Life Is Beautiful

the Fall Diane Ackerman wrote the essay Why Turn Color in the Fall to remind us that like leaves we too will eventually fall and change from “one beautiful state into another.” (196) In her essay, Ms. Ackerman uses vivid word choice, strong verbs, allusion, and definition to get her point across. Ackerman uses personification to bring her essay to life. In this essay, we learn how and why leaves change their color. She explains that after summer “a tree reconsiders its leaves.” (195) The…

constantly circulates, causing fury in the water that only He can calm. Water, a loving and all-knowing presence that is not shaken by the storms of life. Gray skies circle the sandy beach. The gray color is angry, infuriated, anxious for what is to come. But the blazing orange and red horizon captures the gray skies and turns them into something truly beautiful. A breathtaking sunset frames the ocean, praising Him with it's spectacular colors and swirls. The bright sun comes up above the…

The poem, “Nothing Gold Can Stay” by Robert Frost, relates the behavior of Nature to the real events that happen in life. The theme of the poem, acknowledges the fact that nothing very beautiful or wonderful can stay forever. This portrays in the whole poem, meaning that each and every sentence ties into the theme. In the very first sentence itself, Frost starts with the sentence, which is an alliteration and a metaphor, “green is gold”. This takes the idea to the stage where we are compelled to…

Bishop Latour’s Achievements When one gets older, he start to reflect on his life instead of looking ahead as someone young would do. In Death Comes for the Archbishop, Bishop Latour has reached this point in his life. At one point, he felt as if he was a failure: “His soul had become a barren field. He had nothing within himself to give his priests or his people. His work seemed superficial, a house built upon the sands. His great diocese still a great heathen country….The Mexicans were…

The poet, Walt Whitman, the creator of “ Song Of Myself” from the book Leaves Of Grass, depicts the meaning of our life and our purpose of the universe as a beautiful life cycle of death and rebirth anew. Whitman conveys that “for for every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you,/… every atom of my blood, form’d from this soil, this air.”.,Whitman believes that the individual makes us unique in our own way while sharing common ground with others. This conveys that in Whitman’s poem we…

a spirit, and the ladder of love Diotima’s first objective was establishing that love is a middle ground, not stratified to one spectrum of good or bad. “Watch your tongue,” she exclaims at Socrates, “do you really think that if a thing is not beautiful, it has to be ugly,” (Plato, Symposium, 46). A flaw often found in human thinking is the practice of thinking in binary. One often places something as good or bad, not taking time to consider the in between. She uses the example that just…

is asking herself if she can continue living her life the way she is when most people think that nature does not symbolize life. More than that however, she is able to dream of things like “the eternal spring of life” because she sees past the practicality of life. Through the greatness of nature she can dream of better things as she approaches death. Nature as she explains it is a form of comfort, something that allows people to dream and see life in as full of chances. Through the fact that…

Sometimes you just really need to get away from it all. Taking a real vacation, one that allows you to escape the pressures of everyday life and work is not always easy, though. It is hard to take a break when the real world can text, call, or email you on your phone at any moment. If you truly want to get away, you need to go somewhere relaxing, beautiful, and most importantly, remote. These three gorgeous vacation destinations are more than ideal, and located right here in the U.S. Mooney…

death and begin to embrace the thought. Life wasn't always hard and empty, I had my friends and my wife and our families. I feel optimistic, a spark of hope that in the afterlife I will see them again. I begin to cypher through the memories, the good and the bad and one by one a silent tear rolls down my wrinkled aged cheeks. Yes lord I am ready to die, take me home. It was the summer of 1914; I had just turned eighteen and was so in love with a beautiful fine young lady whose smile would light…

represented as beautiful because of the thoughts she was having. Pus the scenery she was looking at while she was having her realizations were beautiful as well. So that was also one of the reasons why she was described as beautiful. Also the moments before her last hour were beautiful as well because she realized that she was going to have answer to but herself. Then to some people, death is a beautiful thing to happen in human nature. In this case Louise Mallard had a beautiful death because…