He knows death awaits him but he can decide when. Agamemnon has taken the glory from Achilles and with it he no longer sees the value in honor through combat. Achilles believes now that honor is only found in death. “One and the same lot for the man who hangs back and the man who battles hard. The same honor waits for the coward and the brave.
The ancient myth of a phoenix rising from the ashes tells us that if something is destroyed or dead it will inevitably arise from its ashes and reinvent itself. The phoenix myth tells us that there is life after death.Furthermore, the myth has a strong emphasis on reemergence and rebirth. Many people presume that the phoenix myth displays hope and perseverance. In Amy Clampitt’s poem Berceuse we learn that what arises from the ashes is not always peaceful and joyous. Clampitt uses the phoenix myth in comparison to the aftermath of the Holocaust and the Auschwitz death camps.
As I mentioned before the topic dealt with in this poem is the war and patriotism. It is from the viewpoint of a soldier and he is explaining how every death of an English soldier on another land is a victory. Rupert Brooke uses imagery to help you see the text as it progresses. Line one is ‘If I should die, think only this of me:’ this implies that Rupert Brooke believes everything he has written. And if he was to die in another country he would be proud.
During the war, a large number of those soldiers were killed in an ignoble fashion by diseases, poisons, ambushing, or in battles that shed blood everywhere. They died far away from home abandoned on battle fields. Countless soldiers were thrown into mass graves, never being identified. It was then the surviving soldier’s responsibility to write the deceased’s family members a letter expressing their dying son’s last words. This act of sending the dying words of the loved one was imperative to the family that was left behind.
He utterly envies the men who died in the Trojan War, wishing he could be so lucky, as to die behind the walls. Instead he is fated to endure the wrath of Juno and lead the fleet of people to found a new city. He is a rather interesting character, different than common heroes, like Achilles in the Iliad, who are driven by kleos in their piety. Aeneas on the other hand, is strictly motivated by fate, but he still proves to be equally as pious, as heroes like Achilles. Not
“To An Athlete Dying Young” “To An Athlete Dying Young” by A. E. Housman a young sportsman meets a seemingly tragic demise. Yet his death is not just met with grief but also with honor as he dyes the death of a champion and will remain one so long as he is alive in memories as no one will have the chance to defeat him. The poem “To An Athlete Dying Young” embodies the saying “the good die young” and shows there are other ways of viewing death than sorrow and trepidation. At first sight Housman appears to be challenging traditional views about death in this poem. The traditional view being it is best to live a long life and accept ones triumphs and defeats as they come; however, this was not always believed and so Mr. Housman is not conveying a new concept of death but evoking an ancient belief concerning the glory of a champion.
Yes, he is honoring the gods by taking on this challenge, but he was also promised by Apollo that it is not his fate to die at this time. Therefore, he knows he will defeat the Achaean who steps forward, and he is confident of the honor he will receive when he wins this battle which is, in Hector's words, “what the heart inside me urges” (7.79). Towards the beginning of Hector's speech, he sheds light upon Zeus' impatience with the war when Hector claims, “...and all the Father decrees is death for both sides at once” (7.82). Hector advocates that, in Zeus' eyes, the fighting has gone on long enough, and it is time for things to get serious and the two armies need to reach their final goal in sacking the city of Troy. When Hector begins to speak directly to the Achaean army rather than the entire battlefield, he shows respect to the Greek warriors and admires their honorable individuals.
He would only try to win the crowd and use them for his own good. The honorable Brutus saved Rome by killing Caesar. If Caesar didn’t need to die then why did he accept that he was going to die? Caesar said, “Et tu, Brute? Then fall Caesar.”(3.1.85) When he said that, he was saying that he was okay with dying by his friend, Brutus.
They believe man can be doomed to die or granted prosperity in life. The Anglo-Saxon poems, “The Seafarer,” “The Wanderer,” and “The Wife’s Lament” exemplify this creed of the limit of one’s free will. The speakers question how wryd affects their lives. The speakers in all three poems use the human condition to comment on the role wryd plays in life. By doing so, the speakers show that fate and destiny remains stronger than free will.
I can choose my own religion and I am proud to be an American because I wake each day knowing that who I want to become, is entirely up to me. Many people come from all over the world in pursuit of the American dream. That dream is true because American is where all dreams can come through. We have the ultimate gift that any many men fight great wars and battle fearlessly for centuries and that is freedom. With a vision, hard work and passion - anything is possible as my mother always told me “The Sky is the limit”.