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- 2651: The Romantics
- ... lot of people have written poetry over the centuries. One era had three groups of writers. The transitional writers, first generation of Romantics, and second generation of Romantics were more different than similar in their writing. All three groups wrote mostly about nature, but the transitional writers, such as William Blake, wrote more in the common language and about innocence. Blake's poem, "The Lamb," shows innocence in three ways. The ... a rhyme scheme of AB AB CC for each one. His was a lyric poem, describing a million dandelions in a field. Wordsworth was terrific at putting words together. All groups took their turn at writing narrative poetry, but among them, a first generation writer, Samuel Coleridge, definitely stands out. His "Rime of the Ancient Mariner" took extreme imagination and skill. Along with the nature described, he portrays "Death and Life ... about the life of a king because lives were another thing the second generation was into. The transitional writers, first generation of Romantics, and second generation of Romantics were more different than similar in their writing. Transitional writers were more interested in common language and innocence in their poems. The first generation of Romantics were into imagination and nature as man's moral guide. The second generation of Romantics loved ...
- 2652: Eudora Welty: Her Life and Her Works
- Eudora Welty: Her Life and Her Works Eudora Welty's writing style and us of theme and setting aided her in becoming one of the greatest writers of all time. Welty credits her family for her success. "Without the love and belief my family gave me ... extending the potential of this genre"(Kramer,329). Miss Welty currently lives in her Jackson home and continues to write. She is an extremely private person and has chosen not to release most of her personal papers or to authorizea biography. She feels that her work should stand alone as the expression of her imagination.
- 2653: Review of Ernest Hemingway and Writings
- Review of Ernest Hemingway and Writings Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American novelest and short-story writer whose writings and personal life exerted a profound influence on American writers of his time and thereafter. Many of his works are regarded as American classics, and some have subsequently been made into motion pictures. A review of Hemingway ... was based upon or expanded from events that he himself had experienced, or at least that which he knew completely, inside and out. Being the perfectionist that he was, Ernest did not feel justified in writing about topics of which he was not comepletely informed. Through his extensive travels in Europe and Africa, as well as other areas, he formed the groundwork for many of his most famed and cherished stories ...
- 2654: Comparing Henry David Thoreau and Herman Melville's Writings
- ... philosophies. In contrast, Thoreau, wrote from an autobiographical standpoint revealing his own internal conflicts with mans struggle against nature. In, Walden - A life in the Woods, Thoreau reveals his mental and spiritual beliefs through a personal journey in which he strives to become in tune with n ature, working not to be victorious over these universal forces, but rather to participate in harmony with nature, in tern exposing love and truth ... a day!… "Aye, aye! And I'll chase him normal Good Hope, and round the Horn, and round the Norway Maelstrom, and round perdition's flames before I give him up". Henry David Thoreau when writing about his experiences at Walden Pond indicated that mankind cannot be persuaded by the materialism of the world and must aspire to the highest goals of truth, virtue and independence for his existence. Thoreau would ...
- 2655: Social Criticism in Literature
- Social Criticism in Literature Many authors receive their inspiration for writing their literature from outside sources. The idea for a story could come from family, personal experiences, history, or even their own creativity. For authors that choose to write a book based on historical events, the inspiration might come from their particular viewpoint on the event that they want to dramatize ...
- 2656: The Theory of Property
- ... importance, or unimportance, of individual property. In the Status of Savagery, the first of the periods, property basically took the form of rude weapons, fabrics utensils, apparel, implements of flint, stone, bone, and other various personal ornaments. Due to the fact, though, that these objects were relatively uncomplicated and crude, there was not much "passion for possession." In other words, people did not need to own. Land was owned by the ... gen and does not allow anyone from remote gens to inherit. The Lower Barbaric, the Middle Barbaric, and the Upper Barbaric sub- periods comprise the second ethnical period. In the Lower Barbaric period belts, picture writing, stockades for village defense, shields, war clubs, air guns for shooting, the mortar and pestle and pipes were invented. These objects were more intricate and specialized than those found in the Savage period and the ...
- 2657: Trouble With Bill Clinton's Character
- ... are ineffective in convincing voters. In my opinion, I think that Stengel is correct in saying that the reason why Dole's attacks are not working is voters are not concerned with the President's personal shortcomings, but rather his capability of running the country, and the two are not always closely related. I think that Bob Dole is going about the whole issue all wrong, and his tactics are not ... insulting his character, but in doing so, Dole is revealing a lot about his own. Take for instance the issue of Clinton and his playful attitude regarding his use of drugs. Dole is using a personal attack on Bill Clinton to make the constituents think that Clinton is a drug user saying that he used drugs during the '70s. I think the real issue here is not Bill Clinton's problem ... America. I agree with Stengel's belief that this is the way a majority of the voters feel about Clinton. The lack of conviction that Dole claims is Clinton's character flaw is actually his personal strength. Voters see his being indecisive as "still searching for the answer." Instead of clinging to the same traditional values and principles, Clinton is flexible and can adapt to new concepts and vary along ...
- 2658: Emily Dickinson: Transcendentalist Experience Through Imagination
- ... of all their writings. “To get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the whole world” was their goal behind all their writings. They did not use their power of writing in order to gain a transcendentalist experience, but rather to record them. Both Emerson and Thoreau chose to contact their true natural surroundings, and experience time alone in the “woods”. By being “in solitude”, it ... Emily Dickinson proved that transcendentalism can be achieved with out the element of experience, but rather just using imagination and the power of intellect to accomplish her goals. She used many transcendentalist ideas in her writing, but all mostly to show the power of intellect; a women's intellect. Dickinson, ironically surrounded by her societies stereotype of her natural surroundings, “Discarded of the Housewife” , and showed male transcendentalists that she could ... her, was the corners of the ceiling of her house. How ever, with the power of imagination behind her, Dickinson could transcend to anywhere she wanted, and she experienced anything she wanted. Dickinson used her writing, and “solitude” from society, to enable her to “Soul selects her own Society” . “The Brain is just weight of God” , her own brain and her own soul, and of coarse, her own god; “Mine” . ...
- 2659: Analysis of Three of Hawthorne's Works: Solitude and Isolation
- ... his mother and sisters would "take their meals in their rooms, and my mother has eaten alone ever since my father's death" (Martin 10). Naturally, Hawthorne's mother's isolated life contributed to his personal solitude and to his stories of solitude. Although he never reached the point she did, his life too became one of separation and loneliness. When he was nine, a severe foot injury reduced his physical ... scarcely see her in three months" (Martin 10). He quickly picked up her lonely habits. As a child, he was often separated from others. During the solitary years, he devoted all of his time to writing using only the most isolated and solitude characters. "[Hawthorne's] men and women are no egotists to whom isolation is a delight; they suffer from it, they try in vain to come out of the ...
- 2660: The Development of Desire
- ... ships, and wealth from Troy and the gods. With all the losses he sustains over the long journey he is unmoved, for his only passion is to return home. Odysseus's biggest attribute is his personal control of emotions and events. He has many emotions throughout the story, but always exhibits control in thinking and actions. Look at the careful planning and patience when waiting for the time to kill all ... is over, so to than will his life perish, for his life was nothing without her there. Yet, the passion he displays is nothing short of amazing, to love so strongly to risk his own personal beliefs for that love. The last complex piece to the puzzle of the warrior, not just personal sacrifice in time, or your life, but the ideals and beliefs one holds discarded for the desire to reach what he wants. Evolution, over time, has shaped the ideas and beliefs on what the ...
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