Divine simplicity

England ports also enjoyed this high-living merchant aristocracy. The preaching of leaders of simplicity continued even though their stance became more and more unpopular among the majority. The Puritans, as well as the later generations of simple livers, faced the problem of children being less inclined to live simply. For many of the younger generations growing up in relative comfort and stability, there was no real need for simplicity. The Puritans also faced the problems of growth in population and complexity. This along with urbanization, commercialism, and cosmopolitanism were leading the introduction of diversity into a relatively homogeneous social order (19). The constant flow of ships coming into ports brought new goods, ideas, and people. During this time of social change, the Puritan ethic became the minority. The appeal for the public to practice simplicity was seen by many as a “rhetorical cloak employed by those enjoying elevated status and material wealth to hide their covert selfish interests (19).” The attempt of the Great Awakening to bring back the traditional way of living…

Did you ever have a friend growing up that made it his or her ultimate goal to gross you out? Wether it be by cracking their fingers, telling jokes, or tortures through smelly socks, it is guaranteed that you did not appreciate when your your friend teased you about such matters. Most people as they get older they mature and grow out of this kind of humor. What if I told you there was a man that never grew up. A man that became a director to channel his talent into what he considers an art form.…

image for hate and fire for desire. Robert Frost’s poem, “Fire and Ice,” is meant to be a witty response to a folkish claim about the end of the world. By adding to folk wisdom his own experience of two emotions, desire and hate, Frost begins a speculation about the relationship between emotions and their ultimate consequences. Although the simplicity of Frost’s poem does not show the complexity of desire of the destructive power of hate, an examination of the relationship of desire and the…

California, Frost moved to New England at age eleven and came to identify himself as a New Englander. That self-identification would become a staple of his later works as he would invest “in the New England terrain” and make use of the “simplicity of his images” (Norton Anthology, p. 727) accompanied by uncomplicated writing to give his poems a more natural feel. Frost’s poems were generalized by certain types: nature lyrics, which described a scene or event, dramatic narratives or…

It is like his way of becoming a better person by seeing the consequences of doing wrong. Dante also seems to be having a lot of hatred toward his enemies. He may feel like he will never be satisfied without knowing what became of his enemies. Dante created his own personal hell. He made a story to achieve his own enlightenment. He decided where people should go and what crimes he thinks are worse than others. At some points in the story he even goes as far as to justify or pity some of the…

In the modern contemporary society, copying from another person, whether it be on a test or any other assignment, is frowned upon. However, there aren’t any consequences for this act in the period of time depicted in Inferno, by Dante Alighieri, as this wasn’t recognized as a punishable sin. During this period, the deepest and darkest parts of Hell was home to thieves and liars, where their souls were lost and tortured for eternity. One who cheats does so by committing thievery as they steal…

Fear as a Propaedeutic (Dante’s use of fear as a propaedeutic) Dante Alighieri wrote a famous book called Dante’s Divine Comedy in the 1300s that is still used in classrooms today. The most famous text of Dante’s Divine Comedy is an epic poem called Dante’s Inferno. In this epic poem Dante makes a trip through Hell, purgatory, and heaven. Virgil serves as Dante’s guide through the underworld. Dante uses Virgil as his guide because Dante says that Virgil is the best poet of all time. Virgil and…

T.S Eliot once said, “Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different.” Eliot 's poem, “The Waste Land” (1922), embodies the essence of this quote; take from what is already there, and place his own updated interpretation for the modern audience to provide their own temporal relativist view on top of the already layered meaning of the original work quoted within Eliot 's poem. The…

The Odyssey and Dante’s Inferno The Odyssey is an epic written by Homer. This poem is based on a love story that describes the escapades of Odysseus and his son Telemachus. Homer tells of the hardships and struggle Odysseus encountered on his way back home to his family after the war. Homer tells of Odysseus’s expeditions as he was travelling home as a hero after the Trojan War. Odysseus faced many challenges and struggles from battling Poseidon, the creatures in the sea and battling the suitors…

to get his message through to the reader, he first describes/lays out the different types and severities of sins. In his poem, Dante writes, " 'Wherefore in such guise Are they condemned?’ He answer thus return’d: ‘Wherefore in dotage wanders thus thy mind, Not so accustom’d? or what other thoughts Possess it? Dwell not in thy memory The words, wherein thy ethic page describes Three dispositions adverse to Heav’n’s will, Incont’nence, malice, and mad brutishness, And how incontinence the least…