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- 5321: Element of God In Poetry
- ... love one another, Blake tells us the same. "This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. John 15:12 This is Blake's message to the oppressors of this world! Yet, in the same short poem, Blake has a message for the oppressed: the young chimney sweeper child will still have hope in the words of Jesus. That is the hope that God will send ... and beautiful statement of faith and appreciation of God's nature and beauty! London 1802, although a poem titled by it's date of birth, is so timeless. Easily, it could be re-titled, "The World Today," for it addresses the problems of men that still exist after almost two-hundred years. It represents a world in decline; a world that has become so ungodly. In the brevity of the poem, we are shown our faults: stagnation, loss of inner happiness, selfish greed, lost manners and virtue. All of these ...
- 5322: Charles Dickens
- ... London.1 Just before he started to toddle, he stepped into the glare of footlights. He never stepped out of it until he died. He was a good man, as men go in the bewildering world of ours, brave, transparent, tender-hearted, and honorable. Dickens was always a little too irritable because he was a little too happy. Like the over-wrought child in society, he was splendidly sociable, and in ... of The Great Men, American Book-Stratford Press, NY., 1942 pg.19 2. Ibid, pg. 21-22 3. Johnson, Edgar, His Tragedy and Triumph. Rev. ed. Viking, 1977, pg. 20 4. Ibid, pg. 27 5. World Book Encyclopedia, Random House, NY., 1990 pg. 193 6. G. K. Chesterton, Charles Dickens The Last of the Great Men, American Book-Stratford Press, NY., 1942 pg. 50 7. World Book Encyclopedia, Random House, NY., 1990 pg. 193 8. Johnson, Edgar, His Tragedy and Triumph. Rev. ed. Viking, 1977, pg. 53 9. G. K. Chesterton, Charles Dickens The Last of the Great Men, American ...
- 5323: Poem "Lucifer in the Starlight": New Meanings and Ideas
- ... of Lucifer as the enemy. At first it may seem as Lucifer has risen to the Earth, but it is further clarified that he has elevated himself above the "rolling ball". However, god imagined the world as planar, with heaven on a higher plane, and hell on a lower plane, not spherical as defined here. From his place in the stars above earth, Lucifer looks down through the clouds, and observes ... Here Meredith shows how much hubris the devil really has, for the reader can just see Lucifer savoring over the masses entering his vile domain. Then, Lucifer peers at the most extreme places in the world, describing the sands of Africa. The Sahara desert with its barren, endless, undeveloped sand can seem like hell to anybody. Satan identifies and likes it, cherishes it, for it is like his home. Then Meredith ... peering at the "black planet." Whether this phrase stands for the darkness of night, or the darkness he has brought by rising is unclear. After inspecting the most inhospitable areas, Lucifer peers at the developed world. It reminds him of the same "Awe", or heaven, which he was banished from. Unlike the Arctic and the Sahara, the technological countries with quality of life appeal to him, much like heaven. Lucifer ...
- 5324: Gullivers Travels 3
- The Evolution of Gulliver In Jonathan Swift s Gulliver s Travels, the main character, Gulliver, embarks on numerous journeys bringing him to strange lands and affecting his views of the world around him. His response to each voyage differ as do his ideas and reactions to the environment in which he is residing. Gulliver begins his expeditions with a very social and open behavior while possessing ... An anti-social behavior is then exhibited near the end of the last voyage, after he leaves the country of the Houyhnhnms, because of his new found disgust and hatred for the rest of the world especially the Yahoos. This is evident almost immediately when Gulliver first encounters natives on the new island. Unlike previous encounters with new people, he made what haste [he] could to the shore to quickly retreat ... answering of the captain s questions and then he tries to sneak off the ship to get away from civilization because he would much rather be alone than be amongst the uncivilized Yahoos in a world with the complexities and weaknesses of human society. Gulliver goes from being an amiable human being to one who is completely anti-social. After looking at his characteristics and examples there of, one should ...
