In “The Song of Despair” by Pablo Neruda, the speaker talks about their lost love. The poem is about how the love between the speaker and a woman ended. It tells readers the nature of their relationship and what it has become now. Neruda uses simile and repetition throughout the poem to help express that lost love cannot always be mended. Throughout the poem, the author uses similes to describe how it feels like to lose someone you love. “You swallowed everything, like distance./Like the sea, like
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John Nim’s poem is written in free verse style with little to no alliterations, similes, or any other literary device. The author begins with describing some sort of “power” that we can also assume is gravity and later on when he mentions gravity in a warning sign. The author refers to gravity as her and she. In the first five stanzas, the author talks about the wonders of gravity and the beauty she holds compared to the other forces of the earth, like lightning, tornadoes, hurricanes, and other
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FOUNDATIONS OF TAOIST PRACTICE by Jampa Mackenzie Stewart When you try to define Taoism, you immediately run into trouble. The great Taoist philosopher and author of the Tao Te Ching, Lao Tzu, begins his first chapter with the warning words, The Tao that can be described is not the eternal Tao. The name that can be named is not the eternal name. Thus Westerners are not the only ones who have a hard time defining Taoism; the Chinese have had difficulty time agreeing on just what Taoism is for millenia
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one ear and out the next, but without it, I wouldn’t have been able to bear the unexpected. During my freshman year of high school, my father was diagnosed with colon cancer. I remember being taken by surprise and developing an unexpected emptiness. I felt nothing. I was in denial. Despite the fact my mind went blank, I only remember wondering how anyone could view my life as anything remotely close to “a heaven.” My Friday nights were spent in waiting rooms as I flipped through outdated
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Dag Hammarsköld once said, “The present moment is significant, not as the bridge between past and future, but by reason of its contents, which can fill our emptiness and become ours, if we are capable of receiving them.” The Swedish culture is a lot like this quote, they take advantage of every moment that passes even if it’s not so significant, focus on the present not the past or the future. In Sweden there is a high preference for a loosely-knit social framework in which individuals are expected
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and Sundays, we used to walk the dogs, have a little picnic. The first days the pain was stronger. It made me sick and weak. I was really worried about him, because he might get hurt… or worse. I couldn’t stand his emptiness in the house. I just locked myself in my room and cried. Every single day for the past 6 months I hoped that he would walk through the door and say : “Hey, Emy!”. Actually, I am proud of him, being brave and strong
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We Deserve Better Food Growing up, our parents have exposed us to plenty of processed and fake food. As a child, this has consequently caused the feeling of emptiness if we are not able to have our beloved snacks. We thrive on being able to get our hands on something that is not so good for us and most of the time we are not educated on what is actually in our packaged or fast foods. All we know is when we eat it, we enjoy every second of it until it is gone and then we crave more. The brain is
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would have done as well. Prayerless prayers are not only a perversion, a waste, a delusion, but they manufacture unbelievers by the score. They get no answers and produce no gracious results. They are vain performances, and others recognize their emptiness and barren results. Men hear of the prodigious benefits secured by prayer, of the matchless good promised in God’s word to prayer, and they mark at once the great gulf between the results promised and results realized… Prayerless praying lacks
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Michitsuna’s Mother, the author of Kagero Diary who is a noble lady during Heian period of Japan. She suffers from a shattered marriage as her husband neither visits nor sends her any message for months. As an attempt to overcome the solitude and emptiness of her disappointing marital life, the author leaves for a pilgrimage to Kamo Shrine. However, the pilgrimage is meaningless - if not miserable - and the New Year comes without any change to the situation. Half of the first month of the New Year
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I was the only lonely child who had been born to my family after 25 years. Therefore, I lived with all adults near me; so, my parents decided to give me a sibling. All of the sudden my parents were giving me so much more attention, I used to get almost everything before and if not by my parents then by my grandparents and if not by my grandparents, then my aunt would get it for me. It was like a big filter, but instead of filtering, I just got it. However, I saw the difference when I saw my mom
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