The poet wants to show the meaning of life. He sheds light on the fact of death and the brevity of our life. The rhetorical question shows that the poet belittles man's life because it is short and transient. The word "division" shows that man's happiness is short and temporary. The word "short" shows the brevity of the earthly life.
How does the exploration of the connections between two texts from different times deepen our understanding of what is constant in human nature? The comparative study of the poetry of John Donne and Margaret Edson’s play, W;t, reveals changes in context inform what we value in human nature, specifically in regards to finitude, relationships and humanity. John Donne’s Holy Sonnets, ‘Death be not proud’, ‘This is my playes last scene’ and ‘If poysonous mineralls’ explore the fear of death and the need to belittle it, whereas ‘Hymne to God my God, in my Sicknesse’ (‘Hymne’) and ‘A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning’ (‘Valediction’) deal with the idealised, spiritual aspects of love and relationships. The need to undermine the power of death is reflected, though expressed differently, in both ‘Death be not proud’ and W;t. In ‘Death be not proud’, the personification of death, the logical argumentative structure and tone of the sonnet cohesively highlight the idea that death is not the absolute end, and can be transcended through a religious belief in salvation. In the concluding couplet, Donne affirms that after “one short sleepe” imposed upon us by death, we wake to the eternal life of salvation and in that life of the soul, “death shall be no more”.
Professor Merchant Essay 4 Rough Draft October 21, 2012 Let Me Choose No human being wants to be in pain; but, what if the only way to stay alive was to live with pain. What is worse, dyeing purposely to end the pain or to live through the pain as long as possible to extend life? Dudley Randall shows that life is worth living no matter what. The speaker in “To the Mercy killers” begs for his or her life by changeling the mercy killers that want to end the speaker’s pain. Dudley Randall’s poem, ‘To the Mercy Killers,” argues for saving life paradoxically by pointing out all the reason to take it.
“It is when his absence is glaring that God is most necessary.” Sulphuric Acid by Amelie Nothomb p. 44 To believe in a higher being is a natural human comfort; it helps to put our minds at ease when we are confronted with a question we cannot answer and gives us hope about life in general. However, perhaps the downside of believing in God is that during the times that we need him the most, it appears that He is ignoring our cries for love and support by simply disappearing. This quote from Nothomb’s novel Sulphuric Acid not only applies to the story she portrays, but also in George Clooney’s Goodnight and Goodluck. Although these two stories seem to be completely different expressed in two different ways, they have one thing in common: the subject on relying on God when there’s nothing or no one else to turn to. Since this quote was derived from the pages of Sulphuric Acid, the meaning best applies to this story.
He is beaten down by the sun with its rays and is taunted by the endless sight of water that he cannot drink. Nature is the force in this poem that has power to decide what is right or wrong and how to deal with the actions. The natural order is replaced when the mariner reconciles his sins and realizes what nature really is and what it means to him. On the other hand this poem could be Coleridge mocking the crime and reprobation system in place, because although the mariner is punished this is short lived. The mariner accepts his punishment and lives on with only the slight burden of telling a story rather than facing death.
Compare the ways in which Donne and Auden present death in ‘Death be not proud’ and ‘Funeral Blues’ Donne and Auden’s poems have some similarities and some differences. They are both poems about death, and in both poems they are talking about the negatives death has but Death be not proud is addressing death and Funeral Blues is addressing the reader. They both use imperatives in similar ways aswell. Both poems are taking negatively about death but portray their feelings very differently. Donne’s attitude in ‘Death be no proud’ is aggressive whereas Auden’s is sad and distraught.
The decisions he makes during the day don’t keep him up at night, His faith in fate leaves him unscathed, it allows him to move forward, to come back and save people the next day. Npt everyone can be saved, not everyone can be healed. People must die to allow others to be saved, Talzani knew this and he believed
She denies the seriousness of loss and the sadness it brings by highlighting the commoness of loss and depicting its nature not as a process but as an “art”, evading its disastrous nature. However the poet eventually comes to the realisation of the disastrous effect of losing a person and seems to waver in her opinion. In the first half of the poem Elizabeth Bishop portrays the nature of loss as a common occurrence on a everyday basis and argues that it is not as bad as people claim it to be. The poem’s title “One Art” subtly takes away the pejorative connotation associated with loss and emphasizes that people should accept loss as it is. The poet’s indifference to loss is revealed in the statement “so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster”, highlighting that loss occurs commonly, like any other daily activity, and should not be allowed to let it upset ourselves.
In opposition to Edwards beliefs, through his work Thanatopsis, Bryant portrays an acceptance of death. He believes that one shouldn’t live in fear of dying, in fact, he actually states the opposite in his poem. When one is being overwhelmed by thoughts of death he
Once they have eaten of the lotus they prefer its half-life and they would prefer death rather than setting forth again. “The Lotus-Eaters” is amongst other things a creative allusion to Homer and presents the question of a known outcome not mentioned within the poem. The same question is found in Tennyson’s allusion to Shakespeare in his poem “Marianna”. The end of the story in Homer is very definitely not the mariners’ drugged wish, however Tennyson is interested in that moment that evokes a state of trance in the mariners. The readers know that in Homer the mariners continue with their journey but Tennyson opts to explore the mariners’ state when they are drawn to a life away from labor and responsibilities.