It’s human nature to judge people we don’t know. It’s our minds way of protecting ourselves. If someone seems out of the ordinary, his or her actions may be as well. Judgment allows us to keep our distance and ensure that being naïve isn’t the last thing we do. John Berryman’s, “the Traveler,” is a poem about a nomadic man who is always different from the people around him.
It represents the light of knowledge. He wants people to see clearly that the life “at the market” is not everything that there is even if it clearly seems so under the daylight. The small light of the lantern, which can be hardly seen during the daylight, is contrasted with daylight to show that the knowledge is not at the surface, and it is not easy to realise that. Later, when he is trying to explain the terrible deed of killing God and the consequences of life without His light, the Madman asks “Is not night continually closing on us? Do we not need to light lanterns in the morning?” (181).He wants people to understand that without the light the darkness is coming, in other words, when the light of knowledge is leaving them with it goes the meaning.
Therefore the reader is forced to wonder if it would be better to know the facts or to be left in suspense; is knowledge worth the realization of facts that were intended to remain unknown? From the first chapter till the last few pages of the book, the narrator, Jack, hosts an ongoing battle of “innocence vs. awareness” within himself. Towards the beginning of the novel Jack claims to believe in the principle “ignorance is bliss” so much as to seem nihilistic: “…after I got hold of that principle I became an idealist…If you are an idealist it does not matter what you do or what goes on around you because it isn’t real anyway.” (Warren 45). In spite of his strong beliefs in the beginning of the story, Jack’s views begin to change in chapter eight after he informs Judge Irwin of the
The neighbor, on the other hand, asserts that the wall is crucial to maintaining their relationship, asserting, “Good fences make good neighbors.” Over the course of the mending, the narrator attempts to convince his neighbor otherwise and accuses him of being old-fashioned for maintaining the tradition so strictly. The neighbor, all the while, holds his ground simply repeating his old adage. This poem displays a deep idea that is often overlooked. People, regardless of their relationship/closeness, still have boundaries, and walls must still exist around all people. The narrator questions the need for a boundary between them, while the neighbor insists on its presence.
The quote “’we shall not report our find to the City Council. We shall not report it to any men.’” demonstrates ethics. This quote demonstrates ethics because Equality knows the right thing to do would be to report his find to the council, but because of his curiosity and interest in the tunnel he refuses to tell or let his friend tell the council of the tunnel. Ethics is one of the main points of Ayn Rand’s theory of objectivism and she proves how Equality demonstrates it through his disobeying of the city council. “I wished to know the meaning of things, am I the meaning” illustrates objectivism through epistemology.
‘Spring’s here, Winter’s not gone’ – Discuss ways in whichThomas presents uncertainty in ‘But these things also’ Uncertainty is a a huge theme that runs throughout the entirity of Thomas’ poetry, particularly in the poem ‘But these things also’. He does this by using a variaty of techniques suchas his choice of imagery, language and also the lack of rhyme. Thomas used this lack of a rhyme scheme to show the reader that he felt poetry shouldn’t be twisted to fit a certain mould. Thomas often used nature as a topic for his poems, because as a poet he felt he could relate to the uncertainty of it, and this becomes clear to the reader within ‘But these things also’. Immediately as a reader we are thrown into the theme of uncertainty due to the ambigious title.
If we ask for a theme, is it okay for them to write a poem?” (Perez) Chris Semansky says “In his poem “Theme for English B,” Langston Hughes complicates the idea that the lyric “I” is a reflection of a coherent, stable identity by calling into question the notation that one can reveal the truth simply by expressing oneself. Instead, Hughes suggests that the self, rather than being coherent and autonomous, is actually the effect of relationships. These relationships inevitably involve power and, in Hughes’s case, include race, age, national, and professional identity.”
The fact that Peter is becoming more Australian further distances him from his father leading to isolation and alienation. The distance growing between them is shown in the metaphor “Further and further south of Hadrian’s Wall”. In the poem Feliks has tried to instil in Peter a sense of cultural belonging but it is impossible for Peter to develop the sense of belonging to a nation, a culture and heritage that is a large aspect of Feliks’s life. This attempt fails as a feeling of belonging cannot be enforced or easily
Therefor he is only just acting on his theory and doing nothing, whilst source three would argue that maybe he should go back a look at the situation again and look for a different theory as to why the world is the way it is and act on the new theory. Source two also goes against the statement of source one where men cannot bear to see the suffering of others. The man in source two clearly cares for his comfort and wellbeing vs. the comfort and wellbeing for others which goes against what source one had to say. Source two does not care how big of a mess the world is as long as it does affect him. He is doing busy doing nothing to ease
In regard to the actual fence it should be low enough to allow communication between the neighbors while keeping some things out. The same applies to the personal fence. Do not build a stone wall between each other that allows for no communication. I believe that any division between one another constructing a boundary may create a safe and secure feeling, but it also creates isolation between one another. In the long run it can create a dispute over the need of a wall, which will create an emotional wall; Here you have two people with different opinions about the wall, one who wonders and thinks about "why", and the other who is stuck in old tradition and doesn't question the necessity of the wall, probably not even understanding his own