This Iambic Pentameter accompanied with the enjambment is the closest thing to narrating a story in poetry. By almost narrating a story, the poem gives us an insight in to the Egyptian king’s life due to the fact that there are no stanzas, its just an account of the pharaohs life. Enjambment is presented when Shelley writes, “nothing beside remains. Round the decay of that colossal wreck”, this shows that after Ozymandias’ rule and all of the achievements he made, time was even more powerful than the king and everything is gone and decaying. It is a form of irony because even a powerful king cannot control the damaging effects of
Therefore, he would likely think that Plato’s ideology is too optimistic, if not ignorant, and that one must have a realist viewpoint to survive this world. Machiavelli’s “The Prince” directs rulers to be practical and do basically anything to stay in power, even if it requires being evil. He would reject Plato’s opinions regarding rulers, since Plato believed that rulers must “ascend until they arrive at the good” (55) and “the State in which the rulers are most reluctant to govern is always the best and most quietly governed, and in the State in which they are most eager, the worst” (61). Plato's views directly contrast to Machiavelli’s views on the ruler, which is that the best and most effective ruler is one that does everything possible to maintain the power in which he holds. He is only worried about the attainable future and ideals, while Plato is more focused about the enlightenment of man, and the understanding of knowledge.
In “The Allegory of the Cave”, an excerpt from the Republic, Plato puts forth various ideas about the concept of conformity versus individuality. Referring specifically to paragraph 29 of the allegory, Plato points out that those quickest to follow are those most likely to be rewarded. Despite the pressure to conform to dominant ideas and styles of society, Plato concurs with Homer, eifhf, whom he quotes in the passage that creative and free thinking is the ideal to aim for. The most egregious example of conformity in thought and action occurs in countries without a free press where the government controlled media has complete power in presenting ideas deemed permissible. The ultimate type of conforming is the “thought police” in George Orwell’s 1984.
Unknown Darkness To write about things nobody likes to talk about or even mention in real life makes Nathaniel Hawthorne a great poet and a famous one at that. Hawthorne wrote so much about the American Colonies and how they lived their lives, he captured the smallest details of that time. Imagine being a writer in those times trying to find things to write about, in some of his poems you can see what a morbid mind he had, and it’s possibly due to his environment. Some of his Ancestors were direct descendants of Puritan judges. Which might have influenced his all famous “Scarlet Letter” and “The Minister’s Black Veil”, both these poems evoke each readers own personal judgments on human nature.
In #10 he asks us to ask ourselves what capacity we have within ourselves to deal with a particular situation, “If hardship comes to you, find endurance,” (p14) so that we might not let outside influences affect our own happiness, and that our happiness can be created only by our own judgments, perceptions, decisions and actions. Plato, on the other hand addresses happiness as attainable through the actions of the just man. Through Socrates he points out that the man who never falls sick is happier than the man who is cured from sickness, “Happiness surely does not consist in being delivered from evils, but in never having them,” which could be what Epictetus is suggesting – avoiding negativity all together – or at the very least, not perceiving these situations to be negative. All three of the Ancients address the function of human beings in some form or another. Aristotle says that we are considered to be good when we perform our function well, when we are excellent at our purpose in life.
Djabir Yaya Professor Cindy Linden Legacy of Western Society 9/21/2012 Iliad Essay Homer uses some poetic devices to demonstrate that praising a hero can do nothing, but lead to excessive pride and result in violence. Although, sometime people do things that are above normal standard, but we do not need to glorify them since this lead to conflict in our society. There are many ways we tend to glorify individual; sometime we give them trophies while other time we just considered them as an outliers and heroes. Homer uses simile and metaphor to demonstrate the superiority of his main character Achilles to human being, but make it difficult for modern readers to understand his point. Homer uses metaphor with the purpose of showing his main character arrogance by
Socrates then realized why the Oracle said he was most wise because he knew that he did not have this wisdom. Those that thought they did do not at all because it is only the God who is truly wise and Human wisdom is basically worthless. “The wisest amongst you, human beings, is anyone like Socrates who has recognized that with respect to wisdom he is truly worthless.” (23b) Socrates is separated from most because he does not claim to have a knowledge of value, he is not ignorant of his ignorance. Socrates first defends himself against Meletus’ charge of corrupting the youth by bringing him into question in front of the court. He proves Meletus wrong by showing how he cannot be the only person that is corrupting the youth while others improve the youth.
I think because we do not know what death brings that we use consequences even in death and after lives to set guidelines while we are alive. Socrates is using the myth of Er as a way to show that being just is the only way to show that being just is the only way to true happiness. Someone who refuses justice and lives a life as an unjust person, and fallows all his desires no matter who they might hurt, will suffer the consequences in the end. Socrates believes the Gods will love the just and hate the unjust. while the just are alive they seem to be the once who suffer.
As Plato may have expected, I pondered on the definition. I understand that piety is one of the highest virtues in the time of Plato because it was something that put family and society together through love and arbitrary rules that thought to be gods’ mindsets. However, this idea goes back to the argument that piety is what is approved by the gods which was negated by Socrates. Therefore, I was unable to come up with a clear answer. On the other hand, the other possibility is that there is no definite definition of piety that is common to all people.
Socrates strove to find the truth in love. Socrates follows Agathon, claiming ignorance for himself in the matter of eulogies; he doesn’t know how to make eulogies, only how to tell the truth. Being encouraged to go ahead with a truthful speech anyway, Socrates turns his attention to Agathon and uses him to display his method of leading students to knowledge through questioning. The logic goes like this: Love is love of some object, love desires that object, one desires only what one does not have (one can desire the continuance into the future of what one already has though), and those who love do not have the object they love/desire. Agathon has said ‘the gods made the world from a love of beautiful things for there was no love of ugliness’, so Eros must be love of beauty and not of ugliness, so Eros then lacks beauty and does not possess it.