Drowning

In "Drowning Shadows", Sam Smith shows issues about loneliness, desperation for a company, and hopes of finding love. The song addresses to a specific example of loss of innocence, feeling lost in its own life. Overall, "Drowning Shadows" is a heart-wrenching and poignant song, which is based on the issues of the actual world. The problems are related to youth. They have struggled with issues of being alone, disappointment, choosing the right way for them, or being not appreciated for people,…

Text Response 2 “The Art of Drowning” by Billy Collins is referring to how death will be perceived by the dying person themselves and society around them. Death is feared by almost everyone as it is a vast unknown openness yet when those around us pass away they are honored and respected, but they are quickly forgotten as time goes by. Rather they cherish their life or not everyone believes their life is essential to them. Memories and ideas will come to mind. The atrocious times and the…

Billy Collins’ poem, “The Art of Drowning,” describes to the reader how one’s death is insignificant to the rest of society. Through the sarcastic tone and rhetorical questions, the speaker informs the reader that life will go on after one’s death, and that the act of death flashing before one’s eyes is not a real experience; death is much simpler than that. In stanza one, the speaker presents his or her thoughts on death by saying “I wonder how it all got started, this business about seeing…

Anette is free from the materialistic pursuits that her sister imposes on her and the criticisms of her society, allowing her to fluidly weave in and out of relationships as a means of exercising her love. In Land of Love and Drowning, Anette explains, “See, me? I had never want what my sister want. Eeona want to have things. I had want to be had. I had want to be claimed. I ain shame, put it on my gravestone: Anette get loved up good. And that is what my life has been about. Only not as I…

Drowning into Natural World People think about their past, present and future every second of their life. They decide whatever is the best for themselves, and they move on with decisions they have made. The process of making that settlement is the hardest part because little do we know about our future. However, we make our own destiny by decisions we have made in the past. Walking into a trail and mountain has always helped me to think about everything widely open. In other words, I have…

It was a sunny fall morning in South Central, Los Angeles. I tossed as my alarm sounded for the third consecutive time. As I began to regain my cognition I realized that it was another day of school which I dreaded. Instantly I went into a state of gloom as in a matter of two hours I 'd be sitting in class counting down the hours until dismissal. I told my parents goodbye and scurried to the bus stop. I walked down the street and to the corner where the bus would arrive. As it approached the…

Drowning i should have known I should have been alerted… I should have known. I regret it and I am reminded of the mistakes I have made every second of my “life”. My life is over and only at 13 years old, I am dead, done, fried. Now all I have to do is wait and sit, all day. Today was just a normal day where you miss the bus because I hit snooze about five times, and then hope that time will come to a halt in order for the idea of getting out of bed to be an illusion. So, I did exactly…

There is a positive correlation between the rate of ice cream an individual consumes and the rate of drowning deaths. The are many factors to this correlation. Each individual may vary so for my experiment I decided to get a sample of the population. My sample will only consist of males and females between the age of 13-19 in a local neighborhood. The independent variable will be the consumption of ice cream. The amount of time spent after consuming X amount of ice cream can also be a…

One of Owen's talents is to convey his complex messages very proficiently and demonstrates that here because without the use of the emotive language, the scene could not be set. In the fourth stanza, it reads, " If in some smothering dreams you could pace/behind the wagon that the we flung him in", here Owen is suggesting that the horror of the scene that he has witnessed, is forever eternalised into his dreams. Although this soldier died an innocent, the war allowed no time to give his…

Drowning. If the situation presented itself, could you stop yourself, simply by swimming? What if you were intoxicated? Had drug problems or medical conditions? Good Morning parents, teachers, members of the education system, and concerned people of the general public. My name is Erin McDonnell and I will be talking to you about how there should be mandatory swimming lessons and water safety education taught in both primary and secondary schooling. Firstly, the roll-out of compulsory lessons…