...de Guzman, Francesco Maria C. Humanities I – TFD2 2012-41947 Prof. Morales The Dead Man Walking They hail me as one living, But don't they know That I have died of late years, Untombed although? I am but a shape that stands here, A pulseless mould, A pale past picture, screening Ashes gone cold. Not at a minute's warning, Not in a loud hour, For me ceased Time's enchantments In hall and bower. There was no tragic transit, No catch of breath, When silent seasons inched me On to this death ... -- A Troubadour-youth I rambled With Life for lyre, The beats of being raging In me like fire. But when I practised eyeing The goal of men, It iced me, and I perished A little then. When passed my friend, my kinsfolk, Through the Last Door, And left me standing bleakly, I died yet more; The Dead Man Walking They hail me as one living, But don't they know That I have died of late years, Untombed although? I am but a shape that stands here, A pulseless mould, A pale past picture, screening Ashes gone cold. Not at a minute's warning, Not in a loud hour, For me ceased Time's enchantments In hall and bower. There was no tragic transit, No catch of breath, When silent seasons inched me On to this death ... -- A Troubadour-youth I rambled With Life for lyre, The beats of being raging In me like fire. But when I practised eyeing The goal of men, It iced me, and I perished A little then. When passed my friend...
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...movie Dead Poets Society is a very good example of a similar story. The stories take place in different times and have totally different characters, but they have many plot points which make them very similar. How would 2 forbidden lovers from the Renaissance compare to adolescent boys attending a prep school? Although Romeo and Juliet and Dead Poets Society have a seemingly unrelated plot, there are actually many similarities to them in the form of love, relationships, and tragedy. The first comparison between the movie and the play would be through love. Romeo and Juliet’s...
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...a lady wonderful Spring forth between her lips, one whom no sense Can fully tell the mind of,and one whence Another, in beauty, springeth marvelous, From whom a star goes forth and speaketh thus: 'Now my salvation is gone forth from thee. 2. Epic - is a lengthy narrative poem, ordinarily concerning a serious subject containing details of heroic deeds and events significant to a culture or nation. Crooked Spines by Kevin Robey Useless waste of space These tainted dreams of mine Burning in this place These crooked spines of mine I used my sleeve for make believe Wore it proud to show you how Deceive your mind so you can see These broken dreams I’m breathing now Believe me please I’m so strung out Replay these words when I am gone I want to shout and end this drought Famine of smiles, this is the dawn Sweet release don’t fail me now Take me from this blinding rain Give me resolve only faith allows To hold the reigns of runaway trains Can’t bow down to the blinding force Of my demise down this lonely trail Where self-defeat’s the ending source Of misplaced love sown in my sails Dead end roads are found here every day My troubled mind; a study of extremes Fake a laugh when the skies are grey I’ll close my eyes, and dream another dream 3. Conceit - is a figure of speech in which two vastly different objects are likened together with the help of similes or metaphors. It develops a comparison which is exceedingly unlikely but...
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...story wrestles with the idea that often people become blind by the quest for the “truth”, so mesmerized by its light they also become obliterated of what else may wait beyond that one “truth”. Firstly, this two sided manipulative truth is evident when the dead rise from their cemeteries and start to expose what they actually are like compared to what others portray them as. This event is encrypted when one of the dead rise and write “here reposes Jacques Olivant, who died at the age of fifty-one. He hastened his fathers death by unkindness, as he wished to inherit his fortune, he tortured his wife, tormented his children, deceived his neighbors, robbed everyone he could, and died wretched”(Maupassant 152). This horrifying truth of the dead coming back from the afterlife to prove a point of how the perspectives of there loved ones is incorrect compared to how the dead truly are from the inside, referring to there motives, thoughts, and aspirations they had while they were living. This relates back to how people blind themselves and simply fail to look beyond the horizon just because they know the real “truth” is going to be so much more harsh then their made-up softened version of the “truth”. This event depicts how this dead man did so many heinous deeds that not only deceitful for those around him but, at the end deep down in his heart didn’t let him rest in peace even after death. Going back to the message of the...
