusion. In actuality, an animal's life in the wild is more circumscribed than "a knight on a chessboard" (1.4.8). Predator-prey relationships restrict the animal's movement. A zoo enclosure is actually more like a hearth for an animal: a place of comfort and rest. Likewise, most people think of religion as a restrictive...
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