Eternity

There are a vast number of poems that vary from overall message, level of difficulty, and use of literary devices. Poets will manipulate these factors to aid them in the process of creating a product that will embody their purpose. As a result of different mindsets and individual expression, certain poems are more difficult to analyze than others. To explore this concept it is necessary to analyze poems from each spectrum of difficulty. The poems “Messy room” by Shel Silverstein, “The Reason Why…

Dante’s Divine Comedy has a focus on sin and throughout the poem he has the benefit of seeing the punishments for all the different divisions of sin. Before even seeing the punishments for particular sins, in canto I Dante is climbing a hillside and winds up spotting three beasts before him that have a more significant meaning than just instilling fear in Dante. The three beasts, the leopard, lion and she-wolf, all represent different things in what is to be seen during Dante’s journey. In this…

When considering both marriage and death, the common word ‘eternity’ might come to mind. One is thought of as an eternal bonding, and the other is viewed as an unending state of rest. Through the symbolism, personification, and imagery used in “Because I Could Not Stop for Death,” Emily Dickinson portrays the speaker’s death by illustrating an eternal marriage. The first quatrain starts with the speaker recalling the time that she is visited by Death. She then elopes with Death and his…

Myself and many fellow Christians can closely understand what Piper means. Any reader studying in the book of Romans feels a sense of inner revival, assurance, and strengthening of their relationship with God. In particular, chapter eight stands out. This chapter does so much to describe and pronounce God’s goodness and love, and packs these with many indescribably amazing truths. When I read this chapter its message seems to travel to the depths of my soul. It tells us of life through the…

Consider the following statement: “Death is a greater tragedy when it happens to a human than when it happens to a wolf. The mistake is to think that is follows from this that human lives are superior. That we lose more when we die is not an indication of our superiority; on the contrary, it is a clue to our damnation.” (203) In this passage, Rowlands is challenging the notion of superiority of humans to animals based on lose of the future. In order to understand this, we must look at the…

As wrapped up in earthly life as humanity tends to be, even Christians can forget that only a fraction of their lives will be spent in this fallen world, while eternity still awaits them. Every day, every person has the decision to choose Christ or evil, both in their hearts and in their outward actions. By becoming the hands and feet of Christ and sharing His word, Christians can help non-believers turn their lives toward God. However, people also have the opportunity to dissuade others from…

Hercules shows no mercy to Atlas as he holds the world for eternity. Lastly, Hercules showed selfishness when he made Atlas hold the world again. Atlas was a person who trusted Hercules to hold the world, but Hercules ended up betraying Atlas. Hercules agreed to swap places with Atlas (holding the world) so Atlas could get 3 golden apples for Hercules. However, Hercules used Atlas' trust to trick him into holding the world for another eternity. Hawthorne states in passage 1, "Hercules has agreed…

A Examination of the Shock of Death: Emily Dickinson 's’ “Because I Could Not Stop for Death” and “I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died” “Because I Could Not Stop for Death” and “I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died” are both poems written by Emily Dickinson, the former in 1863 and the latter in 1862. According to Christopher Nesmith writer of “Dickinson 's I Heard a Fly Buzz” “Many of Emily Dickinson’s poems are enigmatic, but perhaps none baffles its readers more than ‘I Heard a Fly Buzz-When I Died”…

streaming around it's only crevasse with the blood of the dead ones. A small, hungry child digs through the thick sand, looking for a small crumb of food, but only to find the unsatisfying, disgusting, horrid worms that dig through the underground for eternity, The child stuffs the worms into their yellow, slimy, rotten mouth and smacks their lips together, with yellow teeth flying everywhere, guts squirting from torn, bloody creatures that suffer a sickly, awful death. The buildings. The…

Because I could not stop for Death: A TPCASTT Essay In the blank verse, first-person poem, “Because I could not stop for Death,” by Emily Dickinson, the speaker pensively describes her carriage ride with Death to the realm of eternity, hinting at a deeper meaning of spirituality using visual imagery of a schoolhouse, a field of grain, and a setting sun to represent her mortality and the symbolism of the daylight fading, representing the woman’s transition into the next world, and additionally…