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- 13071: "Ode on a Grecian Urn"
- ... The urn is still unravished bride of quietness" Keats is saying that the urn is a "bride" yet still kind of pure like a virgin. It's full of young love and the promise of new and intimate discovery. He's saying that the urn will be explored from different standpoints, at different times, and by different individuals. Although a "bride," it can never be entirely fulfilled. In the next line ... or identity such a work can possess for a later age or state of human development. It tries to display the power and limits of imagination. The urn plays a role both in the eternal world of myth and human history, in time and beyond it. The poem provides no final answer to the mystery of the urn, or the scenes it depicts but rather complicates our response to them, by ...
- 13072: Comparisons of “Report of the French Commission on American Education, 1879” to Mike Rose’s “I Just Wanna Be Average”
- ... America, as seen by the French, was a land of golden opportunities available to every child regardless of social standing. It was the basis for our country to survive. It safeguarded our standing in the world. Mike Rose’s school offered quite the opposite. It was a haven for long standing views on school being selective as to whom actually deserved the education. The only hope of the present school system ... society that allows children to enter as equals often has them placed in a track before actual classroom time. The French commission saw American educators as the forefathers for society. It is a much different world. Mike Rose’s essay points out specific flaws of uninterested instructors and flawed systems of placement. Thus creating boundaries the average student can never surpass. Students today are far different than those of the French commission. In 1879, America was growing to keep up with the world. Education is the basis for any society to succeed. The thought of education today in America is to succeed for an individual basis. The overwhelming feeling of pride for America has diminished. Educational and ...
- 13073: E. E. Cummings
- ... for your mind. “The green silence”, although not a true description of something tangeble, does force you you to think fondly upon silence. This is also true of similar phrases,”white earth”, “fine sunlight”, “warm world”. His description is obviously one of a spring day. What is truly interesting about this poem is the levels in it. Although it is one complete poem, it is actually comprised of three levels. The ... his poetry is the mystery. His poetry can be viewed as nonsense and maybe rightfully so with such obstacles in understanding. But I believe his radical style to be the attraction. Maybe everything in this world was not meant to be rationally understood. Anyone lived in a pretty how town anyone lived in a pretty how town (with up so floating many bells down) spring summer autumn winter he sang his ... rain up into the silence the green up into the silence the green silence with a white earth in it you will (kiss me) go out into the morning the young morning with a warm world in it (kiss me) you will go on into the sunlight the fine sunlight with a firm day in it you will go (kiss me down into your memory and a memory and memory ...
- 13074: Catullus
- ... for this woman. At times playful, others more erotic, these poems represent the strange relationship Catullus found himself in. The history between Catullus and the woman he refers to as Lesbia is one of the world’s famous passions. (Wheeler, pg. 93) The woman who he writes about is really a woman by the name of Clodia. Through what we know of Catullus and the times that scholars can gather from ... disguise by using it as an opportunity for lamenting the tears in Lesbia’s eyes. (Havelock, pg. 20) Catullus’ poems for Lesbia follow a very detailed sequence. The early poems show his emotional attachment and new feelings for a woman he considers to be the most special of them all. As we read on to more of his poems, we start to witness a rejection of this passion and resentfulness from ...
- 13075: Dulce et Decorum est: Analysis of Military Life
- ... and dying, but an outcry for human beings to stop spreading the notion that men and women who die in battle also die in honor. Most of the men going off to fight during the World Wars could be classified as men at all. A person would be oblivious to this fact, however, if they relied on Owen's descriptive text alone concerning the way he saw his fellow soldiers in ... the poem is over is quite different. This poem is ironical because it reveals the discrepancy in the saying- "It is sweet and fitting to die for one's country," a belief held during the World Wars and even by some today- and what is actually true. There is nothing "sweet"about stench of phosgene gas and mustard bombs or "fitting" about having your body thrown into a wagon after you've died.. The prophetic death of Owen only one week before the Armistice in World War I while fulfilling his allegiant commitment only made this poem more powerful in the point it was trying to get across. While this saying gave people feelings of patriotism and loyalty (or maybe ...
