All That Heaven Allows

Wordsworth began to question why, as a child, he once has the ability to witness the divinity of nature but as an adult that was disappearing. The speaker of the poem is an older man who is thinking back about his childhood’s glory and connection to the heaven. With frequent shift of rhyme scheme in the poem, Wordsworth makes this poem songlike and using metaphors and personification to emphasize his emotional ideas of pre-existence and to express the fact that time has stripped away much of…

In her poem #465, Emily Dickinson’s speaker allow the reader to experience an ironic reversal of conventional expectations of the moment of death in the mid-1800s, as the speaker finds nothing but an eerie darkness at the end of her life. Dickinson introduces the speaker’s earliest memory as the speaker is starting the journey of crossing over, however, the speaker’s expectations are not met, “I heard a Fly buzz- when I died-“(1). The reader is introduced to a fly buzzing around the room,…

mother who might have known more about the situation than she is letting on and could have even had a role to play in her husband’s death for all Hamlet knows at this point in time. The repetition with the word “villain” adds emphasis and shows the reader just how angry Hamlet is. He goes on to use a metaphor to compare his mind to a book: “And thy commandment all alone shall live within the book and volume of my brain” (1.5.109-110). He means the only content of his mind will consist of his…

In medieval times, religion was at the center of daily life of all individuals. The Christian Church formulated a purpose of life and death and preached these ideas. God was at the top in a place known as paradise or heaven, in between lie Earth, and beneath a fearful place of existence known as hell. In contrast, the modern worldview is shaped by human intellect and nature. Original sin was a concept imbedded in medieval minds and in modern times is a concept left only to believers. With…

another philosopher who followed Plato believed is the matter of the universe, form of the world, and the actuality and potentiality. Plato’s answer to the nature of the world was the two worlds scenario, where there is a material world which is all physical things we can touch, like ourselves as humans. The immaterial world also called the forms,…

Regarding immigration, Senator Sanders’s presidential plan reflects upon the themes and central ideas shown in the poem, The New Colossus. In this case, that America is open for anyone everywhere. Bernie resolution states that, “ all undocumented people who have been in the United States for at least five years to stay in the country without fear of being deported”.(Enforcement, par 2.) Bernie will do so through expanding the DACA and DAPA, developed by our current president, President Obama.…

and animals they needed to eat. The onset of agriculture and domestication allowed for sedentary lifestyles. These new innovations made day to day work less burdensome and thus allowed for people to ponder on the meaning of life and who created it all. Two ancient sedentary societies that focused on these questions prominently were the Zhou dynasty and the Classical India era. China had a religion but explored the philosophical questions more. India chose the religious route instead. Despite the…

song is to allow the readers to understand the story and character that Lana Del Rey portrays musically. Overall, the lyrics are meant to surround themes of pleasing a lover, nostalgia, and the gloom of aging. The point of view that…

In Q. 57, A.5, Aquinas discusses the knowledge of angels and states that angels are only able to know what God allows them to know: “yet so that the higher angels beholding the Divine wisdom more clearly, learn more and deeper mysteries in the vision of God, which mysteries they communicate to the lower angels by enlightening them. Some of these mysteries they knew from the very beginning of their creation; others they are taught afterwards, as befits their ministrations”. This ties in really…

by portraying the main character Leoba as a hero through her overall description, her ability to make the guilty confess, and her capability to control the weather to save the innocent. The descriptions and imagery that Rudolf provides of Leoba allow her to be viewed as a hero by the reader. “…Leoba’s reputation for learning and holiness had spread far and wide and her praise was on everyone’s lips” (Rudolf 109). Her entire life revolved around her religion, and this made her a hero in the…