“The venerable woods--rivers that move In majesty, and the complaining brooks that make the meadows green; and, poured round all, old ocean's gray and melancholy waste,-- are but the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man.” Images of graves, tombs, and coffins are all over this poem and because of this readers have dark images. The poem talks about a couch “Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch about him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.” The poem ends with an image of not being afraid of death. People should think of death as something wrapping yourself in a blanket, being comfortable and having a dream-filled sleep.…
The plot of Stand by Me is the emotional loss that the Gordie Lachance feels in relation to the death of his best friend, Chris Chambers, and how the friendship was strengthened then torn apart through a childhood quest. The film’s use of chronological order to tell the story moves from opening scene, to a flashback of events that then leads to the climax, and a fall of action. During the flashback, I see the train tracks as the path of order for the story and the resulting plot. The train track allows for stops along the way where the story develops through lighting, music, and time and space references. Lighting the mood with shadows or bright light brings the audience closer into the characters emotions.…
This theme of natural life after death in Wolf Children differs from Grave of the Fireflies’ typical motif of the beauty of an instant before the light…
Aldo Leopold was a professor at the University of Wisconsin who published A Sand County Almanac in 1949. He wrote about nature in different ways throughout his book. The writing varies from the landscape to the animals. He describes different areas he has been to; these range from near his home in Wisconsin down to the New Mexico and Arizona area. Leopold uses a unique style of writing for this time period.…
The forest represents the fear of the Puritan society: a place where darkness and disorder exists and a place where people like Hester Prynne and Dimmesdale can be their true selves or even hide more secrets. Hester describes the forest as “black and dense” with “imperfect glimpses of the sky” yet, she also describes it as the “moral wilderness in which she had so long been wandering” (170). She talks about how “overhead was a gray expanse of cloud, slightly stirred, however, by a breeze; so that a gleam of flickering sunshine might now and then be seen at it’s solitary play”, inferring that it is a dark and scary place from the outside but has many benefits to others like her (170). The forest represents the Puritans fear (the unknown) and that is what it means to them, but to people like Hester and Dimmesdale, it is a place of hope and represents who they secretly are. They can only be themselves outside of the society, which gives them a closer connection to nature.…
Roethke describes the cellar’s environment as “dank as a ditch,” (1) which gives the feeling of a place that is uncomfortable. B. The poet goes on to name items that have distinctive smells, “leaf-mold, manure, and lime” (9), and adds adjectives such as “rank, dank, silo-rich, and slippery” to intensify the images (8). C. Describing the shoots coming out of the bulbs as “like tropical snakes” (Roethke 5) gives the reader a visual image of all the yellow shoots dangling together.…
In diverse manners, artists often successfully reflect, and display the impact and relationship humans have with the environment. This allows for society and the general population to further explore and understand their place within both the natural and unnatural world. Artists such as Jill Orr, Lin Onus and Andy Goldsworthy successfully reciprocate this by responding to the physical environment- and situations they are positioned in- through their creations of thought provoking art. These three particular artists use various forms of media- photography, painting and installation- in order to portray the central message. In short, through diverse manners, artists reflect and display the impact human beings have on and in the environment.…
Tyburn, England was notorious for its “Tyburn Tree.” Countless people have been hanged there. Murderers, highwaymen, arsonists, and robbers are few of the many criminal variants who had their lives brutally ended. The gallows, still in use, are said to be a shuddersome place that would raise one’s hairs. Several supernatural occurrences have been reported by those who pass by the defunct execution ground.…
In the Elephant Man, Anthony Hopkins, who plays Treeves, uses kindness to Merrick and emphasis, pause and confidence while talking to Bytes to add to relationships and mood, which greatly increases tension suspense making the movie significantly better and developing Treeves character by adding humanity. The first way Anthony Hopkins adds to Treeves character is by emphasizing specific words, and pausing, while talking to Mr Bytes. While discussing Merrick’s living arrangements Anthony says “It seems Mr Merrick has suffered a pretty bad Fall… and he is my patient now.” Through emphasis and pause Treeves lets Mr Bytes and the Audience know that he knows that Merrick was beat and did not fall.…
The Douglas Hay article ‘property, authority and the criminal law’ Hay’s chapter in ‘Albion’s Fatal Tree’ focuses on the argument that the Hanoverian period saw the development of the ‘Bloody Code’ due the increase of capitalism. There were several different laws that were put in place for the ‘Bloody Code’ this there to remove criminals out of the country and out of society. The bloody code imposed the death penalty for over two hundred offences. Those in court faced with this were expected to defend themselves with only the assistance of the judge. Douglas Hay expresses that the criminal law was concerned primarily with authority and secondly with the protection of property.…
Brandi Harbaugh Professor Boudreaux English 255 Section 00 19 February 2018 Seeing in an Unusual Light The wind howled through the house, sounding as if voices were calling to the man inside. He stood abruptly and ran out the door, its’ hinges screaming as they were pushed to their limit, into the chilled night air. He heard the voices of the wind; the bumping of the rain on the forest floor.…
Blood sucker, dead, predator: These are all words that can describe a vampire. There have been several vampire stories throughout the years. Each author takes and gives them different characteristics but they usually are universally described as a creature that was once human that somehow has returned from the dead and preys on living humans by drinking their blood to stay alive. Dr. John William Polidori, an English writer and physician, is said to have created the first written vampire story in his short story The Vampyre: A Tale.…
The trees symbolize many different things. This Macabre adds suspense to the story because it foreshadows who is going to die next. For example, “found most of the tall trees marked with the name of some great mand of the colony. ”(Irving, 92) Also, in the story they described the trees as dark and lonely. The trees were different sizes.…
The colloquial idiom to “kill time” is commonly heard in passing. Whether it is a baby’s first steps, a first car, or even a marriage ceremony, a communal ideology remains that life contains nothing more than waiting for the momentous events. However, this theory of “killing time” whilst waiting for the future also kills any chances of obtaining a purposeful life. Monotony has become an epidemic in today’s society, leaving thousands feeling trapped and vainly seeking some shred of meaning in their life. The great American poet, Robert Frost, gives unique insight on the recognizable struggle between balancing the demands of society with one’s personal search for purpose.…
The author of “On Natural Death” by Lewis Thomas begins his essay by being lighthearted about death and progressively gets more into depth with the aspects of death for different living things and whether or not they detect pain. This is to objectify the fact that death is destined for all living things and that it shouldn’t be planned or feared but instead, it should be accepted. The first strategy Lewis Thompson uses is denouncing books about death. Lewis emphasizes that death is becoming planned with there being “so many new books about dying” placed next to “the health diet and home repair paperbacks”. Lewis insinuates that the topic of planned death is considered ordinary to where it’s placed next to everyday topics and accepted by society who doesn’t think twice about it.…