19 May 2011 Explication of Theodore Roethke’s “Root Cellar” A popular theme of a variety of art and media, life and death are often focused on individually. In the poem “Root Cellar,” Theodore Roethke creates a vivid depiction of life fighting for survival. To give a sense of the struggle life is facing, the poet uses a vocabulary that conveys a sense of unease and degradation. Perhaps drawing on his upbringing, Roethke shows a contrast of existence amidst backdrop of downtrodden cellar in the throes of decay, giving readers an insight into the intrinsic power of life’s resilient capabilities. The poem opens with heavy imagery to show the difficulty that one would expect life to have surviving in a root cellar.
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”.
Unless you have experienced it yourself you cannot understand it. Updike and his poetry, and Rhys with her short story they describe death and impermanence in their own ways. When Rhys describes life after death in I Used to Live Here Once and Updike describes not everything is permanent like in Dog’s Death by John Updike I see that both are talking about forms of death. While they both talk about it, one tells what it would be like after you die and the other describes the pain, and sadness leading to it. Through out the short story and poem I realized that the authors used tone, and symbolism in their literary work as described in our textbooks.
Wilmer Ortiz Ortiz 1 John Benvenuto English 102 March 8, 2013 The Unseen Line Between Life and Death Throughout history we have seen evidence of man’s obsession with mortality. In an effort to understand the unknown, writers create stories through literature that give readers an explanation they can grasp. This writing about our impermanence shows just how insecure and un-accepting we can be of this unavoidable fate. Literature often has the ability to show just how vulnerable humans can be, and yet somehow manage to find elegant, beautiful and dignified ways to show. Three
There are numerous anxieties in the human services staff, but burnout has to be one of them. You have your cons and pros when working in Human Services. It can be amazing and demanding at the same time. A huge amount of effort, not keeping under control, and harmonizing between family and occupation can cause the surroundings to become tense. The purpose of this paper is to assess suffer exhaustion; explain some of the person, ethnicity, clerical, administrative, and community encouragement factors that bring about burnout.
.“If thou didst ever hold me in thy heart…Absent thee from felicity a while…and in this harsh world draw thy breath is pain…to tell my story.” Hamlet asks his friend to tell his story after he actually dies. He wishes for this to happen so that people know the real story and remember. All and all, Horatio is very important throughout the play and is a great friend to Hamlet,
Society and the media have a bigger impact on the people of today because everyone wants to keep up with everyone else. Nobody wants to be left behind so to speak. Having high goals on one’s life would actually lead to a suicide because if you fail them then you would be really brought down by your own failure. On a work done by Dr. Iga’s it is shows that “a great degree of goal-means discrepancy, perception of a failure situation as irredeemable, and an alienated self-concept” are also some of the factors that affect someone badly (Iga). This information is basically the same thing I had
Explain how death and dying have changed with the shift from premodern to post modern societies? According to some Death and Dying has evolved into a modern society of self denials around the issue of death. “From a psycological perspective individuals use denial as as a defence mechanism when confronted with events of a potentially tramatising nature” (Freud, 1940). It can be viewed that since death is no longer witnessed in modern lives that some have become afraid and would rather deny the reality of death. “The British socail anthropologist Geoffrey Gorer and the French historian Phillippe Aries are recognised as early proponents of the idea of the existence of death-denying societies” (Walter, 1991).
The work force of today has no problem with questioning authority and challenging the old way of doing things. If a leader can control the situation and guide and direct the feelings and focus of the work force, then this could be a good thing. We have learned that challenging the process is what actually makes for continual process improvement. Many fought against that in the past, GenXers embrace it as a daily thing that is necessary for growth in the company and the market. The mindset of the GenXers were shaped by a shocked and unstable world economy, world violence, politics, and less than reputable businessmen and women who continued to control the direction of those appointed below them.
Thus, both texts deal with the concept of fitting in to one’s own choice or an institution in terms that signify two different types of death. In Kesey’s novel, it is a death of self-expression whereas in Frost’s poem, death as a restriction of time and space which brings new life. To conclude, “One flew over the Cuckoo’s nest” and “The Road Not Taken” are texts which address conformity and wether an individual should decide to conform to mainstream society’s rules or take “The Road Not Taken” and suffer the consequences of that decision. Murphy dies but chief is given new life which illustrates both the negative and positive effect individuality can have. In Frost’s poem, it is all shown through the persona acknowledging he cannot go back and change his decisions and he will be stuck with his choices which will shape the rest of his life.