This is my first time I took some literature class and it was a wonderful experience to read all these literature and thematic chapters. I enjoy going through all stories, plays, dramas, essays and poems. I am still planning to go through some more literatures in the book even after the end of this semester. It is really hard to tell which part of the literature I like the most but if I had to chose one, I would choose the poems. It is because the poems are like liquid, which can be shaped in any shape and flows in any direction as per our own imagination.
We read three thematic chapters all together and there we covered many parts of the literature. Reading the thematic chapters, we generalize the broad and varied views of topics and ideas …show more content…
According to the book the word technology is “ the totality of the means employed to provide objects necessary for human sustenance and comfort”(p. 1033). The chapter portraits the misuse of the technology that is affecting the quality of human life through “The Birthmark,” “Videotape,” “When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer,” “The City Planners,” and “The Median Isn’t the Message”. In contrast to this, the chapter portraits the positive feelings, hopes and expectation through “maybe we’ll see…” and “TV Room at the Children’s Hospice”. On the other hand, we see the use of natural images in “I like to see it lap the Miles” to represent the discovery of technology, which gives us the feeling of excitement to have those technologies in our life. Through the poem like, “When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer,” the chapter deals with the difference between the scientific approach to learning, which is often concerned with that which can be measured in a controlled environment, and the humanities, which often consider human experiences and emotions that cannot be quantified (p. 1148). Overall this thematic chapter explores both pros and cons of the technology in human life through different literary …show more content…
In the story we can see how the husband lost his wife and a wife lost her life, seeking for a perfect beauty in his wife’s face, “you came so nearly perfect from the hand of Nature that this slightest possible defect, which we hesitate whether to term a defect or a beauty, shocks me, as being the visible marks of earthly imperfection” (p. 1034). The story conveys that nobody and nothing is perfect in this world so enjoy and be happy with what you have. Similarly the story tells us that life will be beautiful if we are able to accept the imperfectness and weakness of others, because the life is one of the gifts of Nature, and for sure the Nature, “in one shape or another, stamps ineffaceably on all her productions, either to imply that they are temporary and finite, or that their perfection must be wrought by toil and pain” (p.
We read three thematic chapters all together and there we covered many parts of the literature. Reading the thematic chapters, we generalize the broad and varied views of topics and ideas …show more content…
According to the book the word technology is “ the totality of the means employed to provide objects necessary for human sustenance and comfort”(p. 1033). The chapter portraits the misuse of the technology that is affecting the quality of human life through “The Birthmark,” “Videotape,” “When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer,” “The City Planners,” and “The Median Isn’t the Message”. In contrast to this, the chapter portraits the positive feelings, hopes and expectation through “maybe we’ll see…” and “TV Room at the Children’s Hospice”. On the other hand, we see the use of natural images in “I like to see it lap the Miles” to represent the discovery of technology, which gives us the feeling of excitement to have those technologies in our life. Through the poem like, “When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer,” the chapter deals with the difference between the scientific approach to learning, which is often concerned with that which can be measured in a controlled environment, and the humanities, which often consider human experiences and emotions that cannot be quantified (p. 1148). Overall this thematic chapter explores both pros and cons of the technology in human life through different literary …show more content…
In the story we can see how the husband lost his wife and a wife lost her life, seeking for a perfect beauty in his wife’s face, “you came so nearly perfect from the hand of Nature that this slightest possible defect, which we hesitate whether to term a defect or a beauty, shocks me, as being the visible marks of earthly imperfection” (p. 1034). The story conveys that nobody and nothing is perfect in this world so enjoy and be happy with what you have. Similarly the story tells us that life will be beautiful if we are able to accept the imperfectness and weakness of others, because the life is one of the gifts of Nature, and for sure the Nature, “in one shape or another, stamps ineffaceably on all her productions, either to imply that they are temporary and finite, or that their perfection must be wrought by toil and pain” (p.