Grim Reaper

In “Evening Hawk,” Robert Penn Warren sets an eerie scene of a God-like hawk flying through day and night while silently judging human error and the concept of time. Through Warren’s grim diction contrasting the narrator’s awe filled tone, Warren shows a unique perspective of death paired with religious allusions and death imagery to illustrate the need for religious guidance due to human error and sin. Warren starts the poem with the God-like hawk high in the sky, symbolizing heaven, but,…

university was outraged at this. This was nothing more than a harmless fun costume idea that was not intended to be racist at all until the media blew it up like an atomic bomb. How has wearing a costume become offensive? This is like saying wearing a grim reaper costume with a cloak is offensive to Muslim women wearing a burqa. How has something so little and harmless sparked so much outrage in America…

death, driven by the grim reaper himself” (137). In this paragraph, Senghor used repetition to emphasize Jay’s state of loneliness and how he was left to answer his own concerns. In the sentence of “galloping chariots of death…” (137), Jay is being dramatic by associating a basic understanding with a dark image. He’s been living in constant fear after the incident, carrying a gun everywhere he goes, in case of “emergencies.” The chariot of death symbolizes the car and the grim reaper represents…

Humanity is driven by instinctual urges, held back by moral and ethical ideologies. We have evolved as a species and have implored reasoning to escape our beastly nature. With our distance from these attributes with civilizations, art, and advanced forms of arithmetic and philosophy. These advances only mask these attributes found within us, and Edgar Allen Poe is able to express our true humanity through his literary works. The Cask of Amontillado, by Edgar Allen Poe, emphasizes how human…

Is it Catullus' own irony coming to light here in the invocation of concordia, which will be all-too-absent from the marriage, or is it ironic prophecy on the part of the Parcae? It is hard to imagine the latter, given the triple reference we have already seen to their truth, and the refrain’s reminder that they are not just foretelling the events they sing of, but actively spinning them right then and there. Why go to such great lengths to highlight the truth of their song, only to have them…

Poverty” campaign. It was a campaign of legislation and social services, aimed at eliminating poverty in the United States. The terrible truth of the matter is, we've been fighting the War on Poverty for 54 years and still nothing has changed. The grim reaper is, we are losing this war on poverty and that includes…

war. Furthermore, the image helped increase awareness towards the war and increased public pressure to end the war. Finally, the heartbreaking images touch the soft spots of many military families and those who have lost loved ones thanks to the grim reaper that is…

The Society’s Viewpoint. Gun control generally refers to laws or policies that regulate the manufacture, sale, transfer, possession, modification, or use of firearms in order to control crime and reduce the harmful effects of violence. This topic has been a widely controversial topic throughout the United States for quite some time now, whether it should be considered illegal or not. There are many articles either for against, and neutral about this topic. The articles are different in many…

Darkness is displayed in many ways, including hopelessness and death, but the Great Depression shows the finest of it. This horrible time had a negative effect on people’s thinking, such as actual depression and the feeling of loss. Sounds can remind people of death as well. On the contrary, even reading words can scare anyone to death. O’brother Where Art Thou directed by Joel and Ethan Coen, and The Odyssey written by Homer and translated by Robert Fagles are arts that use words and sounds to…

Humans often find themselves ignorant of time’s passage and the consequences of their earthly errors. Robert Penn Warren’s poem, “Evening Hawk,” explores this concept and presents the idea that nature, as represented by the hawk, possesses a harsh judgement of humanity and its mistakes. The opening of the poem introduces an image of a hawk to observe the passage of time and human fallacies. Warren’s use of vivid language, both literal and figurative, conveys the mood and meaning of the work as a…