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- 2211: John Dryden
- ... opportunity by his father to be educated at Westminster School and at the University of Cambridge. Around 1657 he went to London as a clerk to the chamberlain to the Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell. The death of Cromwell in 1659 inspired Dryden to write his first important poem, Heroic Stanzas. After the Restoration Dryden became a Royalist and celebrated the return of kin Charles II. During the celebration he wrote two ... considered one of his greatest plays and one of the masterpieces of the Restoration tragedy. Throughout his career he wrote several "occasional poems," which celebrated particular events of a public character, a military victory, a death, or a political crisis. What made these poems he wrote special was the fact that they were written not for the self but for the nation. In 1670 he was appointed poet laureate and royal ... he wrote the mock-heroic episode Mac Fecknoe. It is amazing that he did not learn that his best talent was writing formal verse satire until he was at the age of 50. After the death of Charles II and the succession of James II, Dryden and his two sons were converted to Catholicism. He quickly developed many enemies that accused him of opportunism. As a result of he was ...
- 2212: The Art Of War
- The pounding of shells, the mines, the death traps, the massive, blind destruction, the acrid stench of rotting flesh, the communal graves, the charred bodies, and the fear. These are the images of war. War has changed over the centuries from battles of ... talks of his wife and children being his guardian angels. I always cry when I read this poem because it is a sweet and loving poem about this man’s undying love, even after his death. Yet, Meserve still is able to have an underlying fact of the dark truth of war. He writes: When my lonely post I'm walking In some distant grove or glen, O, will not the wand'ring angels Watch their loving father then?… Far thee well, my loving Addie, Ah, the word doth take my breath, No -- my heart is clinging to thee, As the ivy clings in death. Meserve makes his love known for his family, but if you read between the lines, you can hear his pain and anguish of being away from them. He went off to war to fight ...
- 2213: The Joy Luck Club
- ... 2/13/92). The dynamic center of the novel is contained within the four sets of four stories. For example, the four places at the Mah Jong table are thrown out of balance by the death of Jing-Mei Woo's mother, and Jing-Mei must replace her at the table to restore the balance and support the dynamic center which is the ritual of the game itself (Tan, 19, 22). In this same way, the structure of the first section is unstable (due to her mother's death), and Jing-Mei must narrate all four Woo stories in her mother's absence. Confucianism and Taoism were both responses to times of conflict. Confucianism is usually dominant in times of peace, while Taoism is ... pot when his wife died, to the horror of his neighbors. "If I should break down and cry aloud, I should be like one who does not understand destiny [Tao; the relativity of life and death]. Therefore I stopped" (Yutang, 180). A healthy sense of relativity is useful to the Taoist for dealing with life's extremes. Jing-Mei completes the fourth corner of the Club after her mother's ...
- 2214: Analysis of "The Age of Anxiety"
- ... Nelson 120). "Hypothetical man" is exhausted when "His last illusions have lost patience / With the human enterprise" in the seventh age. Malin greets this age with preparedness, but the other characters feel reluctance in greeting death (Nelson 120). The second act of Part II of "The Age of Anxiety", "The Seven Stages," is different from "The Seven Ages" in that the first act is based on experiences and the second act ... life within the house no better than before (Nelson 122). The sixth stage takes place in a "forgotten graveyard." It is observed as a "still / Museum [exhibiting] / The results of life," which could either be death or the life that results from death as the "Flittermice, finches / And flies restore / Their lost milieu" (Nelson 122). The seventh stage begins as each character plunges deep into a dense forest where they are confronted by a vast desert. Here, ...
- 2215: The Accidental Tourist
- ... feels that he cannot rely on others and instead can only trust himself. This is probably due to his mother, who was indecisive, moving apartments and changing the style of their lives. However, Ethan's death would have also added to this distrust of people as a whole and would have made him more defensive than ever. It is understandable, though, that Macon should distrust people, because Ethan's death showed so clearly how evil people are and how you can never judge what another person is about to do. Macon understands that life is a journey and in knowing this treats his entire life ... way Macon is so eager to give away Ethan's posessions after Ethan is killed. In this way, he seems to remain unchanged, as he wanted, but inside, he never really gets over Ethan's death and this could also be attributed to the fact that Macon never properly mourned his death, and instead went on with life as if nothing had ever happened.
