The details the author provides to portrait each god gives us details of their deity and also the force/element of nature they represent. The gods that I am discussing in my paper are: Gaia, Ouranos, and
I close my eyes and see frogs and beetles lined in the trenches filled with knee-high water. I can smell the pervasive stench of feces, body odor, and death. I see the maggots, and I feel the cold mud when I close my eyes. I still feel my body itching from the lice outbreak that never got under control because of our tight quarters and unsanitary conditions. I see men begging to have their feet removed, the flesh on their feet rotting away because of the chronic wet conditions in the trenches.
Have you ever done something that you always reflect on and wish you had another chance? Did you hear that little voice inside your head? Many people make choices that they know are wrong but do it any to be considered “cool” to their peers. In the short story “On the Bridge”, Todd Strasser shows the idea that you should not change yourself to be cool because it can turn bad for you. Seth, the protagonist in “On the Bridge” wants to be accepted to his friend Adam, who makes very bad decisions.
The Great Gatsby In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby, the topic of an unreliable narrator arises. Nick Carraway, who is the narrator of this novel, is seen as a biased/unreliable narrator due to his speech when he speaks about Jay Gatsby and also because he is not an omniscient narrator. Because of these decrepencies, it is impossible to see Nick as a reliable narrator. At the beginning of the novel, F. Scott Fitzgerald immediately forms Nick Carraways character. Nick describes himself as being someone who reserves all judgment but, throughout the novel he is constantly relaying his opinion about other people.
The poem starts off with the speaker's very blunt observation, "A toad the power mower caught." Made the poem drastic and unemotional to the death of toad. The lack of sympathy is clearly recognisable as the first stanza continues on the description about the toad's injury and movements. Then as the toad, brings himself to the cineraria leaves, the speaker starts to use symbolism and starts to show some interest. That the toad was surrounded by "heartshaped leaves" and will die in this "final glade"(6).
Address to the Toothache by Robert Burns ANOTHER COLUMN ABOUT SCOTTISH POETRY. WARNING: DO NOT READ THE FOLLOWING IF YOU HAVE ANY DENTAL APPOINTMENTS COMING UP. ADDRESS TO THE TOOTHACHE BY ROBERT BURNS My curse upon your venom sting, That shoots my tortured gums along And through my lug gig utter a twang With gnawing vengeance, Tearing my nerves with bitter pang, Like racking engines? A down my beard the slavers trickle, I throw the wee stools over the mickle, While round the fire the giglets keckle, To see me loup, An' raving mad, I wish a heckle Were i' their doup! When fevers burn or ague freezes, Rheumatics gnaw or colic squeezes, Our neebors sympathise to ease us Wi' pitying moan; But thee!
He sings his praise of it, “The air is sweet with the scent of his blood” (140). Grendel still does not know why he commits these actions, yet he finds them satisfying to his being. Therefore Grendel is an exemplary choice of an existential character in the novel Grendel, based on the character of the same name. Grendel’s fight with nature only augments his hatred of others, causing a deeper and darker evil to be born. He turns to loneliness as a refuge when no one listens to him, as the goat did and before the humans.
The simile “like old beggars under sacks” illustrates the dirty, weak image of the soldiers which contrasts the strong, heroic image which was portrayed of them at the time. This image was the belief of Jessie Pope who encouraged men to fight for their country. In contrast, Owen uses personification in ‘The Sentry’ to convey the appalling living conditions on the frontline as the steps were “choked” by mud. This is effective as it shows how much slush and mud was in the trenches. Both poems use nightmare underwater imagery, in ‘Dulce...’ Owen describes a soldier as he starts “drowning” under a “green sea” when he is overcome by gas.
Gas! Gas! Quick, boys!—An ecstasy of fumbling, Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time; But someone still was yelling out and stumbling And flound’ring like a man in fire or lime... Dim, through the misty panes and thick green light, As under a green sea, I saw him drowning. In all my dreams, before my helpless sight, He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning. If in some smothering dreams you too could pace Behind the wagon that we flung him in, And watch the white eyes writhing in his face, His hanging face, like a devil’s sick of sin; If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs, Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,— My friend, you would not tell with such high zest To children ardent for some desperate glory, The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori.
Forrest hill Professor P. Burgey English 1101-19 25 October 2010 Young Goodman Brown Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story, Young Goodman Brown, is a story of a man who lost faith in humanity. Goodman Brown is a naïve character who is unaware of many if the iniquities of which people he idolizes have committed. Goodman has many weaknesses; he is self righteous as well as naïve, but most of all Brown is conceited. Brown’s character traits are obvious throughout the short story. From the start, Goodman Brown shows conceit, and up until the very end Brown pays the consequences for his weaknesses.