...Literature can be shared written works and stories created by different authors from different time periods. There are many different styles of literature and many different authors who write literature. Literature can be stories, poems, or many other things. The imagination in literature is the human power that shapes artistic expression; it enables a writer’s work to become an expression of meaning in our world, and allows readers to engage in identifying with what the writer’s work has to say about things that matter. (Clugston 2010). Literature helps the reader escape into a world where their imaginations are able to run wild; you can be who you want to be, because literature becomes your secret world of reality. Day Dreaming allows us to follow all sorts of paths and free to generate all sorts of images, feelings, and thoughts. Our daily way of being typically requires us to be quite focused, and goal oriented. Using a reader-response approach, in this paper you will connect with literature, you will find a personal link or imaginative entry in this story. The literary work of James Thurber: The Secret Life of Walter Mitty will show you how an ordinary man escapes his anonymous life by disappearing into a world of imagination filled with heroism, romance and action. Walter Mitty will embark on a global journey that turns into an adventure more extraordinary than anything he could have ever imagined. . James Thurber wrote a short story about an imaginary character who is caught up...
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...Threshold experiences in the novels My Antonia and The Age of Innocence In any a piece of literature setting is an essential pillar of narrative construction: it not only includes some factual information about time and place or provides the background in which the events take place, but also has the power to shape the habits and attitudes of their users, or characters. Both Willa Cather in My Antonia and Edith Wharton in The Age of Innocence create the particular narrative texture that implicates some dynamics, i.e. some shifts and changes – on the one hand, the setting of the novels continually changes, and this invariably entails the changing of the characters. Since the setting doesn’t remain static, each time it changes there should be some “turning point”, from which moment on the further development of events becomes completely different. But what exactly this turning point is, what are those “triggers” that help to create this dynamic picture, how can we trace the changes and the molding and development of characters’ personalities, the changes of their identities? The thing is that the authors of both above-mentioned novels create series of “threshold experiences” taking place at the most significant, climatic points in the lives of the protagonists, acting like triggers, indicating some transformations in the outer world of the characters that entail the changes in their inner world as well. These thresholds operate on all levels: separating the interior...
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...174, 194-95). Still concerned in 1815, he attached a note to the poem in his first Collected Works. "The subject of these stanzas," he asserted, "is rather an elementary feeling and simple impression [...] upon the imaginative faculty, than an exertion of it" (qtd. in Stillinger 539). Some critics have basically followed Wordsworth's lead: To Jack Stillinger the mental experience embodied by the poem is simple and ordinary (544), and to John Milstead the first three stanzas exemplify merely "a physical stimulus-and-response mechanism" through which the poet remains "passive" . Nevertheless, in the preface to the 1815 collection Wordsworth not only argues that the imagination is ruled by "sublime consciousness" (Stillinger 486), but he also places "I Wandered" among poems categorized by "Imagination." Indeed, many critics ignore Wordsworth's comments on the poem and instead read it as representing a moment in nature of spiritual insight that recurs during a later imaginative re-creation (Joplin 68-69, Stallknecht 81-82, Hartman 5). More precisely, though, "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" dramatizes an experience of the sublime in its first three stanzas, which the poet recollects and re-experiences as a "spot of time" in the last stanza. Like other sublime passages in The Prelude and "Tintern Abbey," this one draws on Edmund Burke's as well as Wordsworth's ideas of the sublime. Burke's thoughts in his Philosophical Enquiry are especially recalled in the lines that...
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...All of us have some ambition or the other in life. Such a man has naturally a purpose in life and is always enthusiastic and makes sustained efforts to realise his ambition. He strives hard till he attains what he wishes. Nothing can deter him from the path he treads. But Ambition should be within one's reach. There is no fun for crying for the moon. My ambition is to be a great painter. My teachers have always appreciated my paintings and encouraged me to paint. I have painted various subjects varying from nature to portraits. My paintings have always found a place in our school exhibitions. My imagination is sharp and sense of colours good. This and my vivid imagination have made me a good painter. I have been practicing painting for a long time now and I realize that the more I paint, the better I get it. I know that I can bring a lot of joy to the people who view my paintings. I wish to have my paintings exhibited at various exhibitions and art galleries abroad. A painter creates an imaginary world for himself. I too can create such a world where I can feel comfortable and happy. It is my escape from the mundane reality that I face everyday. It will greatly satisfy my aesthetic sensibility to continue to paint. I hope to evolve my own style of paintings and set an example for the coming generations of painters. As a painter I can express my feelings on the canvas. I can project my sensibility about certain subjects I paint. I want to be a painter with a difference. My...
