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- 691: Christmas History
- ... beautiful Saxon maiden named Rowena presented Prince Vortigen with a bowl of wine while toasting him with the words Waes hael. Over the centuries a great deal of ceremony had developed around the custom of drinking wassail. The bowl is carried into a room with great fanfare, a traditional carol about the drink is sung, and finally, the steaming hot beverage is served. For many years in England, a roasted boar ...
- 692: A Comparison of Islam and Christianity
- ... you." Because the Koran was first revealed to Muhammad in the month of Ramadan, the whole month was set aside as a period of fasting. During each day, from first light to darkness, all eating, drinking, and smoking are forbidden. Those who are ill or on a journey may postpone the fast until a "similar number of days later on," according to the Koran. The second major festival of the Islamic ...
- 693: Brief history of Buddhism
- ... major council supposedly met at Vaisali, one hundred years after the first. The purpose of this council was to answer the ten questionable acts of the monks of the Vajjian Confederacy. The use of money, drinking wine, and other irregularities were among the acts. It was decided that the practices were unlawful. This decision has been found to be the cause of the division of the Buddhists. The accounts of the ...
- 694: The Saginaw Song
- ... scheme is entertaining, the late night waltz between father and son is serious. The poem is told by a boy who remembers waltzing with his father. The first stanza reveals that the father has been drinking and that his breath ‘could make a small boy dizzy.” Imagery is used to describe how the boy interacts with his father. He ‘hangs on like death, ’as the pair romp with such a vengence ...
- 695: Analysis of Plath's "Daddy"
- ... of male power to strip a woman of her sense of self. (Plath was married to her husband for seven years during which he had an affair with another woman.) He has drained her by drinking her blood, or figuratively sucking the life out of her. In line 75, Plath states, "Daddy, you can lie back now," as if to say the damage is done. "There’s a stake in your ...
- 696: The Works of Edwin Robinson and Paul Simon
- ... 30, 31, and 32 by, "...thought, and thought, and thought, and thought about it. Miniver Cheevy born too late. Scratched his head and kept on thinking: Miniver coughed, and called it fate. And kept on drinking." Simon's character remained envious of Richard Cory even after Richard's suicide. This is expressed in lines 21 and 22 as follows: " So my mind is filled with wonder, when the evening headlines read ...
- 697: Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven
- ... himself had a "Raven". His was the guilt of not being able to pay for his wife, Virginia Clemm's, medicine. Now, he could have paid for the medicine, but he had both gambling and drinking problems that proved more important than his wife at the time.I learned a lot about Poe through reading this poem. He uses many literary techniques including alliteration. A perfect example is when Poe is ...
- 698: "The Black Cat" Essay
- ... and with each new twist more doubt is created. Escapism, another key factor in Romanticism, is seen throughout the short story. The main character, who is never specifically identified, is running from his life by drinking alcohol. The alcohol eventually leads to the destruction of the first black cat, Pluto. The man felt the need to escape from Pluto even though the animal was one of his most beloved pets. His ...
- 699: Creating the Melancholic Tone in “The Raven”
- ... of the bewilderment that plagues the narrator and consequently Poe himself; the narrator ponders whether he will see his wife in the afterlife. After Virginnia’s lingering death, Poe tried to relieve his grief by drinking. A parallelism is formed in “The Raven” between the condescending actions of the raven towards the narrator and the taunting of alcohol towards Poe. The raven condescends that Poe will never see his lost love ...
- 700: Analysis of Robinson's "Mr. Flood's Party"
- ... worth of him Until he died. All readers must appreciate the importance of old buddies, even if it is only in memories. Like Mr. Flood, he remembers the times he spent with his pals, while drinking and chatting back and forth. This is a happy moment for Eben that is why he continually replays these occurrences in his imagination. In many of the stanza's in this poem, Mr. Flood is ...
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