Your Smile Fades In The Summer “Fate fell short this time, your smile fades in the summer, place your hand in mine, I'll leave when I wanna.” In the song, “Feeling This” by, Blink 182 it stresses the point of beautiful things not lasting forever. Because of the sinful nature of man, nothing in our world lives on forever no matter how beautiful it may be. In the poem “Nothing Gold Can Stay,” Robert Frost claims that nothing lasts forever. The poem “Nothing Gold Can Stay” tells a story about appreciating the things people have in life, and also about the reality of losing them. Throughout the poem the poet shares aspects of nature and life and how in an instant they will be gone.
For example, the narrator in Simon’s song says, “And I curse the life I’m livin’”, “And I wish that I could be Richard Cory.” In Robinson’s poem, the speaker comes to the conclusion that Richard Cory has everything a human being should have. Making them envious, saying, “To make us wish that we were in his place.” The speakers in both the poem and song seem to be envious of Richard Cory, but they never say anything bad about him. The poem and the song end the same way: Richard Cory went home “and put a bullet through his head”. They just end with no explanation as to why Richard Cory killed himself. Edwin Arlington Robinson’s poem and Paul Simon’s song have many similarities however, they also have differences.
"I killed a man it's not my fault he was sent by the Devil" A quote of a stuttering man that begins the new world full of excuses and mistakes. To be stamped a freak would an individual feel despair of hope? The Chrysalids, a novel by John Wyndham is a story of despair, despair where mistakes from the past is exerted into the future. Humans in the novel use alibis to excuse them from their offenses, and blame the ones that can not defend themselves. The characters all suffer due to the judgment and unacceptance that lead them to death or suicide in the future .
Yet to this day, no one seems any closer to an answer than when they first started. In consequence, when trying to compare two works with very different views of life and death, like Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God by Jonathan Edwards and Thanatopsis by William Cullen Bryant, one can find many differences, but also a few key similarities. To be specific, Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God shows that Jonathan Edwards believes that the sinful way man lives his life brings wrath from a god that they should fear, while Thanatopsis portrays a worldview in which death is welcomed and god is not considered. In his work Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, Edwards uses fear to manipulate his audience into repenting and turn to Christ. His puritan worldview led him to believe that “God has laid himself under no obligation, by any promise to keep any natural man out of hell” (Edwards 175).
This is his only “sin” to be shown throughout the poem and he does pay for it. This small token that will supposedly save his life causes him a knick of a cut from the King who turns out to be Lord Bertilak under the command of Morgan le Fay. This whole thing was a ruse in order to strike fear upon Queen Guinevere. Sir Gawain is deeply hurt that he has failed and proclaims to use the girdle as a reminder of his sins so that he shall never fall victim to them again. Gawain is hardest upon himself because he has such faith within higher powers and he felt as if he owed them his forever servitude.
To start an essay about two different characters handling their guilt in two completely different ways with ONE quote would be injustice, so I start it off with two; Said no better than the great but under read (maybe due to his Latin language that was never translated) playwright Plautus “Nothing is more wretched than the mind of a man conscious of guilt.” Not only conscious of guilt but having it constantly affect him, Reverend Dimmesdale cannot recover because he does not have the luxury of coming clean to the community. However, as the great Irish poet and writer Oscar Wilde once said, “It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.” Hester Prynne deals with her guilt by battling adversity and admitting her wrongs, ultimately being forgiven by society. Both Hester Prynne and Reverend Dimmesdale, of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel, The Scarlet Letter, have their share of guilt. However, the way’s they go, or are allowed to go, about dealing with it is greatly different.
The third stanza is about the defeated side of this battle. A dying man lay down when his "forbidden ear" heard the sounds of victory (line 10). He is hearing the sounds of celebration coming from the other team; sadly, these sounds were forbidden to his dying ear because not only had he lost the battle, but also he never will be able to triumph in success due to the fact that he is dying. Even though success is antithetical to failure this poem clearly illustrates that they depend on one another for the triumph of success to fully be appreciated. Ultimately, the paradox was an effective way of conveying the idea that success and failure are dependent on each
Why would God swipe at him with the dull and indiscriminate blow of a “lionlimb”? Why, then, maliciously look at him lying there with “bruised bones” and further torment him with gales of “tempest,” while he cowers, “heaped there,” wanting to escape but exhausted and with nowhere to run? Then the poet attempts an answer. The “tempest” was actually a harvest wind, shucking the “chaff” from the wheat to expose the kernels of goodness concealed within. In patient acceptance of divine vengeance, the poet has “kissed the rod” of God’s punishment—or rather, he corrects himself, he has kissed the hand that held that rod.
John Keats writes “What I have fears that I may have cease to be,” as a vehicle to express his concerns that encompass both time and death. Keats structures his poem as two major thoughts. He not only expresses his fear of dying before he can fulfill himself as a writer, but losing his love. Though Keats’ emphasizes his greatest fear of death, he offers his own resolution by asserting that love and fame lacks any importance. In the first four lines, Keats’ concern with the passing of time is indicated by the repetition of “when” at the beginning of each quatrain.
The siblance slows things down in this stanza as he realises that she isn't there anymore. Also, the siblance brings a haunting effect to the poem as now Emma will always be in his memory and the fact that Hughes did not take care of her before her death when she was ill will remain with him forever. His use of the question mark (?) show that he is confused and he doubts his sanity due to the guilt of neglecting her. In the last stanza, he says that he is struggling to move forward and he feels like the world has come to an end but the leaves are falling off trees, proving him wrong.