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- 13081: Analysis of Keat's "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer" and "On Seeing the Elgin Marbles"
- ... intense love of beauty. The connection between these two poems is not so much in subject, but the feeling of awe. Both these poems show more emotion and amazement in the experience of discovering something new. Keats looked with eyes of wonder at new adventures and expressed them verbally with delicacy and reserve. In the poem On First Looking into Chapman's Homer, the description of his experiences overflows with youth and excitement. But as the poem continues the ... skill, in this poem he expressed the indescribable feelings of wonder . In comparison Keats expresses similarities in his concreteness of description in which all the senses combine to give the total comprehension of an experience (new or old). He writes with an intense delight at the sheer existence of things outside himself, and seems to lose himself in his own mortality and the identification of the object he contemplates. His ...
- 13082: Unbroken
- ... the moon trying to exercise the demons in his mind. Too intelligent, too spiritual for his own peace. A shaman, unstuck in time. A stroke of genius and a slap in the face of this world. Always restless, searching for answers. Impulsive and inspired, writing down his thoughts. Funny stories about Elvis and his followers, the Elvi, or dirty poetry. Painting his visions on sheets that hang from the eaves or ... I say to him are like sour notes played too often. I'm out of tune. He always sings along. Our waltz is better than most, I suppose. We know the steps by heart. The world moves quickly around us and our quiet drunken pace, but we don't care. Our minds move quickly despite this world's petty distractions. It's us and them, and we're the only two sane people left. He makes me nervous, still. His dreams are bigger than both of us. When we speak the ...
- 13083: Ben Franklin
- ... read when he was only five years old. His parents wished that they could send Ben to school, but they were very poor. Once three very important men visited Josiah and told him of a new law which said that children must attend school. Josiah sent Ben to the Boston Latin School because the only expenses were books and fire wood. At the Latin School all the children were expected to ... guests were talking? 7. What accomplishment did Ben do at the age of 5? 8. Why couldn't Ben go to school regularly? 9. How many men came to Josiah to tell him about the new school law? 10. What was the new law? 11. What school did Ben go to, at first? 12. What was his best friend's name? 13. What did people think of Ben when he was supposed to recite a able? 14. ...
- 13084: Bill Clinton
- ... Arkansas. He was named after his father, William Jefferson Blythe II, who had been killed in a car accident just three months before his son's birth. Needing a way to support herself and her new child, Bill Clinton's mother, Virginia Cassidy Blythe, moved to New Orleans, Louisiana, to study nursing. Bill Clinton stayed with his mother's parents in Hope. There his grandparents, Eldrigde and Edith Cassidy, taught him strong values and beliefs such as "equality among all and discrimination to none". This was a lesson Bill never forgot. His mother returned from New Orleans with a nursing degree in 1950, when her son was four year old. Later that same year, she married an automobile salesman named Roger Clinton. When Bill was seven years old, the family ...
- 13085: Subject of War in the Poems of Whitman, Crane, Longfellow, and Sandburg
- ... before us, In long reverberations reach our own." He also indicates that war could be avoided if man would be more caring and try harder to avoid it. ""Were half the power, that fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth bestowed on camps and courts, Given to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals or forts." Crane and Longfellow point out the cruelty of ... years, and passengers ask the conductor: What place is this? Where are we now?" In "Lines for an Interment" one reads, "It's a long time to lie in the earth with your honor: The world, Soldier, the world has been moving on.", and wonders what has been learned or gained. The subject, "War" may raise many questions and feelings, but all the authors noted here found objections to war and reasons to ...
- 13086: Stoutenburg's Reel One: An Analysis
- Stoutenburg's Reel One: An Analysis Everyone loses their perception of reality once in a while, although others live in a dream world all their lives. Adrien Stoutenburg looks into the ideas of what is real and what is fantasy in his poem, Reel One. He explores the idea of how a movie can relate to and affect ... that rush by his face. Every second is a part of him; he can not seem to distinguish between real life and the movies. It seems as though he would rather be in this dream world of action and adventure, than that of his own that may be dull and boring. He describes the movies as, "It was like life, but better" (line 8). In the second body paragraph, he describes ... that can be read over and over and each time one can find another fascinating thing that they missed the time before. Each time one is reading his poem, they are taken deeper into his world. With his use of metaphors he can entice you into thinking he is in one place and really be in another. Although Reel One is only eighteen lines, it describes fully the fascination one ...
- 13087: "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock": Surrealism and T.S. Eliot
- ... inability to be a part of society is personified by this "etherised patient." Like a scene from an apocalyptic film, the streets are dark, dirty and half-deserted, leaving the reader to wonder why the world is as is described by Prufrock. The reader begins the poem on a dark note but is suddenly thrown into a lyrical couplet that presents a glaring juxtaposition of emotions: "In the room the women ... two scenes. Which one represents the reality of Prufrock's life? No sooner than the reader witnesses some cleanliness and civility, does Prufrock take us back to the horror and dream like (nightmare) of the world originally mentioned. The yellow fog which, according to Eliot, is the factory smoke from St. Louis that blew across the Mississippi, is referred as a type of beast, probably a cat. The fog "rubs its ... he is still able to darken it by refusing to succumb to its pleasures and choses (or feels compelled) to return to the dark side: "Till human voices wake us, and we drown." The mundane world draws him back. "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" is not generally described as a surrealistic poem, but if the definition of surrealism combines dreams, the un- or sub-consciousness' and symbolic meaning ...
- 13088: Billie Holiday
- ... his money (W 28). "She became a fast woman. She wanted fast money, fast life" (W 26). Her life did become faster and faster as Billie was brought further down into the truths of the world when Billie became a prostitute. "[Billie] ran errands for a brothel in Philadelphia and in 1927 moved to New York, where for the next three years she earned a living as a prostitute" (E). These aspects of Billie's life molded her attitude towards life in the future, and her future decisions and goals ...
- 13089: 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.
- 13090: Booker T. Washington
- ... but knowledge of agricultural and industrial trades. He felt that the Negro would rise to be an equal in American society through hard work. Washington founded a school on these principles, and it became the world's leader in agricultural and industrial education for the Negro. As the world watched him put his heart and soul into his school, Tuskegee Institute, he gained great respect from both the white and black communities. Many of the country's white leaders agreed with his principals, and ... of Washington's death, 34 years after its founding, the school property included 2,345 acres and 107 buildings, with nearly 200 faculty members and more than 1,500 students. Tuskegee Institute had become the world's leader in agricultural and industrial education for the Negro. Booker's spirit and name live on long after his death. He is remembered and admired for his struggle for the black man. Tuskegee ...
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