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- 1471: Digging By Seamus Heaney
- ... are not as poor as they used to be so they no longer need turf now that they have enough money to buy coal and to have central heating. So Heaney dedicates his life to writing.Digging is written primarily about what Heaney sees through the window, ‘Under my window…’ So the poem is based on sight. However, the poet uses the other three senses to emphasize what he sees. For ... pen as he is with a gun. The poet is also saying that a gun is ‘snug’. Now for me there is nothing snug about a gun, this could imply that the poet is uncomfortable writing but I don’t think that is the case. I think that it’s more likely that Seamus Heaney feels comfortable around guns. Also since ‘snug’ seems to imply that something has been around for ... I found the poem lacking in a consistant style. However when I looked at the hidden meanings and all the different ways Heaney conveys his feelings. I realized that the poem is obviously a very personal one. He seems to use his poetry to help him remember certain aspects of his past and childhood. He gets the reader to really understand the way of life for him, his Father and ...
- 1472: Kobe Bryant
- ... is tied, 87-87. In the words of De La Soul, stakes is high. Not only because the Jazz are leading the Lakers 3-1 in the Western Conference Semifinals, but because things have gotten personal. It's the little things: a sneaky elbow here, a trip there, the hard stares, the merciless picks. But for now, all that is secondary. The Lakers are in big trouble. A minute earlier, the ... black Range Rover he bought for his older sister, Shaya. No stories of groupies and older girlfriends on the road-his mother screens his calls. He spends most of his time ordering room service and writing rhymes. He's one of the rare young brothers who can flash his million-dollar smile at will without ever seeming like an Uncle Tom. Imagine Grant Hill with flavor-the new-style NBA player ... going down. Most of the team is in the lobby, on their cell phones, ready to hit the beach. No Kobe. I figure he's up in his room, studying game tape, playing video games, writing rhymes. He's got a game tomorrow, why bother him, right? Bad guess. "You should have gone out last night, man," says one Laker source. "We were out at South Beach, watching Gypsies, listening ...
- 1473: Five Against The World - Perl Jam
- ... Hiking, he'd even picked up poison ivy. "He needed to get in the space of his songs," says Ament. "Soon we were back on track." "Pearl Jam" is the band's turf statement, a personal declaration of the importance of music over idolatry. But the burden of Pearl Jam's popularity has fallen most solidly on Vedder, who spent much of his off-season wondering about the effects of being ... have to have volume. You're supposed to play it loud. I would do anything to be around music. You don't even have to pay me." Vedder confesses having some recent more difficulties in writing for Pearl Jam. As Gossard had pointed out earlier, the other band members now call him their spokesperson, and with that comes a certain Eddie ethic. Vedder works hard with manager Kelly Curtis to keep ... San Francisco after a show: "I'm really not in your head, I'm not thinking all your private thoughts." The fan had looked so disappointed. Vedder, in turn, has learned the public effect of writing well about damaged personalities. "I was surprised and a little upset that so many people did relate," says Vedder. "Everyone's f---ed up. Actually, now I understand those religious channels more. Everybody needs ...
- 1474: Imagination
- ... write their story. In Dreams, by Timothy Findley, the main characters, two married psychiatrists named “the doctors Marlo”, have a fairly normal marriage. But they are both dealing with professional cases that are invading their personal lives. Mrs. Marlo specializes in autistic children. One case she is working on is that of a little boy who won’t talk, eat or sleep. She grows attached to this child and thinks of ... narrator be nameless and to tell his story like it was a confession, he tells the reader in detail about how and why he killed his victim, he thinks about the “what if” possibilities of writing a madman. Poe put himself in the proverbial shoes of a madman to write this story, therefore he had to imagine what it would be like to be mad. He concocted the narrator’s compulsive ... a breakdown of the border between imagination and reality. The borders between reality and imagination have been totally reversed in the Wachowski brothers’ film “the Matrix”. The film display the same type of “what if” writing, but applied to the genre of science fiction and explores both the limits of the human mind and the frightening possibilities of what machines may be capable of. The basis for the whole story ...
- 1475: Emily The Fallen Rose
- ... had converted to Christianity, her family was also putting enormous amount of pressure for her to convert. No longer the submissive youngster she would not bend her will on such issues as religion, literature and personal associations. She maintained a correspondence with Rev. Charles Wadsworth over a substantial period of time. Even though she rejected the Church as a entity she never did reject or accept God. Wadsworth appealed to her ... hindered since childhood worsened. In Emily's life the most important things to her were love, religion, individuality and nature. When discussing these themes she followed her lifestyle and broke away from traditional forms of writing and wrote with an intense energy and complexity never seen before and rarely seen today. She was a rarity not only because of her poetry but because she was one of the first female pioneers ... for granted, cannot be grasped by even the greatest so called minds. Emily also saw the frightful part of nature, death was an extension of the natural order. Probably the most prominent theme in her writing is death. She took death in a relatively casual way when compared to the puritan beliefs that surrounded her life. Death to her is just the next logical step to life and compares it ...
