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- 2321: "My Papa's Waltz" by Theodor Roethke
- ... beatings, making his father more human. By this dance metaphor the whole routine of the beating is messeged. The drunken father, his breath " Could make a small boy dizzy", yet the boy hangs " on like death". The word death is important, usualy the word death, in love poems, shows truthfullness and undesputable love, as in marrige one promises to love to death, to never leave even if what is left is just a memory - as happens in this poem. ...
- 2322: “The Story of an Hour”: Louise Mallard As A Sympathetic Figure
- “The Story of an Hour”: Louise Mallard As A Sympathetic Figure Kate Chopin’s, “The Story of an Hour” is about a woman who is devastated when she first hears of her husband’s death, but shortly thereafter is filled with happiness. Many readers may think of the main character, Mrs. Louise Mallard, as a cold, unfeeling woman. However, on closer examination one can see just how much of a ... an unsympathetic character. After all she did not always love her husband that is stated by Chopin, “And yet she had loved him sometimes. Often she had not.” Also only minutes after hearing about his death she is happy and looking forward to life which is illustrated by the excerpt, “She breathed a quick prayer that life might be long. It was only yesterday she had thought with a shudder that ... person who loved his wife, since Chopin writes of him having “kind, tender hands” and a “face that had never looked save with love upon her.” And yet Mrs. Mallard seems almost grateful for his death and the chance to be free from her husband and marriage. One can say this is another reason why she should not be considered a sympathetic figure. But in fact those are the few ...
- 2323: Beach Burial - Kenneth Slessor
- ... man.” Each body is buried, ending each sailor’s freedom, like a vampire that is staked through the heart, the driven stake ends the sailors immortality, and the signature confirms the finality of the sailors death; just like a death certificate. Written on the stake is “unknown seaman” the family will never know where their son is buried. The sailors that have died for their country are not given the honourable and noble burial that ... have been described in this poem have been from both sides of the war. The bodies were floating alongside enemies and allies, yet from the beginning of the poem Slessor made them all equal in death. As I pointed out earlier this can be seen in his reference to the dead sailors as convoys; groups of dead men that were travelling together with the same personified feelings and actions. World ...
- 2324: The Works of Poet Carl Sandburg and His Effect on American Poetry
- ... writers who admired them and their works. Many critics feel that there are more differences than similarities in the works of Whitman and Sandburg. Mainly their divergences lie in the poet's attitude toward's death. Whitman welcomes death, while Sandburg has a passion for life. To Sandburg- death is life's end, not it's fulfillment. Death is central to Whitman's work, while Sandburg's vision of life does not include tragedy.(clc 15 469) Sandburg is, like Whitman, called the ...
- 2325: An Economic Intrepration Of Th
- ... were lucky enough to be chosen, you would be sacrificed to the gods. This sacrifice would involve the townspeople directing you towards the middle of a circle and proceeding to throw rocks at you until death. Everybody seems happy with the results of this yearly tradition until they are chosen for the stoning. Before the lottery, people are joking and gathering like it was a party. Once the lucky participant has ... Adams comment of giving up the lottery: This cartoon shows BC trying to conform to the traditional Thanksgiving turkey dinner. The bird is aware of it place in history and is willing to accept its death proudly. BC realizes that he is unable to kill such a noble fowl, so he decides to give up on it and try something else. The ability to change allows these people to become more ... Summers had made the night before with the heavy pencil in the coal-company office in his wife Tessie s hand. She has won the lottery and that black mark will now put her to death (Gwynn 170). Mr. Summers has the qualities of a cult leader. Webster s dictionary defines a cult as: 1. A formal religious veneration 2. A system of religious beliefs and rituals also its body ...
- 2326: Grendel Vs. Beowulf
- ... evokes sympathy toward the hideous monster by making him seem like the victim, while Beowulf portrays him as being the most loathsome of enemies. The reasons behind Grendel s being, his killing, and finally his death make him one of the most controversial and infamous monsters in literature. Grendel is the man-killing monster that Beowulf portrayed him as being, yet he is also the lonely victim of a judgmental world ... that protects him against weapons he is very suspicious of man. Nevertheless, Grendel feels like an almost godlike being that will continue on his killing sprees despite the crafty plans of the men. Grendel s death is the surprising twist of events that end the novel Grendel, and the first climatic point in the poem Beowulf. In Grendel, the monster is severely injured by the warrior, Beowulf, and then retreats to his mere to die. Grendel was seen in this novel as a thinking and feeling individual whose intelligence is equivalent to many of the men. His death was not only from physical wounds but also from the fact that he would never be a man. Grendel was fascinated with the boasting revelry of the men and wanted to be accepted by ...
- 2327: Character Analysis Of Mrs Mall
- Character Analysis of Mrs. Mallard in Kate Chopin s The Story of an Hour Kate Chopin s The Story of an Hour explores a woman s unexpected reaction to her husband s assumed death and reappearance, but actually Chopin offers Mrs. Mallard s bizarre story to reveal problems that are built-in to the marriage. By offering this depiction of a marriage that confuses the woman to the point that she celebrates the death of her kind and loving husband, Chopin challenges her readers to look at their own views of marriage and relationships between men and women. Each readers judgment of Mrs. Mallard and her behavior eventually stems ... is experiencing a monstrous joy as irrelevant, but my father did not think that this was a trivial question. He believes Mrs. Mallard was guilty of a lot of joy, because she selfishly celebrates the death of her husband without ever allowing him a chance to understand her feelings. He believes that Brently Mallard should have been seen as the most victimized character in the story. Mr. Mallard is a ...
- 2328: Analysis of "The Age of Anxiety" by W.H. Auden
- ... 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, ...
- 2329: Blake's "London" and "The Garden of Love"
- ... trying to get in touch with his or her inner feeling. The reader can actually feel the whiplash of feelings this child must have felt when seeing this image of the garden being filled with death. Death is symbolizing the inadequacies of the Church during this time. What is most disturbing is that Blake was a renowned religious man: "Christianity was beautiful to him. . . accepted even more because it satisfied his love of spiritual beauty. . ." (Alexander Gilchrist 13:164). The next line extends the violent imagery of death and decay as the ". . .tomb-stones where flowers should be." The last two lines complete the scene Blake is describing: "Priests in black robes / binding with briars my joys and desires." Pain has invaded ...
- 2330: Gullivers Travels 2
- ... their life by reason to the extreme: For example, they only marry for the strength of the species by using arranged marriages to yield the best offspring. They also lack any consciousness for their own death, something that almost seems animalistic, not noble. Philosophers, poets, artists, and scientists have long held that it is man s consciousness of his death, and his complex feelings toward it, that set him apart from other animals (Feitlowitz). This seems too inhuman, and it appears that it would be impossible to be that intelligent and noble, yet still disregard the importance of death. Overall, however, Gulliver s view of the Houyhnhnm is a perfectionistic vision of how human nature, for the most part, should be ruled by reason. The negative extreme of human nature that Gulliver encounters ...
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