It's not till the end of the book when Kamala and Siddarthas son come into the picture and he finally suffers by losing them both. Siddartha needed to loose love in order to find enlightenment. Through love SIddartha finds his way to englightenment. All the time he had spent with kamala, and learning the art of love from Kalmala, made him start loving her. Siddartha did not beleive that he could or that he should love if he wanted to find englightenment so he left the village and continued on his own.
The boy relates his feelings to death and how he feels lost, even though he is not dying. The feeling of heartbreak for the first time can feel as though it is the end of the world, and this is how the young couple are feeling. They have extremely different points of view than the speaker. The speaker in the poem is an old man who does not understand why the young couple are mourning over their relationship. He also wishes he were younger and relates his thoughts about death to the actual meaning, not relationships.
Typically, I would go through and just read a piece of writing without taking the time to really look into the meaning/purpose and message. But this project really taught me to not be as oblivious and what to pay attention to. With that, I was able to take address a few learning outcomes; which among these are, Language and the Individual, Language and Social Relations, and Language and Belief. Instantly, I knew that I wanted to incorporate a poem when doing this assignment, but I had no clue or idea what one to pick. I read through tons and tons of poems until I found The Road Not Taken.
Morrie deteaches himself so that he can accept these predicaments in his life and so that he will be able to embrace his deathe easier since he’s well aware that it’s approaching. A quote Morrie constantly refers is to “Love each other or die”. He stresses this quote and major theme in the novel because he feels that an abundance of love and compassion is the highest sense of fulfillment that one can experience; especially because Morrie had such a significant lack of both love and compassion throughout his childhood. Love is so crucial to Morrie as he is nearing his final days of life because he feels that without the care of those who love him, he would perish. Morrie is not afraid of dying, however
Is Happiness Catching? In today’s world more and more people need to feel a sense of acceptance. We have lost our sense of self, and are choosing to do thing just to fit in. In the story “Is Happiness Catching” an older couple chooses to live their life based on what the people surrounding them are doing. Many of us do this without even realizing it.
For the man lack of acknowledgement of time has surely caught up to him. Now he can only reminisce of what once was. Throughout the poem this man talks with a gloomy voice sadden by reality. For he is learning to just accept life for what it is, grasping the circle of life. The path that all human beings must take from birth till death.
In this poem ‘The Lost Heritage’ by Heather Buck, the poet is seemingly concerned about forgotten past; how man is now alienated from nature when at one point, man and nature shared a very close and warm relationship. The poet expresses her views that we are so engrossed and lost in our present lives, that we have forgotten the legacies of the past. Our lives are ‘indelibly printed by one another’. Buck claims that our children today do not have a role; they are merely objectified as something sitting on the floor surrounded by a myriad of towering adults. They are deprived of learning the ‘intricate’ and colourful patterns that have shaped their lives, and thus, have lost their heritage.
Compare how a characters voice is created in “My Last Duchess” and ONE other poem. The characters’ voices in “My Last Duchess” and “The River God” are created in very similar but also different ways. In both poems we can see that the characters are created as quite lonely in, “My Last Duchess” and “The River God”. The writer of “My last Duchess” uses euphemism to display his loneliness to the reader. “This grew; I gave commands; then all smiles stopped together.” This quote creates a sense of loneliness to the reader seeing as the speaker is saying that “all smiles stopped” implies that the person who smiled is no longer alive but now dead.
It is unfortunate that many people will never know what it truly feels like to be part of loving family. While reading “The Stories of John Cheever” it dawned upon myself that Cheever’s idea of a family is something extremely different from my views. One particular story that proved this point was “Goodbye My Brother”. Regardless of how dysfunctional or not your family is you shouldn’t blame them for the way you are and take time to step out of your day to day life and examine yourself from inside out. While reading “Goodbye My Brother”, a story about a family who whom of mostly are stuck in their old habits and in denial about how their family is “close in spirit” but in actuality there is a disconnect amongst the members.
Alone time is essential for feeling yourself. With alone time people might even start to see a change in you and you will definitely find a change in yourself. Alone time has changed my world and I believe everyone needs to take some time away from busy schedules to really feel at peace and on top of things. When time is taken for yourself it can be used for finding inspiration, new music or bands, and even yourself. Alone time is important, this I