Generation

To whoever decides to read this, These poems I’ve written weren’t written with any particular aim other than to write. To many, this may seem absurd or even erroneous, but that’s the truth behind each poem I’m submitting, they’re spontaneous without any exact aim other than to dispose of an emotion or answer a question resulting from my musings. These are by no means a written “Starry Night” or a mosaic from ancient Greece but each is more of a basic sketch for the reader to find their own…

Lessons about meaning and belief are replaced with experiments, documentation and supporting evidence of claims. The message they are hearing is that, “…science and religion are at odds…” (Frye). The idea of transcendence is lost to the Millennial generation, and along with it went the magic and mystery that accompanied religious experience. Secularization has virtually eliminated, “…coherent symbolic universe of meanings...” (Unbelief, page 74). Also vanished is the understanding of…

revealing, and dangerous it was within the contexts of society. It shattered walls, gave a voice to the vagabonds, free-spirits, artists, and erotic people of not only America but the world. It was these people that Ginsberg called “the best minds of my generation” and “Howl” is an ode to them, as they served as the inspiration and subjects of the piece. Although those who sold, purchased, and published “Howl” were initially arrested…

Jake and Brett’s Quests for Happiness The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway is a classic Lost Generation novel that is set several years after the conclusion of the Great War. Characters in this novel are part of the Lost Generation, those who appear “disillusioned by the staggering number of WWI casualties” (De Greef, Worksheet). Both having returned from war, Jake, the narrator, and Brett, the main female character, epitomize this sense of disorientation and desire for joy. Throughout The Sun…

Obscene America: An Analyzation of Howl In 1955, beat writer Allen Ginsberg produced a free-verse poem titled Howl. Ginsberg’s Howl is a poem that embodies the conditions of America, specifically how Ginsberg viewed them to be. Being a beat writer, Ginsberg was completely aware of the unjust and superficial ideals America was projecting. Not only, but Ginsberg’s poem was completely uncensored, real, and raw while addressing these issues. For instance, his poem was so uncensored, real, and raw…

but also their land. Incompletion of this unit I would like to know if some of aspects of Indigenous culture was taken and blended to the main stream Australian culture we have today. Incompletion of this unit I hope to know more about the stolen generation, the reasons why they were…

Over time with generations passing, this long, black beard, beret wearing look started to fade out within the hipster community. The effect of this created what we know of hipsters today, the millennial version of the 1940’s jazz musicians. There was a big jump within this…

Wilfred Owen was one of the most significant poets of the First World War. Owen encompassed the cruel conditions faced by soldiers and observed the true nature of the battlefield. He expressed his ideas through his compositions in a variety of poems such as ‘Dulce et Decorum Est’ and ‘Anthem for Doomed Youth.’ Owen’s perspectives on human conflict were initially represented throughout his encounters amid ‘The Great War.’ Owen’s poetry moves from traditional formulaic forms to a more violent…

Stress can affect anyone at anytime by any situation. Stress is a function of the body to help it with difficult situations, however too much stress for long periods of time can weaken the body. Long-term stress can diminish life quality and weaken mental and physical health. Certain things can cause stress. But, what exactly causes stress? The definition…

Nuclear power. Worth is or not? Energy is what makes the human life function. Humanity has depended on electricity ever since “Thomas Edison invented the light bulb in 1880”. Ever since then humans have been inventing and finding new ways to make life easier for themselves. The one thing that all these ideas have in common is the use of electricity. The main sores of electricity are coal and oil. Coal and oil is an ideal power sores, but the only problem is it is not renewable and one day will…