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...Read the following articles from Unit 5, jotting down your first impressions of each article to use in the reflections. * Sleeping with Guns by Bruce Holbert * My Daughter Smokes by Alice Walker * A Drunken Ride, A Tragic Aftermath by Theresa Conroy and Christine M. Johnson * Young and Isolated by Jennifer M. Silva Sleeping With Guns By BRUCE HOLBERT THE summer before my sophomore year in high school, I moved into my father’s house. My father had remarried and the only unoccupied bedroom in his house was the gun room. Against one wall was a gun case he had built in high school, and beside it were two empty refrigerators stocked with rifles and hundreds of rounds of ammunition. My bed’s headboard resided against the other wall and, above it, a resigned-looking, marble-eyed, five-point mule deer’s head with a fedora on its antler rack. The room had no windows, so the smell of gun oil filled my senses at least eight hours each day. It clung to my clothes like smoke, and like a smoker’s cigarettes, it became my smell. No one in my high school noticed. We all smelled like something: motorheads of motor oil, farm kids of wheat chaff and cow dung, athletes like footballs and grass, dopers like the other kind of grass. It did not appear to anyone — including me — that residing within my family’s weapons cache might affect my life. Together, my three brothers own at least a dozen weapons and have yet to harm anyone with them. Despite their guns (or, arguably, because...
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...Resolution/denouement- end of a literary work when loose ends are tied up and questions are answered Alliteration – repetition of the initial consonant sounds of words: “Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers” Allusion – a reference to something well-known that exists outside the literary work Antagonist- character that is the source of conflict in a literary work Aside – a dramatic device in which a character makes a short speech intended for the audience but not heard by the other characters on stage Assonance – repetition of vowel sounds followed by different consonant sounds: “Anna’s apples,” “the pond is long gone” Characterization- The manner in which an author develops characters and their personalities Conflict - struggle between two or more opposing forces (person vs. person; nature; society; self; fate/God) Dialogue - direct speech between characters in a literary work Diction - word choice to create a specific effect Figurative Language –language that represents one thing in terms of something dissimilar (non-literal language). Includes simile, metaphor, personification, hyperbole, symbol) Flashback- the method of returning to an earlier point in time for the purpose of making the present clearer Foreshadowing- hint of what is to come in a...
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...Yellow Wallpaper." by Charlotte Perkins Gilman which was written in the year 1892 and "The Story of an Hour." by Katie Chopin which was written in the year 1894. Both stories will be discussed with details in the preceding paragraphs. To look at the stories in comparison one can identify that both of the females lived during the same era. It was a time when women whose husbands had a decent income were expected to be demure and fragile. Women were considered to be delicate creatures that should take to their bed and rest. The husbands controlled the entire destiny of the woman and family. In both stories the women are fragile women who have become psychologically ill due to the pretenses they were expected to demonstrate. The differences were that one woman is living in the city, her husband has gone off to work, she has a heart condition, and she had believes him dead. The husband appears and she dies because her chance at freedom is lost. The woman with the yellow wall paper is in a country house on vacation. She is forced to play sick and is told she must rest by her husband and doctor. As a result she descends into madness believing the wall paper has come alive. The most intense level of comparison between both is the idea of a woman seeking to define her own narrative. The woman in "The Yellow...
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...Sahira Younas In the two sonnets, “Remember” by Christina Rossetti and “The Cross of Snow” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, the authors address death and remembrance indicating similarities when exploring grieving process but also demonstrate its differences through literary techniques. They both utilized symbolism, imagery, and metaphorical language but showed differences in tone. Christina Rossetti and Henry Longfellow utilized symbolism to signify ideas and qualities by giving them symbolic meanings that guides the reader to understand the poem as a whole. In “Remember”, the poet incorporated the volta-the shift. Before line 9, the speaker insisted the beloved remember ought to remember her. Afterward, she changes her mind and says it is better for her beloved to forget her because remembering her will be painful. That shift symbolized the speaker’s love. She would rather sacrifice the only thing keeping her “alive” and metaphorically kill herself, than to ask her lover to hold onto the pain. In “The Cross of Snow” incorporates symbolism in the title. The “cross” is a symbolic meaning before Christians because Jesus died on the cross and “snow” is white which represents purity. Longfellow essentially says that his wife is angelic and pure. Both poets incorporated imagery to means to use figurative language to represent objects, actions and ideas in such a way that it appeals to our physical senses. In Rossetti’s poem, she includes diction such as, “silent” (line 2), and...
