Meaning of life

creates deep meanings, expressing her personal and emotional family life in her poems. Sharon Olds uses methods of literary techniques such as metaphor, repetition, alliteration, imagery and symbolism to convey meaning in her poems. Olds’s poems, "The victims" , "One Year", "The Race", and "The Daughter Goes to Camp" have different meanings that reflect on her life. Olds’s use of the literary techniques help the reader understand and connect to the poem making it easier to find the meaning. In…

“What is the meaning of life?” he thought about it and finally he simply said “to live for others.” I then asked the gentleman “What do you think justice is?” he replied “The punishment one receives from doing the wrong thing or bad things. However, I don’t think you should take justice into your own hands.” When I asked “What do…

the murder lack morals like many of characters in the story. In The Stranger the lack of morals shows the characters in what they should be shown as, by how they react to life changing events leading to the characters proving Absurdism’s main beliefs, the search for meaning in life leads to the realization that life has no meaning or the act of filling up the void with other things. To begin Raymond, the neighbor of Meursault (the main character) in The Stranger, abuses his girlfriend…

philosophy on the value of life. This contrast between each character’s interpretation of life is captivating and grabs the attention of readers. This notion of philosophical beliefs about life portrayed throughout the novel as readers become exposed to the various philosophies different characters possess in the novel. With such a variety, the reader is able to connect to Albert Camus’ novel through their own opinions and experiences to create their own philosophy about the value life holds.…

written by the same author, E.E.Cummings, and both have great meaning behind them just different topics. For instance, "Since feeling is first", in this poem the author places an idea that is located in each stanza which brings out the true meaning of the poem. both poems have great significance behind them, and also life experiences within them, they were made perfect in the structural form so that one may understand the mood and meaning behind each poem. All four stanzas in " since…

Life, according to David Swenson, is not life unless it is happy. In order to achieve happiness, one’s life must be submerged with a sense of meaning, reason, and worth, thus happiness must be justified. To obtain a meaning to life, one must contribute to life to progress their talents which will, in turn, help themselves and others. But more importantly, Swenson speculates that the purpose of one’s life is to develop an instinctive view of life to achieve happiness. Swenson explains the…

Freud, Tolstoy, and the Meaning of Life The idea of the self becomes more and more popular in the 20th century. With this idea comes the question of whether or not life has a meaning, and if so, what is the meaning? This question is attempted by many great thinkers of the time including Leo Tolstoy, Sigmund Freud, and C.S. Lewis. Each of these thinkers aim to understand the nature of the question and hopefully answer it. In particular, Freud and Tolstoy are very convincing in their…

be an end to all life. Whether this may be as a result of a nuclear war outburst, or a deadly disease that spreads across the nation its hard to predict how this may come to happen if it even does. In one of the 2012 hit rock songs Radioactive by Imagine Dragons, I believe that the song is trying to use apocalyptic…

"spiritual" is the Latin word spiritus meaning breath. Breathing,…

Right Bird Left is a painting that primarily used four of the visual elements to show and display a different meaning of the painting. This is a painting that used implied texture, which was accomplished by the way the artist worked on the brush strokes. The strokes created an idea that there were textures that were actually on the painting, even though they were not there. I think that it was good that Krasner made the strokes look different with the brush and changed the way it looked because…