- 1476: Kierkegaard And Christianity
- Soren Kierkegaard is said to be one of the "founding fathers" of existentialism. His style of writing, his tone and vocabulary tie him closely to another forerunner of existentialist thought: Fyodor Dostoevsky (although either of them would probably deny this vehemently). However, in the course of his writings, Kierkegaard takes quite a ... promises. At least he's close to making his first decision in the right direction. To begin his search for the method by which to obtain this Christian happiness, Kierkegaard says, one must secure a personal and historical account of what Christianity truly is, for to try and achieve something without first understanding all of its contents would be a oversight. One must immerse himself in the study and comprehension of ... about (not an "eternal happiness" mind you, but at the least a smidgen of felicity). From this concentration on the works of Christianity, Kierkegaard's second theme emerges from the mist... The crux of his writing, the subject of his work first appears here, shadowed in all-abstruse language. His premise is this: In choosing faith we must suspend our reason in order to believe in something higher than reason. ...
- 1477: Flying Home
- "Flying Home": a Living Story. Ralph Waldo Ellison is perhaps one of the most influential African-American writers of the twentieth century. Ellison is best known for writing about such topics as self-awareness, identity, and the racial repression of African-Americans in the United States. His masterpiece, Invisible Man, chronicles the story of a young man striving to find himself in a ... of all concerned with the basic essence of human freedom. In "Flying Home", Ellison creates a provocative statement about the Black situation in the south in the 1940’s that is rich with symbolism and personal experience. Born on March 1, 1914, in Oklahoma, Ellison was raised in an environment that promoted self-fulfillment. His father, who named his son after Ralph Waldo Emerson and hoped to raise him as a ... Ellison was criticized as being an "Uncle Tom", a black man who wants to be fully integrated into white society. The folklore used in the story was also probably common to Ellison. Clearly, Ellison’s personal experience translates into "Flying Home". A meaningful story from a great writer, "Flying Home" ties culture in with folklore in a symbolic, meaningful manner. Ralph Ellison, a distinguished thinker and true voice of the ...
- 1478: For Whom The Bell Tolls
- ... 1920, World War II and the Spanish Civil War in 1937, the setting for For Whom the Bell Tolls. In 1928, Hemingway's father committed suicide. He did not reflect on this event in his writing until the thoughts of Robert Jordan, the main character in For Whom the Bell Tolls, in 1940. The Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) followed the failure of a military rebellion to overthrow Spain's democratically ... s longing to stay alive grows and, aware of this, he tries to make sure that the message he sends to Golz doesn't sound like he wishes the attack to be called off for personal reasons. He entertains the idea that the offensive could be merely a diversionary tactic to draw enemy troops away from another front. If that were the case, then he had little hope that the attack ... 30 we learn that Jordan's father committed suicide- a shameful and cowardly act in Jordan's mind. It is the first time Ernest Hemingway ever reflected on the suicide of his father in his writing. We learn that Maria's father was the mayor of her town and that her mother was not a Republican, but was loyal to her husband. Both were killed by a Falangist firing squad. ...
- 1479: For Whom The Bell Tolls
- ... 1920, World War II and the Spanish Civil War in 1937, the setting for For Whom the Bell Tolls. In 1928, Hemingway's father committed suicide. He did not reflect on this event in his writing until the thoughts of Robert Jordan, the main character in For Whom the Bell Tolls, in 1940. The Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) followed the failure of a military rebellion to overthrow Spain's democratically ... s longing to stay alive grows and, aware of this, he tries to make sure that the message he sends to Golz doesn't sound like he wishes the attack to be called off for personal reasons. He entertains the idea that the offensive could be merely a diversionary tactic to draw enemy troops away from another front. If that were the case, then he had little hope that the attack ... 30 we learn that Jordan's father committed suicide- a shameful and cowardly act in Jordan's mind. It is the first time Ernest Hemingway ever reflected on the suicide of his father in his writing. We learn that Maria's father was the mayor of her town and that her mother was not a Republican, but was loyal to her husband. Both were killed by a Falangist firing squad. ...
- 1480: Heart Of Darkness
- ... died within three years and his father four years later. It was the death of his father that sent Joseph into a fit of melancholy, and it was within this sadness that Joseph turned to writing to ease his grief and carried his pain and suffering into most of his novels. After finishing his education in Krakow, Poland, Joseph went to sea, and from there sailed on and off for the ... that flows throughout many of his novels. Stories such as Lord Jim and Heart of Darkness are based upon true to life experiences that Joseph had while at sea. Another unique aspect of Conrad’s writing, would be the lack of simple romance within all of his novels. This lack of emotional passion is most likely due to a drastic love affair when he was 17 that ended with an attempt ... different attitudes of the various characters that inhabit the novel. Although there are many characters within the story, no character can compare with the emotional battles that the protagonist Marlow faces within himself. From his personal standpoint, we can see and feel the distress that radiates from his body, knowing that it is always easier to give into expectations, than to take a stand for one’s self. As matters ...
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