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...Compare and Contrast: Buddhism and Christianity Comparative Religions, HUMN 448 Buddhism and Christianity are both popular religions with many followers, and both have had an impact on the history of the world. While these religions have both subtle and drastic differences, they also have similarities of the same manner. To see these similarities, we will compare and contrast three sets of articles. The first is an examination of the early lives of both the Buddha and Jesus. The second set is a comparison of “The Lost Son” parables, and the third set is a comparison of the Buddha’s last words and the interpretation of Jesus’ death in the book of Acts. These examinations of Buddhism and Christianity will help to show just how similar the two religions are, for all their differences. First, we examine and analyze the early lives of the Buddha and Jesus. For the early life of the Buddha—the beginning of his mission—we turn to a story called “The Four Passing Sights.” For the beginning of Jesus’ mission, we read Mark 1:1-13. The Buddha began life as Siddhartha, son of a king. At his naming ceremony, priests foretold that he would grow to be either 1) a world ruler if he followed his father’s footsteps; or 2) a world teacher if he were exposed to the sight of suffering. And so Siddhartha was kept in the palace, surrounded by servants and finery, and was never exposed to the world outside. He asks his father’s permission to go to a nearby park, and his father allows him after...
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...You cannot talk about the development of the vampire hunters without talking about the development of the vampires themselves. Vampires have changed and developed so much since the days of Bram Stoker’s Dracula. They’ve turned from creatures of the night that you feared would turn you into something unspeakable and kill you to something that you long to be. They’re no longer feared but desired. You can’t talk about the development of vampire hunters without speaking of where vampires first started and where they’ve gone now. You start off with Nosferatu and the concept of “vampire hunters” as a book Johnathan Harker finds on his way to Count Dracula’s mansion. He reads it in an inn and ends up taking it with him, after meeting with the Count,...
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...An Exploration of English Euphenism Euphemism 2014/02/13 Wang yusheng Introduction 1.1 The definition of euphemism 1.2 The features of euphemism The relationship among Euphemism, Language and Culture The comparison about English and Chinese Euphemisms Conclusion References Introduction 1.1 The definition of Euphemism Oral communication is one of the important ways to maintain the interpersonal relationship. People usually use some polite words to take the place of the rude ones in order to express idea more easily, make communication go more smoothly and avoid the offensiveness in communication. For this reason, euphemism is created. Euphemism is an ordinary linguistic phenomenon in the culture and plays an vital important role in the oral communication. Euphemism comes from the Greek. “eu” means good, pleasant, and “pheme” means speech. Consequently, euphemism means “to speak with good words or in a pleasant manner” (Neaman and Silver, 1990). 1.2 The features of euphemism 1.2.1 National features There are a lot of different surroundings and social environment in different countries. Whatʼs more different countries have different manners and cultures. Therefore, euphemism in different language has some different features. 1.2.2 Regional features There are different customs in different regions although they speak the same language. For example, in American...
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...running children’s television show) or “Count Chocula” (on the cover of a children’s cereal box). When people hear either the word vampires or Dracula, most of the time people tend to think about the mythical blood sucking race of immortals called vampires and also some people that know a little more than the average person does about vampires may think about several of their stereotypical characteristics such as: they are from a place called Transylvania, they have sharp, pointy teeth to draw blood from the necks of humans, they can not come outside during the day, they sleep in coffins, turn into bats, and they are killed by pure silver, garlic, and several religious artifacts. However, people do not really think about all the connections between the vampires and all of the religious artifacts that are said to kill them. Religion plays a major role in the story of Dracula, because when one looks closely enough to what vampires and Dracula are all about one can see that vampires are basically the antichrist. Without religion the alternative ways of killing a vampire would make them seem almost as though they are regular humans. “Bram Stoker’s Dracula”, which was first published in the year 1897, was not the first story of vampires written in Literature but it most certainly did become the most famous world wide, the idea...