- 2216: Elizabethan Food
- ... questioned, but was never charged. Seymour however, after an attempt to kidnap the boy king, was arrested and eventually executed for treason. Elizabeth was reported to have said, upon hearing of the Lord Admiral's death: "Today died a man of much wit, and very little judgment." Reports of the young King's declining health spurred on those who did not want the crown to fall to the Catholic Mary. It ... months, her belly began to swell, but no baby was ever forthcoming. Some modern historians think that she had a large ovarian cyst, and this is also what lead to her failing health and eventual death in November 1558. News of Mary's death on November 17, 1558 reached Elizabeth at Hatfield House. Elizabeth had survived and was finally Queen of England. Queen At Last When Elizabeth took the throne, she was immediately descended upon by suitors. However, ...
- 2217: Tales Of The New Babylon
- ... in a war novel. Passion, in this seven-week conflict, is reserved for killing and self-survival. Even the civilian women have their softness temporarily frozen, as with Sylvine, who lures a spy to his death. The spy is Goliath, her former lover and the father of her child; but fond memories and old loyalties now have no place in her heart. The local guerrillas seize Goliath in her home and after a mock trial bleed him to death, while they all watch. Sylvine’s child watches, too: "Throughout the trial, Sylivine had not stirred. She had simply stood there waiting, her face rigid, her thoughts elsewhere, preoccupied with the obsession, which, for the ... wretched man’s gaze was a last entreaty, the expression of a man who does not want to die. But she felt no trace of womanly pity; at that moment, all she desired was his death…" At times, La Débâcle assumes the weight of a military manual in its dissection of the French defeat. The reasons for the easy Prussian victory had for twenty years been the subject of intense ...
- 2218: The Life and Work of Ronald Dahl
- ... wife to go for long walks along the most beautiful trails in the Welsh countryside, hoping the magnificence of nature would seep through to the brain of the unborn child (Dahl, Boy 18- 19). The death of Harald Dahl when Roald was four had a devastating effect on the boy. Although he was very young, Dahl said that the loss of his father was the end of his happy childhood days (Treglown 5), and that in his adulthood he often searched for a paternal figure to compensate for the deficit of a father in his youth (20). Sofie Dahl, although grief- stricken by the death of her husband, was determined to provide a steady foundation for her children, refusing to relocate from Wales back home to Norway with her parents (Howard 1). She did steep the children in Scandinavian customs ... of his life: formal schooling. The commencement of this "awful process" of the boy's civilization began at Elmtree House, a school located in Llandaff, the small village the Dahls moved to after Harald's death. The institution was Welsh, not English, though; Sofie Dahl felt that she wasn't quite ready yet to move to England with a brood of small children (Howard 1). After a year at Elmtree ...
- 2219: A Rose For Emily
- Miss Emily’s House: A Symbol of Neglect Miss Emily’s House: A Symbol of Neglect “A Rose for Emily,” is the remarkable story of Emily Grierson, whose death and funeral drew the attention of the town. The bizarre outcome is further emphasized throughout by the symbolism of the decaying house, which parallels Miss Emily’s physical deterioration and demonstrates her ultimate mental disintegration ... was first described as a “fallen monument”(177) to suggest her former grandeur and her later ugliness. She was a “monument,” an ideal of past values but fallen because she had shown herself susceptible to death and decay. According Fetterley, “the violence implicit in the desire to see the monument fall”(194). Like the house, she has lost her beauty. A women who once was beautiful, later became obese and bloated ... her father and Miss Emily sitting there. In the picture of a young Emily with her father, she was frail and apparently hungering to participate in the life of the era. After her father’s death, she looked like a girl “resembling to angels in colored churches”(180). Inside and out, both the building and the body in which Miss Emily lives are in a state of deterioration like tarnished ...
- 2220: Special Delivery
- ... lives life with avoidance and carelessness, he chalks up heroin to escape the caves of life in Harlem. The narrator tells many stories from their childhood to the time they are grown up with the death of their parents how they separated which explains why they are distinct. Sonny and his brother are both in deep search for breakout from filth and bareness of Harlem, in their own ways both characters ... behind". They both are desperate to find faded memories that are left behind of their childhood before the pain and misery came to their life. Once for a short while they were happy before the death of their parents, little Gracie, and use of drugs. Harlem is not what it use to be to Sonny and his brother, now they can only see through make believe, and prejudiced view of their ... he was able to fill the loneliness and lack of support for his music from his brother with the use of drugs. His brother neglected him when sonny needed him the most, after their mothers death sonny had no decision making authority to what he was going to do with his life. By forcing Sonny to stay with Isabel's family, he was forced to withdraw and create a world ...
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