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...and figurative language to aid in showing how our mind becomes one with a scene upon seeing it. While Stevens’ poem is masterfully painted with imagery, it is ultimately the meaning of the poem that is so very rewarding and that makes it so great. The speaker describes snow covered trees as the sun glitters off of the top of the distant snow covered banks, while the wind blows and creates a sound that gives the reader a miserable feeling. The speaker talks about how winter is a cold and miserable time and it takes a special type of mind to see past that. The speaker has two realities in his hands- the cold and harsh reality of winter and what the speaker creates using his own perspective. What all of this really means is that using imagination, a whole new perspective can be created allowing the reader to hide the harsh, bare reality that the world really is. Stevens’ uses this to demonstrate that the central viewpoint of this poem lies in perspective. When reading the poem the reader comes to the realization that there is no snowman in the poem. Well, how could this be? That is because the title of “The Snow Man” is a metaphor. At the first glimpse of “The Snow Man”, it does not give much away. The only thing that can be deduced from the title is that it is going to be about the winter. But how might that come into play? It cannot be proven that the snow man in the title has a mind of winter, but of anyone who might, the snow man would be a likely candidate. If the snow man does have...
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...Literature can be shared written works and stories created by different authors from different time periods. There are many different styles of literature and many different authors who write literature. Literature can be stories, poems, or many other things. The imagination in literature is the human power that shapes artistic expression; it enables a writer’s work to become an expression of meaning in our world, and allows readers to engage in identifying with what the writer’s work has to say about things that matter. (Clugston 2010). Literature helps the reader escape into a world where their imaginations are able to run wild; you can be who you want to be, because literature becomes your secret world of reality. Day Dreaming allows us to follow all sorts of paths and free to generate all sorts of images, feelings, and thoughts. Our daily way of being typically requires us to be quite focused, and goal oriented. Using a reader-response approach, in this paper you will connect with literature, you will find a personal link or imaginative entry in this story. The literary work of James Thurber: The Secret Life of Walter Mitty will show you how an ordinary man escapes his anonymous life by disappearing into a world of imagination filled with heroism, romance and action. Walter Mitty will embark on a global journey that turns into an adventure more extraordinary than anything he could have ever imagined. . James Thurber wrote a short story about an imaginary character who is caught up...
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...Detailed Summary 1 Berkove, Lawrence L. "Fatal Self-Assertion in Kate Chopin's 'The Story of an Hour.'."American Literary Realism 32.2 (Winter 2000): 152-158. Rpt. inTwentieth-Century Literary Criticism. Ed. Janet Witalec. Vol. 127. Detroit: Gale, 2002. Literature Resource Center. Web. 26 Oct. 2013. Berkove explains how Mrs. Mallard is not suffering from the death of her husband, but a unusual amount of self assertion. The article shows how the text gives small and subtle hints showing that the character of Louise is mentally unstable, and that she is not sane Berkove recognizes that Louise “ has realized that self-assertion as the deepest element of her being”, and that she comes to this conclusion not from reflection but from her imagination. Louise begins to feel and recognize this as she is locked in her room fantasizing about her upcoming years that belong only to her. “ In truth, Louise is sick, emotionally as well as physically”, Berkove examines how the text tells reveals this by quoting directly from Chopin,showing how Louise changes in her voice, from objective to imaginative. When Louise talks of her joy she cannot tell is if it is “monstrous” or not. Berkove explains what Chopin in doing, “ is depicting Louise in the early stages of the delusion that is perturbing her precariously unstable health by aggravating her pathological heart condition”. Ultimately Louise is the cause of her own death, she over loads her weak heart. That this obsession with self assertion...
