Albatross

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, by T. S. Eliot, perfectly captures the plight of the modern man. This poem sheds insight into the conflicted and insecure psyche of Mr. Prufrock, who, despite dwelling in the upper echelon of society and attending fancy galas with “women who [talk] of Michelangelo,” cannot overcome his own inhibitions and thinks of himself as nothing more than “a pair of ragged claws scuttling across the floors of silent seas” (958-959). T.S. Eliot utilizes a stream of…

The two poems, “The Seafarer” and “The Wanderer” have many similarities. Both poems are about a tremendous journey to find their place in heaven. “The Seafarer” and “The Wanderer” have their hardships and they have loneliness and sorrow throughout their journeys. The poems both use words like “icy” and “wintry,” which shown how hard the journey was. The Wanderer is forced to wander on the journey to heaven while The Seafarer choose to go on a journey. The Wanderer was forced to go on the…

Symbolism is a literary device that plays a big part in making a piece of poetry more interesting, well, it at least helps to catch the reader's attention. Samuel Coleridge uses this kind of representation in, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner". This poem is about an Ancient Mariner who stops a wedding guest on his way to a wedding reception with two friends. As the guest tries to get away from the Ancient Mariner, he pressures him to listen to his tale. In “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”, the…

Red tailed hawk The red tailed hawk is a very interesting bird, and fun to learn about some of its characteristics. It is a predictor so it will hunt other animals for food. It’s name basically specifies what it looks like color wise. The reason it is called the red tailed hawk and some of its characteristics. The red tailed hawk was named because of its red tail. This bird…

Some believe that after death there is only one of three places you can go: Heaven, hell, and the one that is least spoken about is purgatory. Heaven is paradise while hell’s suffering is interminable. Purgatory is similar to hell in one aspect which is the suffering, but it is not infinite. A person goes there if they were not necessarily bad nor good. It’s a place where a person can be expiated for their sin. In Pedro Paramo, Juan Rulfo uses Comala as a symbol for purgatory. Juan Rulfo uses…

In The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, an “ancient Mariner” stops an innocent Wedding-Guest in the midst of his procession into the wedding hall with his “glittering eye,” and begins to tell the young man a story about a ship and the disastrous journey the Mariner takes. A theme of storytelling develops throughout the poem, and the moral of the story conveys that: “Storytelling, if the rhetoric is robust enough, can propagandize the victim, and make him or her perceive…

In (love song, with two goldfish), Grace Chua presents both the build up to and the breakup of the relationship between to goldfish. However, through direct parallels with human behaviour, Chua represents the flaws on the human condition through an extended metaphor, personifying goldfish. Chua particularly represents the mindlessness of humans, our ingenious emotions and the way we feel despair. Whilst Chua is using fish, she draws direct parallels to human emotions and behaviours, through her…

Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote The Rime of the Ancient Mariner during the Romantic Period where people were driven away from reason and driven toward the use of imagination. In accordance with the period, Coleridge sought to establish poetic faith in his writing, a willing suspension of disbelief (Tomko 244). Through the use of literary devices, Coleridge succeeds in using imagination and making his encounter with supernatural forces, namely the appearance of the Night-mare Life-in-Death and the…

Cole’s emotions during the altercation between himself and the spirit bear may be illustrated through makeup. When Cole encountered the Spirit Bear he overestimated his strength and got involved in a battle he was incapable of winning. Cole was a confident character, throughout the novel he is depicted as seeming fearless, mighty and always in control. The image he presented towards the reader was an individual who always got his way. He pushed all limits receiving minor consequences and…

Albatross anchor has grown exponentially and now employs one hundred and thirty people. Their one location/facility is situated on twelve acres of land located in a rural suburb of Small town, USA. The manufacturing plant and the main office are located in…