The writers of “Valentine and “My last duchess” have very contrasting and different ways of explaining their feelings on love. The structure of the first poem “Valentine” is simply not present. It has a very irregular structure, which symbolises the idea of an unconventional relationship and the opposite of what some may believe to be love. All the stanzas in this poem are different lengths, which means that she is simply speaking as she feels. There is no rhyme pattern that could mean that there is no flow or ease in this relationship.
The persona is not subjected to the artificiality of the world at first, and this represents the wonderful times in his life – the symbolic oxymoron and juxtaposition “a pure unadulterated fringe of sky, littered with stars no-one had got around to fixing up yet” exemplifies this concept. Contrasting with this stanza is the one preceding it. The use and capitalisation of imperatives such as “NO BREATHING EXCEPT BY ORDER” represents and foreshadows the troubled times in life. Dawe and Seymour have approached their ideas very differently. Where Seymour aimed to portray how it was important to establish a sense of connection with others, Dawe demonstrates how a lack of connection with others leads to a lack of understanding.
I don’t consider your / Pronouncements so important that they can / Just…overrule the unwritten laws of heaven. / You are a man, remember” (Sophocles 12). This seen illustrates, that Creon does think he is god, and has no respect for the real gods. Antigone in so many words is explaining to him that he is wrong, and a person should not be denied burial rights for any reason. Creon does not like her explanation, and explains that “I don’t care if she is my sister’s daughter.
Garson believes that Keats is reinforcing the representation in race, class and gender relations. “The poem, then, is written not in a historical vacuum, but in the face of a national act of appropriation that seemed to promise England benefits not only spiritual but also material, and in the context of the political debate of which Keats was fully aware. The ode, however, tends apparently to suppress both the appropriation and the debate” (455), Garson says. Garson tells us that Ode on a Grecian Urn has no significance or relation to historical context. Indeed that new historicism does not focus on the historical as much however does focus on the culture.
Just like a religious believer who states “god loves us” but can’t explain the contradiction of evil in the world, believers qualify their statements by explaining god’s love is not like humans love he calls this “death by a thousand qualifications”. Therefore religious language is meaningless. However religion has responded to the falsification principle. R.B Braithwaite argued that the falsification principle explains religious language as cognitive when it if in fact non cognitive and therefore cannot be falsified, religious language is therefore still meaningful. Hare also responds to the falsification principle, showing that religious statements are meaningful even though they cannot be falsified because they have a significant impact for the people using the statement.
It is funny that the two have done nothing of the sort in reality. The speaker implicitly requests the lady not to worry because at least that kind of canonization might happen in the future. Those foolish people will regard the hair and bones as things for doing miracle by the lovers; to the man, the miracle is a different one. He does regard that his beloved is a real miracle, however. He is writing the present poem to tell the truth to those who will read and know the reality of those future times when people will make nonsense myths out of such incidents.
The Haunter Imaginatively, and most pathetically, Hardy writes this plaintive and moving poem from the point of view of Emma. It is written in the first person, with her as the imaginary narrator. It is almost as if, in putting these words in the mouth of Emma (who, in the poem, sees Hardy as oblivious of her presence) Hardy is trying to reassure himself that she forgives him and continues to love him. Detailed commentary Though Hardy does not know it, Emma's phantom follows him in his meanderings, hearing, but unable to respond to, the remarks he addresses to her in his grief. When Emma was able to answer Hardy did not address her so frankly; when she expressed a wish to accompany him Hardy would become reluctant to go anywhere - but now he does wish she were with him.
Devoid of identity everything on this planet would be uniform and cause the boredom of the century this will deprive the world of ever having a joy and passion for life. The texts that validate and prove my analysis that identity is the key component of life are: 1) “Portrait”, the themes of identity that portrait provides are the effect of time on identity, change of identity, and that the identity of a person is his image. 2) “Nobody Calls Me a Wog, Anymore”, the themes that this poem expresses about identity are diversity of identity, the identity’s passion for equality treatment despite of differences, and respect. 3) “Happy Endings”, written by Margaret Atwood, explores identity through freedom, choice, and destiny of and identity. 4) “Persona”, a movie by Ingmar Bergman, portrays the weakness and strengths of a person’s identity.
As the community’s priest, he is more of a symbol than a human being. Other than Chillingworth, those around the minister ignore his anguish, viewing it as holiness. Dimmesdale never really sees the truth of what Hester has learned: that "individuality and strength are gained by quiet self-assertion and by a reconfiguration, not a rejection, of one’s assigned identity". Symbolism is the applied use of any iconic representations, which carry particular conventional meanings. Within The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne incorporates symbolism to expose a deeper meaning in the story.
He came up with the idea that religious experiences are nothing but wishful thinking that cause the illusion of the oldest and most profound idea one has. He would use Nicky Cruz as a contemporary example here and say his conversion was due to his tough childhood; however this is a mere speculation. Freud did not present any evidence Another idea of what Freud believed is that as humans we are completely material, he denied the