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...Assignment-sk ‘. . . if we admit the existence of a higher or permanent Ego in us -- which Ego must not be confused with what we call the "Higher Self," we can comprehend that what we often regard as dreams, generally accepted as idle fancies, are, in truth, stray pages torn out from the life and experiences of the inner man, and the dim recollection of which at the moment of awakening becomes more or less distorted by our physical memory. The latter catches mechanically a few impressions of the thoughts, facts witnessed, and deeds performed by the inner man during its hours of complete freedom. For our Ego lives its own separate life within its prison of clay whenever it becomes free from the trammels of matter, i.e., during the sleep of the physical man. This Ego it is which is the actor, the real man, the true human self. But the physical man cannot feel or be conscious during dreams; for the personality, the outer man, with its brain and thinking apparatus, are paralyzed more or less completely. -- Transactions of the Blavatsky Lodge, p. 50 Thus,Sleep and death are brothers, according to the old Greek proverb. However, comments G. de Purucker that” they are not merely brothers, born of the same fabric of human consciousness, but are in all verity one, identical. Death is a perfect sleep, with its interim awakenings of a kind, such as in the devachan, and a full human awakening in the succeeding reincarnation. Sleep is an imperfect fulfilment of death, nature's prophecy...
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...SHORT STORY ESSAY Comparison and Contrast between “Young Goodman Brown” and “The Lottery” “Young Goodman Brown” by Nathaniel Hawthorne, and “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson, the two writers uses symbolism, characterization, and conflict to illustrate the hidden dark side of mankind in normal people. The characters in the stories struggle with the conflict between good and evil. To stress the theme of both stories, symbols are applied as a tool for the development of the story. Hawthorne applies objects and names to intensify the theme and Jackson uses names to bring out his theme. Young Goodman Brown sees the conflict with evil and society. The protagonists of this story deals with Satan on a personal level. He lets the evil take over his faith and beliefs, and also realizes some important people in his life can portrait evil. As he says, “My faith is gone!” cried he, after one stupefied moment. “There is no good on earth; and sin is but a name (Hawthorne, 1835). He loses faith in the many people he once looked up to, after witnessing his wife and townspeople perform a sacrifice in the dead of night. The experience distorts his view of good in people, and leaves him feeling uneasy and abandoned. In the Lottery, they also had the conflict of good and evil in society. In an annual lottery, together, friends...
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...The daffodil, like many other flowers, is thought to bring happiness into one's life. Looking at this flower in a more symbolic manner, the daffodil represents the life that Trethewey and her mother has had to endure. Although the daffodil is only mentioned in one poem, many poems throughout Native Guard illustrate how the life of the daffodil is directly related and compared to Natasha Trethewey and her mother. The order in which the poems are mentioned is also significant; they demonstrate the progression stages of the two lives mentioned and the devastation that is brought when a life is lost. At the beginning of the book in the poem “Genus Narcissus” the daffodil is being compared to Trethewey as a child, because they are both in the beginning stages of life. Comparable to the flower Trethewey would be considered a new bloom sprouting in the early spring. “The road I walked home from school was dense with trees and shadows, creek-side, and lit by yellow daffodils, early blossom” (1-3).They are both innocent beings beginning life and Natasha is awaiting the chance to endure the happiness that life has to bring. Both Natasha and the flowers are considered gifts to her mother, therefore she sees herself as being one with the flower, “Childish vanity. I must have seen in them some measure of myself- the slender stems, each blossom a head lifted up” (13-15). Being a young child Natasha did not know that the flowers given to her mother as a small gift would one day represent...
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