Lament

amazing periods full of musical genius and ingenuity that has made them go down in history as some of the most influential time periods for music composition. Among some of the most praised and defining pieces from those time periods include Dido’s “Lament” from Purcell’s “Dido and Aeneas” from the Baroque period, while pieces such as “Queen of The Night” from W.A Mozart’s “Magic Flute” exemplify the Classical period. These pieces both exhibit exemplary musical qualities from their respective…

“happily ever after.” At least that’s the version most young girls have been told. However, not many have heard this familiar story from the wicked stepmother’s perspective. Sara Maitland offers this opposing point of view in “The Wicked Stepmother’s Lament,” which significantly changes the meaning of the tale. Traditionally, Cinderella…

period wrote an elegy for the things they miss from their time before their exiled. Some writers were forced into exile by others for political reasons while others fled for their own safety. As seen in “The Seafarer”, “The Wanderer”, and “The Wife’s Lament” exile was a major anxiety in Anglo-Saxon literature as the threat could come from anywhere at anytime. The poem “The Seafarer” is about a man who has spent most of his life on the sea, as he starts his elegy by writing how the sea took him…

In “Logan’s Lament,” Logan says, “I have sought it; I have killed many’ I have fully glutted my vengeance.” Meaning Logan set his sights on those responsible for the murder of his wife and children. But once he fulfilled his quest of vengeance, Logan “rejoiced in the…

The health of the natural world is required to sustain all life forms, as it provides the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the food we eat. While the relationship between the natural world and humans is beneficial for our health on a biological level. For Indigenous peoples, the relationship with the land is much deeper as the environment is central to their mental and spiritual health and, as a result, physical health also. For this reason, colonization has had a major impact on…

In the first line of the poem, “Farewell, thou child of my right hand, and joy,” Jonson is saying good bye to a child. The notion that the child is “of my right hand” suggests that the child stems from Jonson’s own flesh. Since the right hand is typically described as the dominant (and more beneficial) hand, Jonson utilizes this symbol to describe a significant and positive aspect of his life. While Jonson holds his son in high regard, the line “My sin was too much hope of thee, lov'd boy”…

which shows that century’s corpse is apparent everywhere. To further emphasize the diminishing hope in the world, the speaker feels that "His crypt the cloudy canopy, the wind his death-lament”(12-13). The alliteration of ‘c’ as well as “Century’s corpse” intensifies the atmosphere of gloom and deathliness. ‘Death-lament’ gives the impression of a death rattle being sung by the wind. The use of the word ‘his’ makes the wind more familiar and human-like. By making the wind seem more familiar…

Tremper Longman III accurately identifies in his Preface that the Psalms are both “familiar” and “foreign” to many people in the church. People in and outside of the church are constantly exposed to the Psalms. It is a common book for devotionals and laments. However, even with people’s daily exposure with the book it has not made the text much clearer in regards to the poetic idioms, expressions, and structures that people have struggled to understanding when reading the book of the Psalms.…

stupidity!” (5) He is a monster but is still reviled by the nonsensical violence, his own violence, that dominates existence. He reviles both humanity and himself. Grendel accepts the reality of his situation. He is a savage, fiendish monster. He laments “Not of course, that I fool myself with thoughts that I’m more noble” (Gardner, 5). He refers to himself as a “pointless, ridiculous monster crouched in the shadows, stinking of dead men”. In just a few lines we see what Grendel thinks about…

Beowulf. Grendel talks about a monster who lives with his mother in a cave who discovers the world and became fascinated in it except for the brutal violence that was brought to the world by king Hrothgar and his men. Then we have the poem The Wife’s Lament which is about a woman who…