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...The creative process includes four different steps to function correctly. These steps are as follows, Searching for Challenges, Expressing the Problem or Issue, Investigating the Problem or Issue, and Producing Ideas. Each stage has a certain function in the creative process flow. The first stage of the creative process is Searching for Challenges. It is common with creative thinking is where we as people are meeting challenges in and imaginative, original and effective way. We quite offend feel the need for challenges to be completely throughout. These challenges come in all shapes & forms of obvious issues and problems. Let’s say you allow your friend to use your lawnmower every time there grass grew. Then next you witness your friend a few time with someone else in the lawnmower then you saw he was cutting the whole blocks grass with your mower this could create a riff in your friendship. The second stage of the creative process is Expressing the problem or Issue. This stage allows you to look for the best expression of the issue or problem that is currently happening. Take for instance the most helpful ideas to try to solve the problem or issue that you are experiencing. For example you are traveling and your luggage gets lost in the transport. Of course you have money and could buy more clothes but did not set up a rental car, now you are faced with the issue of spending more money than expected due to something beyond your control! What would be your next steps...
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...Technical Writing Homework No. 4 The Abuse of Imagination Imagination is a very powerful and universal weapon - the pen of writers, the brush of painters, and the instrument of musicians. Ultimately, it can be the whole universe within a single person’s mind. The use of imagination is present in all aspects of life and living. It can be applied to the theories being developed by mathematicians, the formulas being discovered by physicists, and the technologies formed by inventors and mechanics alike. Put simply, it is the fuel to the machine that is our brain. Even now, I use my imagination as I a way of expressing my inner ideas and thought patterns. However, imagining too much might not be such a good and productive ordeal. There is a possibility of abusing what our mind is capable of imagining. For example, a person might wake up one day and find him/herself imagining immense rejection or pain coming from those around him/her and s/he might continue feeling this even though it is mostly just made-up by the mind. Often, these cases would lead to the said person developing anxiety or other types of mental conditions. Other results of imagination abuse would be replacing old memories with false one or hallucinating, both of which might be due to some psychological effect or imbalance in the body’s chemicals. Therefore, with the daily utilization of the mind’s capability of imagining, limitations of its usage must also not be forgotten in order to avoid any undesirable outcomes...
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...The mind is a tool like any other skill a player possesses. But it's often the tool most of us neglect to develop. Once the mind is in peace, our performance progresses. I believe I set unreachable standards in my game before this class and become overly disappointed when my performance did not meet those high marks I set, thus resulting in motivational withdrawal. After taking this class I realized why I took up golf the first place, it was for pleasure, and for the physical and mental benefits, and then it will become easier to achieve my goals. One of the biggest interventions with the great results I got was the use of the techniques from this class. Performance enhancement and mental skills training by focusing on the effects of imagination and motivation all contributed to the improvement in my...
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...A teacher drew a dot on the chalkboard and asked a class of college students to identify it. They responded with the obvious: a chalk dot. Same question was asked to a group of kindergartners, and they had come up with numerous examples of what it might be: the top of a telephone pole, a squashed bug, an owl’s eye, a cigar butt, a rotten egg, and so on. Somewhere between childhood and adulthood many of us lose the ability to be creative and search for more than one right answer. Master of ceremony, fellow toastmasters and most welcomed guest, very good evening. Creativity is indispensible for success in today’s competitive word, either it is professional or personal life, or any of the business it is important. Creativity is the ability to generate new ideas or invent something new. Some creative ideas are astonishing and brilliant, while others are just simple, good, practical ideas that no one seems to have thought of yet. So how can we as adults regain and maintain our spirit of creativity? I will take you through three simple ways by which we can be creative, before we go to these tips, look on few examples where simple creativity thinking has helped their business One side PPT attached 1. Take good care of yourself. Good nutrition, a regular exercise plan and taking time to relax are all important to the creative process. When we feel good, our senses heighten, and we can be at our best creatively. Take time for yourself each day. Overscheduling is an enemy...
