Beautiful

Poe's poem Helen is a very beautiful woman, Angelic even, she makes people feel safe and where they belong. We know this because Poe is comparing her to a ship, “Nicean barks of yore”, he clarifies this in lines 3-5 when he says “gently”, “bore”, and “weary way-worn wanderer”. Poe is not comparing her to the ship itself but to where the ship will take the tired warrior, and that is his home or “native shores”, home being a warm welcoming place. Helen is expressed as beautiful and angelic in…

subjectively universal. Hume defines the standard of taste as “a rule, by which the carious sentiments of men may be reconciled; at least, a decision, afforded, confirming one sentiment, and condemning another.” (268) If a person said “this flower is beautiful” and I did not agree upon him, then to reconcile is a way to compromise. However,…

In this essay, I will compare the images of the “Sea of Beauty” and of the sun in the allegory of the cave, explaining what each refers to, how it works for Plato, and what putting these images side by side reveals about Plato’s understanding of philosophy. The “Sea of Beauty” that Plato often refers to is the final step in his “Ascent of Love.” His “Ascent of Love” is related in the context of education and philosophy. Plato believes that one can only ascend to the “Sea of Beauty” through…

trophy deer mounted with an old hunting rifle right below it. It was a beautiful head piece which had ten points in total five on each side making it almost a perfect rack. The rifle below the deer head is very old as the wooden stock shows its age as it is beginning to crack. I walked out onto the deck which had been rebuilt since last year. Which was once old dried out wood is now new dark brown floor boards with beautiful white railings. The deck wrapped the entire back side of the house…

lives. In Brave New World the state uses many tactics to keep their citizens youthful and beautiful, the state administers certain drugs to the citizens each day to maintain their youth and beauty until they reach 60 and die, so that they don't have to experience old age. They also genetically modify their embryos to be the perfect amount of beauty for each of their social classes, keeping everyone beautiful and young. The narrator in the first chapter sees the director walk into the room and…

more than ½ the compliments given to the characters have to do with appearance. With the focus on beauty, young girls start to feel that being beautiful on the outside is what they are best at and what they should be good at. As they are being shown in these films the more they start to think that the being a female stereotype is what makes them beautiful. Girls are not born liking a pink dress. At some point we teach them. So the big question is where they get these ideas about being girls.…

new or alien aesthetic categories.” In this one can see that not everything that one finds unappealing is ugly. In fact what one fines ugly is really beautiful in a since. This is what Shapiro is talking about when he says, “sometimes the object of beauty is not just unexpected” Another person to look at when determining if this painting is beautiful or not is Umberto Eco. In Eco’s On Ugliness, he says “Attributions of beauty or ugliness are often due not to aesthetic but to socio-political…

remembers how her great-grandmother how she was considered to be beautiful even though she didn't fit into the mold that the "outside world" had for what is beautiful. Beauty was considered to be much more than just a pretty face in the old Pueblo time. This essay is a piece of literature that every women should read to let them know what true beauty really is not just what the size 0 supermodel is being paid to say what is beautiful. Silko does an amazing job on uses stories her…

illustrate the overarching idea. In the first line, Frost writes “nature’s first green is gold”. Natures first green in the year is typically found in the spring after a winter. After winter “the first green”, (and the first indication of spring) is beautiful, almost as precious as gold. Frost goes on to say that it's “her hardest hue to hold”. Indicating the difficulty with something remaining continually precious. Robert Frost is referencing the seasons is “her early leaf’s a flower”. The use…

In assessing a performance, I approached it much as an adjudicator for a University Interscholastic League One Act Play contest is charged. I begin by reading the play, which I was vaguely familiar with and possibly considering as an option for my students. I find when I choose a play (especially for contest) I spend more time with it, in pre-production researching and preparing, and it is usually a longer season with the contest play. (Most shows go up in four to six weeks and run for one to…