Life Is Beautiful

that the quest for immortality is a futile one, as creation itself also contains the seed of death, making it inescapable. He learns that it was the Gods intentions for it to be this way, and he returns to Uruk having learned that the quality of one’s life is measured not by wealth or fame, but by the quality of the time he spent while alive and the people with which he surrounded himself. Gilgamesh learns that overcoming death is not worth it, and that being mortal is okay. He praises the…

In his article “Jimmy Santiago Baca: Poetry as Lifesaver,” Rob Baker gives detail on how Baca survived life in prison, his savior being poetry, he taught himself how to read and write so that he could participate in the creative art. The pros talk about how Baca turned his life around with poetry, and how it got him off the street, however, one major con is, while in prison, Baca supposedly taught himself how to read and write after not learning to do so for over 20 years. Even though Baca has…

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…

beauty, but somehow her contradicting beauty is natural because of her purity. In “Mutability”, there is this main contradiction about humans lives that seems complex, but is simple because it is natural. It suggests humans want the simplest things in life like love, virtue, and friendship,…

According to this argument, our souls existed before birth and knowledge is only possible through the process of recollecting what was learnt in a previous life . Socrates affirms that the ability to recollect knowledge must prove a souls existence before the human form . Through recollection, a person can be reminded by something of another entity that is similar or dissimilar . Socrates gives the example…

River, published in the year 1960 addresses the topic of his experience on the Brazos River and argues that the Brazos River is important to keep. He supports this claim by illustrating the plant and animals, then the sounds of nature, and finally the life of the river. Graves’s purpose is to protect and convince the people to save the Brazos Rover and land around it, to preserve the river for future generations. He adopts an informative tone for his audience, the readers of Texas and others…

people so exasperated and angered? As I sat in nature looking down at a canyon blanketed in snow, this is the only question I could think to myself. The snow, God’s beauty sent down to Earth, is not something to be angered about. Why is the snow beautiful? Is it merely the looks, or is it the meaning behind the flakes falling from the sky? To fully answer this question, I headed out on a chilly, snowy morning in November with nothing but an open mind and a jacket. As I stepped outside, I felt…

of nature and sympathy, Wordsworth provides the reader with lessons in dealing with grief and remembering the truth. Wordsworth’s poem, “The Ruined Cottage”, tells the sad story of Margaret’s life. When the narrator of the poem meets Armytage at the cottage, Armytage recounts the events of Margaret’s life. While the narrator is interested in his story, Armytage finds comfort in his happy memories of her and her cottage. The poem’s narrator…

Why are poems written and why are they so admirable? My answer to this question is because poems are raw. Most poets write about death, love, pain, suffering, destruction, nature, beauty and much more. In other words, they do not sugar coat anything for us, the readers, which is why I describe their work as raw. Another reason I consider their work is raw is because, poets, tend to write about their own lives and their own experiences which allows the readers to relate to them with ease. The…

However, whatever seems to get thrown at us, most of the time, we have managed to cope with it and sometimes the horrific things in life can shine a light on what is beautiful. I think the salmon in the poem represented that feeling. The flooding, the broken dams, the lost Indians escalated into a huge celebration of the salmon that was caught from the river on the reservation. The natural disasters were…