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...IMAGINARY FRIEND; IS IT A PROBLEM? IMAGINARY FRIEND; IS IT A PROBLEM? It is quite common among children to have imaginary friends, with whom they talk, play, and even fight. It is also usual parental concerns regarding this issue, and the multiple visits to pediatricians, for fear that your child is suffering from some kind of disorder that could affect her future. Children at the age of 2 to 3 years old often begin to develop skills such as imagination, and it is at this stage when they begin to know their imaginary friends, almost establishing a parallel life to theirs. According to many experts, having unreal companions will not bring problems to our kids in their development. Actually, this fictitious world of fairies, princesses, and superheroes helps them grow and develop their emotions and creativity. Through these imaginary friends, children release positive and negative feelings, projecting. for instance, his conflicts with the diaper. The nonexistent relationships can strike up conversations and friendships that may help kids to understand better what´s right and wrong, and can even help them to broaden social skills. For example, children can start sharing their toys or clothes, blaming their fantastic friend for their mistakes ... etc. Parents should not participate in this world, but neither should repress nor reprimand the child for this game because it could create a conflict for the child and can make her to keep her imaginary friends from the...
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...Hour” shows problems and be solved with memory and imagination. ` Basically, memory helps the mother and the Speaker solves their problem. The mother and the speaker face a problem of a walnut tree that is causing a problem to their compound. They were try to decide on what to do with the tree. They thought of cutting the tree and selling it then using d money “to pay off (their) mortgage”. The problem of the tree possibly destroying the house gives them concern too and also blocking the drainage. They both remember the origin off the tree and how dare father teaches them the desire to plant and harvest. They both remember those past memory makes them change their mind about the walnut tree. Likewise, Mrs. Mallard faces a problem which imagination helps to solve. Mrs. Mallard is a woman who has health problem who faces d problem of abandonment and guilt. On hearing the news of her husband’s death, “she (weeps) at once”. A wonderful imagination runs through her mind. She imagines how independent she has become and how she does not have to answer to nobody . She also imagines how free she has become to do whatever pleases her. These thought and imaginations finally makes her happy. Memory and imagination can help solve our problem and bring back happy thoughts...
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...Book is the best friend, a human being can have.This stay with us during the whole life: in babyhood we hear parents read us fairy tales, in our teens we swallow exciting suspense novels page after page and when we become adults we still find gripping books that absorb us. I like to spend my free time reading a good book. I’m fond of reading because it provides a lot of space for imagination: I like to conjure the characters and how they look like, I always try to predict how I would behave if I were in the shoes of this or that character. When I read a book I usually entirely immerse myself into it; I live in this imaginary world and enjoy it. My favorite book, The Alchemist, written by my favorite writer Paulo Coelho, is a beautiful Fable about following your dreams. Santiago is the central character, and as this fable begins the reader sees the world mainly through his point of view. Santiago’s lifestyle as a shepherd has provided him with a lot of freedom. Santiago realizes that dreaming about what you don’t have is what makes life interesting.That’s why he is particularly suited to findin his Personal Legend. And also he realizes that playing it safe is often more threatening to his freedom than taking a risk. At times we see and feel his fear, but along his journey, he learns to listen to his heart and to trust what his heart teaches him. Santiago makes great change from beginning, to the end of his journey. He learns how to stay true to his dreams and to understand the...
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...object which evoke the emotions. Imagination enables the poet to look deep into the heart and soul of things. It is through the imaginative faculty that poet arrives at the general truths basic to human nature. Through the imaginative power, the poet is able to present emotions which he has not directly experienced. But he presents them in such a way that they seem personally experienced. Imagination is always associated with the created power and is a poetic principle. It is a transforming power as it has the ability to change the usual and ordinary in an unusual and uncommon way. Poetry is a modified "image of man and nature”. The poet is able to impart "the glory and freshness of a dream" to ordinary things of nature. He can present in his poetry the light that never was on land and sea. He is able to do so to the creative faculty of imagination. It is thus an active power. Poet is not a passive reflector of images formed from nature. He is a man who not only feels strongly but also thinks long and deeply. He is able to treat absent things as if they are present. Here Canterbury tales present an example of this imaginative power to visualize objects which are not present before poet’s eyes in their concrete forms but he presents them before us that they seem real. 29 pilgrims of Chaucer are his imaginative characters, all their qualities, merits and demerits are his own creations and here his creation is supported by his imagination. Imagination enables the poet to look deep into...
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