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Death As Inevitability In ‘Totem’ Plath once described this poem as “a pile of interconnected images like a totem pole” (Padel, 2013). Even the title resounds a spiritual significance. A totem is kinship related, and the interconnected images that compose the poetic totem explore an almost ritual, visceral blood relationship to death in which all life forms are implicated. Life, thus, is adopted as an emblem for death. Plath’s Totem is in fact a culmination of her fatalistic attitude, the…

From an early age, Hawthorne was regarded as a loner and a writer. This was originally his draw for the Brooks Farm community where he was first introduced to transcendentalism. Here he began to be influenced by the thoughts of others, and eventually even his own wife who was a transcendentalist herself. But what is transcendentalism, is it simply a belief, a practice, a religion, or a passage way to freedom? In truth, it is all of these combined. Transcendentalism is a escaped from the world…

One of the texts we’ve read that I connect to is “Upon the Burning of Our House” by Anne Bradstreet. In this poem, Bradstreet writes about her house burning down. However, rather than being consumed by despair, she views the loss of her possessions as an act of God that has reminded her of what is truly important. Bradstreet’s poem reflects her Puritan belief of simplicity in order to focus on God. Although I would never want to experience the loss Bradstreet did, I value the point that she…

War is a very controversial topic around the world, many people agreeing upon the need for war, but then others seeing the idea from an entirely different perspective. Sara Teasdale very blatantly puts her opinion out in her poem “There Will Come Soft Rain,” where she clearly paints out a beautiful scene to the reader, before abruptly connecting the peaceful flora and fauna she was describing, to this idea or war and the Earth. Teasdale’s poem, using familiar imagery, continuous structure, and…

‘’My last duchess’’ by Robert Browning is a poem that explores many themes, themes that were regarded as rather unusual in a time like the Victorian age . Many critics spoke highly of Browning’s techniques; he used diction, rhythm and symbol. Those were really evident in most of his dramatic monologues. According to the Victorian web, ‘’the last duchess’’ delves into the theme of marriage and relationships, since the dramatic monologue revolves around a painting of his previous wife and is…

Reflection Paper: Suttee or Sati: Victim or Victor In this article, the author firstly introduced Sati, "which is the death of a woman on her husband's funeral pyre"(p.175). The historical background is also given by the author. Sati seems to have a long history. "There have been several attempts to abolish the practice"(p.176), while it seems not successfully abolished. "Some instances still occur, even in the 1980s, and the esteem and devotion paid to the memories of women who have died in…

Judith Wright Analysis of the writing style: Judith Wright was a prolific Australian poet, critic and a short story writer, who published more than 50 books. Wright was also an uncompromising environmentalist and a social activist campaigning for Aboriginal land rights. She believed that a poet should be concerned with national and social problems. At the age of 85, just before her death, she attended in Canberra, a march for reconciliation with Aboriginal people. Wright's poems show a profound…

In the poem "Minerva Jones", by Edgar Lee Masters talks about how Minerva Jones died in the hands of a doctor. People hooting at her while she walks down the street. Minerva Jones is describe as a heavy body, cocked-eye, and rolling walk girl. What i learned about this individual was that she was named called for just walking down the streets. The people she talks about are the people who were hooting at her and the doctor that they left her with. She was left on her own fate with a doctor name…

Being and Time (1927) (Dasein’s Possibility of Being-a-Whole, and Being-towards-Death) Martin Heidegger A. Dasein • When it reaches its wholeness in death, it simultaneously loses the Being of its “there” • By its transition to no-longer Dasein, it gets lifted right out of the possibility of experiencing this transition and of understanding it as something experienced • Dasein can thus gain an experience of death, all the more so because Dasein is essentially Being with Others. In that case,…

Literature Paper Poetry can be very complex and even though it can vary and use different techniques to get the point across it may come to the same conclusion and meaning, and can also be interpreted differently. Poetry is meant to be understood in the reader's own way. Why I Hate Raisins, Hand-Me-Down Halloween, and My Brother at 3AM are about the struggles of living in the reservation, but use different style, syntax and tone. Why I Hate Raisins is a poem about the struggles of not having…