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- 2661: New England: A Matter of Perspective
- ... A Matter of Perspective John Smith's A Description of New England and William Bradford's Of Plymouth Plantation both present a picture of the same pre-colonial land of New England. Mr. Smith's writing, out of necessity, painted a rosy picture of the new land, while Bradford's historical account shows early New England was not Heaven on Earth. Mr. Bradford and Mr. Smith are writing about one land, but they present two different accounts of the life in the land. John Smith's writing is his ideal vision of what the new land could be with the best of people colonizing the new land. John Smith's fine piece of literature may also be considered a beautifully worded, ...
- 2662: Mastering The Short Story
- Mastering The Short Story Although I perceive Paul Darcy Boles to be an uppity, egotistic, and somewhat euphorically rambling old man from his style of writing, there is some beneficial information for someone wishing to create a commercially viable short story. However, I feel that creating a story with the goal of marketability is a grave mistake that ruins countless numbers of otherwise perfectly enjoyable works of literature. It is no surprise that this style of writing is being taught to the new generation, which promises to be far more creative than it's predecessors. Boles' first advice is to follow Chekhov's observation: "The art of writing is the art of abbreviation." A story of 3000 words or less has no need for excessive 1 paragraph descriptions. "Today's reader" (whoever that is) has no need for the descriptive style found ...
- 2663: The Masculine Dismissal of a Women's Quest in The Odyssey, A Room Of One's Own, and Northanger Abbey
- ... the golden age when women will have what "...so long has been denied to them - leisure and money, and a room to themselves" (27). Moreover, Woolf praises and admires Jane Austen, for her gift of writing and her circumstances match eachother completely. But in particularly, if Jane Austen suffered in any way, Woolf suggests that "...it was the narrowness of life that was imposed upon her. It was impossible for a ... all that criticism, in the midst of that purely patriarchal society, to hold fast to the thing as she saw it without shrinking"(75). Jane did endure and shattered all the criticism that undermined her writing. She looked at her judges and laughed at them, and continued to write. Austen understood that it is only in the novel "...in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the ... must struggle for their role as outsiders. Their final source, one that has shaped future generations, is to controvert the social myths embedded among society , and to escape the life in a marginal province by writing literature and letting the truth be known. These stories, like all good stories, are more than just sharing an experience. Each one touches the audience, creating tiny epiphanies for the reader. The Odyssey, A ...
- 2664: Edgar Allen Poe's Symbolism of Death in "The Fall of the House of Usher"
- ... Usher" Death is defined as, "The termination or extinction of something" (American Heritage Dictionary). Edgar Allen Poe uses this description in "The Fall of the House of Usher" in different ways. Poe's intention when writing "The Fall of the House of Usher" was not to present a moral, lesson, or truth to the reader; he was simply trying to bring forth a sense of terror to the reader. Poe's ... the Gothic category. "It is usually admired for its atmosphere' and for its exquisitely artificial manipulation of Gothic claptrap and decor"(Abel, 380). Bringing forth the symbolism of death is a major part of this writing. All of the characters in "The Fall of the House of Usher" are linked to death; by physical objects or by other people. "There are no symbols of absolute good" (Abel, 382). The physical aspect ... 4). These statements are contradictory to each other. He believed "both sides of the story". Poe may not have realized that he was using some symbolism in "The Fall of the House of Usher" when writing it. The expressions, in this story, were usually not used by other writers. His viewpoint of life was unique compared to the Romantic writers of the century. Most ideas that he wrote about were ...
- 2665: Alex's Analysis of Any Abject Abuse
- ... choice of form purposefully geared toward the smooth, natural rhythm of the heroic couplet. The caesura, the end-stopped lines, and the perfect rhymes lend the exact amount of manners and gaiety to his work. Writing for a society that values appearances and social frivolities, he uses these various modes of behavior to call attention to the behavior itself. Pope compares and contrasts. He places significant life factors (i.e., survival ... class English slang, as in "If to her sharesome female errors fall,/ Look on her face, and you'll forget 'em all" (ii, 17- 18). This shows that just because the subject of Pope's writing is mere frivolity, it should not be concluded that the writing itself is whimsical. Pope can brag that he wrote his timeless epic merely about two quarreling Catholic families and a lock of hair, whereas Milton had Satan, God, Eve, Adam, and the entire creation ...
