Sheers writes of ordinary everyday happenings such as digging a field in preparation for planting and in so doing bones of dead soldiers are found. Mametz Wood is about these wasted lives but Sheers puts them into a context of nature that rolls over these events and in effect ignores them. The actual falling leaves in this poem symbolise the falling solidiers who are dying in the battlefield. The poet uses what we call in poetry an extended metaphor. The leaves are the soldiers.
On the other hand, Brown uses words and phrases such as "everything had turned bad," "gone," "replaced by an endless desolation," "roamed restlessly," and "return to their reservations to keep from starving." Brown's use of words depict a picture of a land that destroyed. You can also imply that he is resentful towards the white hunters who caused for the land to be desolate. There appears to be no hope in the land and the words create a sense of bitterness. His forlorn diction allows the reader to envision a land that is dead and no more.
FINAL ESSAY, STOP-TIME TOPIC: Tobey and Frank find a dead mule in the forest. They experience a strange new understanding of life and death and their place in the world. Every once in a while, you will come across something that instills in you a perspective, completely new or opposing to the previous one, on life. In Frank Conroy's memoir, Stop-Time, Frank and Tobey discover a dead mule, and the sight of it causes the boys to talk about the incident for weeks to come. Stumbling upon the dead mule changes the boys' ideas about life and death, giving them a new appreciation for life, and how they have this feeling of time stopping throughout this journey of before, during and right after this revelation strikes them.
“Boy, when you’re dead, they really fix you up. I hope to hell when I do die somebody has sense enough to just dump me in the river or something. Anything except stick me in a goddam cemetery. People coming and putting a bunch of flowers on your stomach on Sunday, and all that crap. Who wants flowers when you’re dead?
Spencer Lewis Doug Evans 2:10 class 14 November 2011 How to Cut Grass Like a Man I like my yards like I like my women, well-shaven. Cutting grass is a task all men should know how to do, just like watching football and beating your wife. So I won’t waste time going into specifics. The first step in kicking your yard’s ass is to ready your weapon. This guide will explore the push weapon as oppose to the riding weapon.
for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?” (Ecclesiastes 6:12, King James Version). There is no book of literature (such as the Bible) to use as a guide to live by, so there is really nothing to gauge morals or ethics by other than a gut instinct. Because of this mindset, relativism is a way of life, as there is no such thing as absolute truth. Truth is symbiotic and subject to change according to the individual and society at large. Secular Humanists believe when you die, that’s the end of everything; there is no afterlife.
He seems to be lost within the joy of killing when he says “Another baby next. O one-two-three the murderer inside me rose up hard.” Which Hitler himself became enthralled with soon losing sight of his reasons behind the “exterminations.” It is the last sentence in the last stanza that connects all of the dots. “If only they’d all consented to die unseen gassed underground the quiet Nazi way.” This quote is included to help show the much deeper more literal meaning of this poem. It also adds to the view that the farmer has gone from trying to save his farm from pests to trying to almost wipe the entire species of woodchucks from the earth. It also seems to show that he blames the woodchucks for not going down easily adding to the reader’s view of him becoming completely
Love was not so beautiful or easy as he perceived it. And with the dying love the nature and the grass was dying alongside. Then Gatsby was shot and killed. When found Nick says, “The touch of a cluster of leaves [revolves] it slowly, tracing like the leg of a compass, a thin red circle in the water” (170). Gatsby has no point in living anymore because the one thing he wanted in life he would never have.
The poem is not about a song in the traditional sense of the word but more about the song of life. The word song is used to mean actions or a way of operating. His father’s song in the poem is his knowledge of the corn field and the care of all life. His actions are a song. My Father’s Song also focuses on a main point in many Indian cultures, the value of all living things and the idea of responsibility and growing up.
However in the end, Myrtle is killed, and her heart is left open for all to see, only to finally blend into the dust she had rebelled against for so long. Gatsby, on-the-other-hand, though he lives in West Egg, also has his dreams robbed by the valley of ashes. Because of his connection to Myrtle through the Buchanans, Gatsby dies at the hands of George; whose hopelessness epitomizes the very personality of the valley of ashes. With Gatsby’s death, Fitzgerald reveals that even though one may not have ever come into contact with the waste that materialistic society expels, the waste created by commercialism can and will at times strike when the blow is least