transcending love, the description of intellectual love in conjunction with time and death throughout the poem as well as lack of humans in its description creates a detached tone throughout the sonnet. When compared to “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning”, Donne’s poem actively mentions humans in order to tell…
here, Passed on: African American Mourning Stories, examines the racial politics of the death care industry throughout the twentieth century of African Americans. Holloway demonstrates how racial injustice such as violence against African Americans and medical neglect has shaped African American’s transition between this world and afterlife. In what follows, I offer an explanation of the book’s content, followed by an evaluation. Passed on: African American Mourning Stories contains five main…
impossible to pinpoint whether or not a couple’s love is true. In the past, poets used the theme of love and made personal views on affection through their work to argue their opinions on the topic of love. In the poem “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning” John Donne argues that having a physically intimate relationship means that the love between two people is shallow, however I disagree and feel that a couple can be affectionate while also maintaining a strong, spiritual connection. It is…
Beginning with “Loss”: The Initial Phase of the Ethics in Judith Butler’s “Violence, Mourning, Politics” of Precarious Life This paper aims to discuss about the problem of the rhetoric of Judith Butler’s “Violence, Mourning, Politics” of Precarious Life (2004) by comparing with Douglas Crimp’s “Mourning and Militancy” (1989). Immediately after the September 11 attacks (9/11) in 2001, the majority of US nations supported the United States governments conducts that they launched air raids on…
Monday marks the traditional Chinese mourning period of 100 days. One hundred days, 2,000 plus hours. The Chinese mourning period may be over, but the pain over the death of Yuk-Jen Loy is not. A few dozen gathered on a pad of concrete in Chinatown Monday night across from the spot where the 72-year-old grandmother was pushed to the ground last summer. Police said 24-year-old Tajanetta Downing shoved her. A day and a half later, Loy died from injuries related to the fall. "I find it pretty…
about her mother and the mourning techniques of others, which in some ways angers her and is seen as disrespectful. It is the diction and language of the mourners that Hadas takes into notice. She also realizes the great character her mother possessed and how much she had taken it for granted. The author attempts to cope with her mourning by writing poems, but she can never finish one fully. She then begins to correlate her feelings with those of Hamlet’s, considering the mourning of his…
The aim of this assignment is to depict the various differences and similarities in Donne’s courtly sonnets and holy sonnet sequence, with reference to “A Valediction Forbidding Mourning” and “Holy Sonnet XIV”. “A Valediction Forbidding Mourning” depicts through various conceits and metaphors the theme of the bond between two lovers who are separated physically, but are not ready to sacrifice their relationship and passion due to the mere fact that they are separated by distance. This poem…
formalism is line. In this painting, Andromache Mourning Hector, the line is horizontal for the most part of this piece. The reasoning is because the bed is horizontal, along with the man’s…
This idea is depicted through Piero di Cosimo’s Satyr Mourning over a Nymph. Through scientific scrutiny, this painting can be better understood. Professor Michael Baum, a leading art critic and cancer expert, clarified a common misconception about the painting. The painting was believed to depict a woman who…
Violence, Mourning, Politic, the authors mentions a society in which no one is an individual and where everyone is connected and functioning together with no beginning, end, or middle. Butler’s concept of the impossibility of the individual is reestablished in all of…