- 13076: Humanity's Fall In The Garden of Eden In Paradise Lost
- ... convention when writing Book two and in doing so convinces the reader to believe that evil is poised to triumph over good. The fall in the Garden of Eden marks humanity's entry into a world of sin forevermore. It is because of the severity of this sin that evil is portrayed in a much more convincing manner than good. When writing this poem Milton sought to coerce people into believing ... a non bias way, instead he forces his view on the reader as if his opinion is the way it is. Works Cited Milton, John. Paradise Lost. The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Sixth Edition, New York: Norton, 1996.
- 13077: Emily Dickenson And the Theme of Death
- ... are dealing with their loss in this next passage: "A Wooden way Regardless grown, A Quartz contentment, like a stone--" To deal with their loss, the mourners have separated themselves from the rest of the world. Their reaction to this catastrophe has become one of denial, causing each to develop "A...contentment, like a stone--." "Because I could not stop for death--," another famous Emily Dickenson poem, renders a highly unusual ... to those who are worthy of heaven? Emily Dickenson had the rare talent to ingeniously transform death, a normally unwelcome subject matter, into creative and highly thoughtful pieces of literature. Dickenson's poems show us new ways of looking at death and its effects. Through inventive diction paired with graphic imagery and sometimes shocking perspectives, Dickenson captures our imaginations with her timeless works.
- 13078: Ansel Adams
- February 20, 1902, a photographer was born. Born and raised in San Francisco, California, Ansel Easton Adams was the only child of New England parents, Charles Hitchcock and Olive Adams. Adams' father was a businessman, whose company included an insurance agency and chemical plant. Ansel took an interest in music at an early age. He selfly taught himself ... him a season pass to the Panama Pacific Worlds Fair, in which he visited annually. Ansel took much interest in the Armory Show exhibition. This exhibition contained modern art that had been first presented in New York City in 1913. There was also a music exhibition that took Ansel's interest. Ansel took his first photograph in 1916 at age 19, when he and his parents went on a trip to ... Ansel's work for the first time, was exhibited in 1936. This was made possible by Alfred Steiglitz, who was a master photographer known as "a discoverer of genius." The exhibition was at Steiglitz's New York City Gallery, an American Place. This exhibition made Ansel the first young photographer to be shown by Steiglitz since 1917 with Paul Strand. In 1940 Ansel directed the first show of photography that ...
- 13079: Aristotle
- ... of), and his Politics (also incomplete). Because of the influence of his father's medical profession, Aristotle's philosophy was mainly stressed on biology, the opposite of Plato's emphasis on mathematics. Aristotle regarded the world as "made up of individuals (substances) occurring in fixed natural kinds (species)" (more confusing quotes, yippey!). He said "each individual has its built-in specific pattern of development and grows toward proper self-realization as ... particular individuals. Science and philosophy must therefore balance, not simply choose between, the claims of empiricism (observation and sense experience) and formalism (rational deduction)." One of the most famous of Aristotle's contributions was a new notion of causality. "Each thing or event," he thought, "has more than one 'reason' that helps to explain what, why, and where it is." Earlier Greek thinkers thought that only one sort of cause can ...
- 13080: Comparison of Shakespeare's Sonnet 73 and Sonnet 116
- ... to sing, but it is a body now going to ruin. In Sonnet 116, love is seen as the North Star, the fixed point of guidance to ships lost upon the endless sea of the world. It is the point of reference and repose in this stormy, troubled world, "an ever-fixed mark That looks on tempests and is never shaken;..." He personifies the coming of the end of his life as night, which is described as "Death's second self" in sonnet 73 ... 73 seems to say that even such a love ends at the grave, though.- "To love that well which thou must leave ere long." Sonnet 116 bears it out even to the end of the world. Either poem offers a vision of love to which we can aspire.
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