Half-Life 2

It is incredible to imagine how quickly your life can change. In a twinkling of an eye all could be destroy and lost in the past, with a choice that we have to make in order to change our future. Today is the funeral of my father, the person I love the most, the most important man in my life. In the morning when I woke up anything looks different, it was a normal day with a sad gray sky as Lima normally has. But for me something disappeared, a piece of my heart was broken, the person who used…

only takes up half a page, it carries a great story. I loved reading it and taking it apart to find out what it truly means. What was very interesting was the way it connects with the world we live in which the connection is death. Death is the end of the line for us and the way Wadsworth tells the last minutes of the travelers life and what happens to the world around that is truly amazing. The meaning of this poem is that death is inevitable, it's the finish line of everyone's life, and…

For countless years and through innumerable works, writers have attempted to overcome one of humanity’s greatest fears: mortality. One of the earliest examples is William Shakespeare’s Macbeth, in which Macbeth claims that life is little more than a shadow of impending doom, and that each person merely plays his part until he is no more. Centuries later, Robert Frost incorporates a similar theme on the subject of death in his poem “‘Out, Out -’”. Unlike many of the other writers who have…

effect, a contagious hospital serves as an implied complication which mirrors the mood present throughout the first few stanzas. Williams continues to unfold the scenery with a description of the sky including “the surge of the blue/mottled clouds” (2-3). First and foremost, the verb of the clouds, “surge,” performs the task of carrying the subject forward, but not in the familiar fashion of clouds known to so many; usually clouds gently glide across the sky, but these clouds “surge” which…

own life. If that’s the case, then why are few rich and successful, whereas the majority are suffering and are impoverished? In a sense we are all human beings therefore we should all be treated in an equal manner and be given equal opportunities in life. Reality however is a killer for we find that society, which was initially used as a survival technique by earliest ancestors, has more of a say in our lives then we do ourselves. Makes me wonder do we really have a say on what we do in life aka…

With the word ‘Passion’ Drayton depicts that he is suffering very much and he does not know what do with his feelings. He uses the oxymoron ‘pulse failing’ to symbolize life and death (Drayton, 1593). Indirectly that could symbolize hope, as he is hoping that his long-lost love is still alive. The last two stanzas are a heroic couplet, a couplet or rhyming iambic pentameters forming a rhythmical unit. The significance…

the color black, in which both colors associates with death. While she is “grey,” the “fire” (line 2) next to her is red. The combination of the two creates an image where his previous lover’s body gets cremate. The reason being that he directly presents her with…

Curt Lemon dies in Vietnam as “he took a peculiar half step, moving from shade into bright sunlight, and the booby-trapped 105 round blew him into a tree”- there’s no other reason why he dies, there’s no message to glean (O’Brien 79). According to the “How to Tell a True War Story” chapter of Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried, a true war story is amoral, sickening, beautiful, and seemingly infinite. “The Soldier” by Rupert Brooke claims to be a war story, despite failing to reach most of…

he has for the future. He starts feeling as though he has not accomplished what he had hoped to by this point in his life, and he is somewhat regretful. He sees that he cannot change the past, and though he is as close to death as he has ever been, it is still far away and there is still time for him to fulfill more in life. In the first part of the poem, he says, “Half of my life is gone, and I have let / The years slip from me and have not fulfilled / The aspiration of…

epic, the inevitability of death is a prominent theme. This theme leads characters to seek out an approach to life that will leave them with an eternal legacy. The repetition of verses provides a window into Gilgamesh’s change of view on life from the beginning to the end of this epic. In this essay we will examine the significant changes in framing and overall meaning of lines 22-25(Pg. 2) two and lines 327-329(Pg. 99). The circumstances surrounding these lines on page two presents them as…