- 5325: The British Renaissance Produced Many Types of Literature and Was Influenced By Shakespeare, Marlow, and Spenser
- The British Renaissance Produced Many Types of Literature and Was Influenced By Shakespeare, Marlow, and Spenser The British Renaissance produced many types of literature for the world to see. Shakespeare, Spenser, and Marlowe all contributed to the shaping of the time period. Christopher Marlowe's "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" portrays one of the typical love poems that can be seen ... love should be attained. Love should be attained by use of the heart. This theory is the premise of Christopher Marlowe's "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love." The Shepherd in his poem offers the world to his Love and everything with it. He is an old man and hopes to win the girl's heart. Notice the word hopes.' If these delights thy mind may move, Then live with me ... of year associated with love and light-heartedness. The allusions to these things also demonstrates the Shepherd's hollow sense of hope. The Shepherd tries to lure the girl by offering her everything in the world. This materialism clearly shows that Marlowe believes that only fancy trinkets and beautiful possessions will win the heart of a girl. In virtually every stanza, there is a reference to a nicety that the ...
- 5326: Chuck Yeager
- ... in pilot school because he had excellent vision, 20/10, and learned how to dogfight, that is getting in position to shoot down another plane and avoiding getting shot down yourself. He left for the War in 1942. He was disappointed at first because after 6 missions, they hadnt seen one German. Yet, on his 7th mission the Americans encountered German planes while escorting a bomber. Yeager killed one and ... not fire a shot, a plane rammed into another). All German planes were shot down and only half of the American planes were shot down. He went on to shooting down 7 more during the war, and was promoted to Captain. After the war, he started working at a test pilot base in California. After a while Major Boyd asked if he wanted to become a test pilot being that he was such a good combat pilot. He ...
- 5327: A Critical Analysis of the Poem Entitled "Tract" by William Carlos Williams
- ... Tract" by William Carlos Williams Tract By William Carlos Williams I will teach you my townspeople how to perform a funeral for you have it over a troop of artists- unless one should scour the world- you have the ground sense necessary. See! the hearse leads. I begin with a design for a hearse. For Christ's sake not black- nor white either-and not polished! Let it be weathered-like ... for everything. Funerals are logically one of the times where grieving or weeping is appropriate. It shows love for the person who has died. It shows that there will now be a void in the world, a void that a living person once filled. And, it is healthy to grieve. It accomplishes nothing, for the dead or the living, to hide one's grief. When examining the theory that WCW is ... weathered, "like a farm wagon--" it could be a comment on using the common elements of life to create a poem. This would follow WCW's philosophy that poetry resides in the natural and physical world. It is the artist's job to find it and interpret it, not to create a false design that doesn't exist. When WCW refers to, "Knock the glass out!" and asks what purpose ...
- 5328: The Power And The Glory
- ... the eternal damnation he will face in the afterlife. The physical and cultural settings in The Power and Glory guide the reader through an odyssey of one man's struggle to find meaning in the world, as it parallels the priest's internal perspective, and symbolizes his redemptive conversion and his final unconscious achievement of martyrdom. Ater the Mexican Revolution, the Mexican government established anti-Catholic laws against the churches. The ... merciful God. There are mystics who are said to have experienced God directly. He was a mystic, too, and what he had experienced was vacancy- a complete certainty in the existence of a dying, cooling world, of human beings who had evolved from animals for no pupose at all. p. 24 As the priest becomes more humble from self-awareness, he becomes less self-centered and begins to regret his careless ... his bastard child from his old town. The priest begins to understand that, " one must love every soul as if it were one's own child. The passion to protect must extend itself over a world." (p.82) When he finally sees his daughter, he has a revelation about the interconnected essence of God in its connection with love and human nature. 'Oh God, help her. Damn me, I deserve ...
- 5329: God Speaks Through The Mouths Of Poets
- ... love one another, Blake tells us the same. "This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. John 15:12 This is Blake's message to the oppressors of this world! Yet, in the same short poem, Blake has a message for the oppressed: the young chimney sweeper child will still have hope in the words of Jesus. That is the hope that God will send ... and beautiful statement of faith and appreciation of God's nature and beauty! London 1802, although a poem titled by it's date of birth, is so timeless. Easily, it could be re-titled, "The World Today," for it addresses the problems of men that still exist after almost two-hundred years. It represents a world in decline; a world that has become so ungodly. In the brevity of the poem, we are shown our faults: stagnation, loss of inner happiness, selfish greed, lost manners and virtue. All of these ...
- 5330: The Great Gatsby As A Metaphor
- ... of it at the end. The dream both Gatsby and America had, was so unutterable that to a certain extent it was necessarily corruptible. They paid the price for trying to live in a dream World too long. They lost touch with reality, the old warm world, and created a new World, a world of dreams. This made them vulnerable, since if the dream was finished with, the world will be over. The simple clichι "The party was over" signifies a level of prophetic vision in ...
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