- 2666: 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 ...
- 2667: The Writings of Plato and Dantes
- ... poetry, that "if the tragic poet is an imitator, he too is thrice removed from the king and from the truth"(Plato 23). Here is the crux of the argument. Plato considers the art of writing to be a mimetic one, that is, as we have said, it is but a mimicry of the real world. Now what one must ask is, is literature really an imitation of the world? Plato ... referring to. For to Plato the purest form of discourse is reasoned discourse. Yet Platowho wrote many things was also guilty of using the tools of the poet: In the dialogues, Platon's [Plato's] writing style possesses infinite variety and a great command of Greek prose, perhaps the greatest command from antiquity. His language is often tinged with poetry; packed with metaphors (especially from music). His writing is also manneristic, fluid, interlaced, and full of assonance(Planeaux, n.p.). Fascinating indeed that Plato, so very devout to pure logical discourse and so very scornful of emotional response, should use those tools ...
- 2668: The Only Truth Existing
- ... should conclude that our existence is a truth, and may be the only truth, that we should find its certainty. From the "natural" experiences of our being, we hold beliefs that we find are our personal truths. From these experiences, we have learned to understand life with reason and logic; we have established our idea of reality; and we believe that true perceptions are what we sense and see. But it is our sense of reason and logic, our idea of reality, and our perceptions, that may likely to be very wrong. Subjectiveness, or personal belief, is almost always, liable for self-contradiction. Besides the established truth that we exist, there are no other truths that are certain, for the fact that subjective truth may be easily refuted. Every person ... the existence for its use. Our experiences from our "natural" existence gives us a bias of all that is true, which is self-contradicting. The ideas and objects that we encounter are determined true by personal evaluation in the relationships of those ideas and objects in connection with our being. The relationship of the ideas and objects in connection with another person's life may be contradicting to my own ...
- 2669: Robert Frost and Ralph Waldo Emerson: Similarities in Nature
- ... essay "Frost and Emerson: Voice and Vision" he writes "There is nothing about Frost's Conception of the role of a poet that is close to Emerson's."(Ryan126) Emerson and Frost both had different writing styles, as again described in Alvan S. Ryan's essay Frost and Emerson: Voice and Vision he says " Whereas Emerson prefers to be suggestive, to develop a few images or a series of briefly sketched ... it is seen that Emerson believed nature was a force everything was connected through. By understanding nature one can understand his own spirit. Thus Emerson believed nature helped to clarify the supernatural. Seemingly Emerson believed writing about nature brought him closer to nature thus bring him closer to his own spirit. Frost does not go as deep as Emerson in that he did not believe that nature helped to clarify the ... it is the height of all poetry, the height of all thinking"(Frost78) From this quote it is seen that Frost also believed like Emerson that the spirit and nature were connected and that by writing poetry it helped to connect him to his spirit. Frost and Emerson both had similar attitudes toward nature. Frost believed nature to have an evil side. In Roberts W. French's essay "Robert Frost ...
- 2670: Victorian Literature
- ... early Victorian writers held to a moral aesthetic, a belief that literature should provide both an understanding of and fresh values for a new society. Novelists of the period explored the difficulty of forming a personal identity in a world in which traditional social structures appeared to be dissolving. With compassionate realism, George ELIOT, in such works as ADAM BEDE, described the slow dissolution of a rural community. The many powerful ... role of secular prophets, often expressing a longing for the free play of imaginative life. For Alfred, Lord TENNYSON, the longing found ambivalent expression in his early lyrics; his major work, In Memoriam (1850), translated personal grief into an affirmation of religious faith. Matthew ARNOLD, particularly in his poem Empedocles on Etna (1852), revealed how the spirit of his own age weakened emotional vitality. Although concerned with presenting his personal form of religious faith, Robert BROWNING used his dramatic monologues primarily to show the uniqueness of the individual personality. By the 1870s, opposing what they now perceived as a repressive public morality, writers increasingly ...
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