2008 AP LIT FREE RESPONSE: Section II, Question One In both poems “When I Have Fears” by John Keats, and “Mezzo Cammin” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, both narrators expose their unfulfilled aspirations with the underlying fear that death will soon approach. Keats explains how his career as a famous, credited author has not yet been fulfilled, and fears that he will not live long enough to do so. Conversely, Longfellow looks back on his past slightly disappointed, but assured that he has the latter half of his life to accomplish his objectives and goals. Longfellow is dismal and terrified of death, while Keats comes to realize that his dreams are infinitesimal in the grand scheme of things, and any life lived is a gift that will eventually succumb to death. Keats’ poem is one extensive run-on sentence that truly “runs” across the page.
Katrina discusses the lack of control that we have in life and that death is simply another part of life that we must accept. Enter Without So Much As Knocking talks about how we take life for granted and we waste the time we have. All of the poems hold aspects of Futility, Life, Pain, Purpose, Anger and Disapproval these are the most likely things to make people rethink their position and how they behave towards others. The use of imagery both visual and aural is a powerful tool used masterfully by Dawe to get his messages across. Normally someone’s homecoming is cause for a celebration, but in Dawe’s poem, Homecoming Dawe uses this in an ironic sense.
Relationships are only consequential casualties of an apocalyptic world to people who hold them in high regard. This is evident in the novel Things We Didn’t See Coming by Steven Amsterdam which depicts the story of a man’s struggle through strange and horrific terrain as he goes about the no longer simple act of survival in a post-apocalyptic world. In a world where survival is a daily struggle some people strayed away from the constraints and complications that came from maintaining relationships not viewing them as a necessary and as such not viewing them as causality. This is not however the case for all characters in the text some fought to maintain their relationships even if they knew the struggles that it would bring. Those that feel they do not require relationships in their lives do not viewed them as any great sacrifice in order to survive in a world riddled with hardships.
The overwhelming significance of this complete responsibility causes fear and anxiety in many people. According to existentialism, it often causes people to ignore both their freedom and their responsibility by letting other people make choices for them. For this reason, in No Exit, when Garcin tries to escape from Hell the door suddenly opens, but he is unable to leave. He simply cannot handle the responsibility of confronting his decision to be a coward and flee his country. Garcin then lets his decision to walk through the door be contingent on Inez’ judgment of him, as he hopes for her approval.
and that when coming to the end of life its not going to be easy , its going to be painful in some way, not all physical but even mental. He also says that, “Through wise men at their end know the dark is right, Because their words had forked no lightning they, Do not go gentle into that good night.” What he means is that at the end of life, the right is unenviable. In the second part of this line he is showing that the wise men don’t attract attention when they are dieing.
The Things They Carried: Speaking of Courage [P.151 – 152] – commentary The passage on pages 151 and 152 from The Things They Carried, Speaking of Courage is of the character Norman Bowker wanting to have the courage to speak up of the death of Kiowa. Both Tim O’Brien and Norman Bowker illustrate in this passage the effects of speaking and not speaking about the war on people. This relates to the pain of war experience yet not being able to get past it even after the war has ended. O’Brien is able to deal with these memories by writing them into stories. However, Bowker is still unable to talk about the trauma in which the war has given him.
He explains that we will always be living on edge because we cannot predict what our future holds. He compares the difference in being a Theist verse Atheist; also he wants us to be honest with ourselves and stop practicing ritual that we don’t believe in but gravitate to when situations arise that we cannot find the answers to. He challenges us to come up with some realistic ceremonies that would “strengthen ourselves in our most testing and tragic times”. The author believes that your spirit and your soul do not live on after you die since they depend on each other to function. The human race will eventually no longer exist just like all others creations here on earth.
McCarthy title No Country For Old Men comes from the first line of the poem “Sailing to Byzantium” which quoted “That is no country for old men…” In the beginning of the monologues he quotes, “I wouldn’t push my chips forward and stand up and go out to meet him.” “It ain’t just being older” “Because I always knew that you had to be willin to die to even do this job.” “And I think a man would have to put his soul at hazard…..and I won’t do that…I think now that maybe I would never.”(4) My name is Llewelyn Moss, I am In one of Sheriff Bell’s monologues he talks about a survey that was sent out to a number of schools. He quotes, “And the biggest problems they could name was things like talking in class and running in the hallways.” Forties years later he quoted, “The biggest problem was Rape, arson, murder, drugs and suicide. (196)” ( He also quotes “ The Mexico drug war: Bodies for billions states that, “Over the past five years, nearly 48,000 people have been killed in suspected drug-related violence in Mexico.” They also said that, “Mexican
That his life has ended and there is no direction he can take. A similarity between the two poems is that they both use imperatives. Evidence of this in ‘Death be not proud’ is ‘be not proud’. Donne is commanding Death not to be proud and is saying that Death should not be proud of himself because Death is powerless and irrelevant. However, although they both use imperatives, they still present death completely differently.
In this poem, the nettles represent the many dangers in the world that could bring us pain, yet we are helpless to protect ourselves against them. Likewise, “Born Yesterday” is a narrative structure written in first person. However, the lack of rhyme scheme creates the theme of the unpredictable future from which the baby cannot be protected from to portray the fear of the unknown. With reference to the title, “Born Yesterday” is highlighting the past and Larkin’s own personal experience based on