Invocation

way to the palace, Vasco stopped to pray at a Hindu temple. He was under the mistaken belief that the Hindus were heretical Christians. His landing party had assumed that Hindu temples were Christian churches, they had misconstrued the Brahmans invocation of a local deity as veneration of the Virgin Mary and they had decided the Hindu…

their perception of same-sex marriage, providing evidence in support of Hypothesis 2. However, the fact that previous experiences of racial discrimination do not have the same effects was unexpected; this may indicate that black collective identity invocation has limits in the ways in which they affect which cultural frame is to be dominant when black LGBTs consider LGBT-specific social issues like same-sex…

nothing else but the Name of the Lord as a means to attain closeness of the Lord. This verse stresses on the futility and uselessness of invocation of the Name of the Lord without intense love. The two most essential components in the pursuit of attaining the closeness of the Beloved, according to this verse, are prem-pīḍā and lāy, without which, remembrance or invocation of the Lord’s Name would be futile. Prem means ‘love’, ‘affection’, ‘liking’, ‘attachment’. Pīḍā means ‘pain’, ‘agony’,…

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…

Keats loses his vision when he says “I cannot see what flower are at my feet, / Nor what soft incense hangs upon the boughs,” (IV. 41). Afterward, he is granted a heightened sense of smell and invokes this sense with words such as embalmed, sweet, seasonable seasons (an intriguing play on words), hawthorn’s distinct odor, pastoral eglantine, violets’ indirect smell which is significantly “cover’d,” a musk-rose (sounds like some Spanish wine I know), and then tops it off with dewy wine. In stanza…

According to US history (2017), the history about the pledge is that the Pledge of Allegiance was created for every citizen. For example, the pledge was written in August 1892 by the socialist minister, Francis Bellamy. Also, it was originally published in The Youth’s Companion on September 8, 1872. Finally, Bellamy hoped that the pledge would be used by every citizen in any country. In conclusion, US History says that the pledge can be used by any citizen who wants to solemnly promise to stand…

Publius Vergilius Maro most famously known as Virgil, was known as one of Rome's greatest poets during the Augustan Age. Like all epics, The Aeneid uses certain traditional techniques: invocation to the Muse; the beginning in media res (in the middle of things); the catalogue of heroes; epic games; and the symbols. After the Trojan wars demolition, born a great hero, Aeneas, who was searching for his identity and the Romans. The Virgilian epic poem is a paratactic. Aeneas is from Troy, he is…

3. Luther felt the way to salvation was to lead a pure life, take guidance from the Bible and place one’s faith only in God and his grace. He did not think that “good works” had any place in the church. He refuted sectioning religion into the following of various Saints and rejected the concept that people could eat and drink and do what they liked, with the confidence that repentance who absolve them. Luther felt the Roman Catholic Church, under the authority of the pope, was not adhering to…

In William Wordsworth’s “London, 1802,” the poet John Milton metonymically symbolizes the artistic excellence and revolutionary vigor the speaker believes England has lost. However, the speaker also appeals to Milton for moral guidance, correlating England’s political and cultural stagnation to a forgotten moral foundation. While the speaker employs parallelism and a wide variety of poetic devices to demonstrate this causality, his conspicuous and incessant use of the colon and semicolon…

The middle ages were a time in which the subjects of magic and witchcraft were widely prevalent and greatly influential. There are various factors that played key roles in shaping the structure of magic, and changed as time progressed. In David J. Collins Albertus, Magnus or Magus? Magic, Natural Philosophy, and Religious Reform in the Late Middle Ages, he illuminates on the studies of Albertus Teutonicus, a friar who was accused of witchcraft, and individuals that tried to clear his name. On…