Muse

In the section Music, Isidore of Seville first gives context behind the word; music is explained to be derived from the Greek word ‘Muse’. The nine Muses used their voices to tell and sing stories. They are credited as the inspiration of literature and the need to write down words. Isidore of Seville also refers to the Greek myth of Orpheus in Etymologies, explaining that Orpheus perfected the…

Odysseus learns how much he truly longs for Ithaca. The beginning of the poem, Part One: Book 1 Starts off with Odysseus, through the singing of a Muse tells his story of his journey home. The Muses sing about how “He saw the townlands and learned the minds of many distant men, and weathered many bitter nights and days in his deep heart at sea, while he fought only to save his life, to bring his shipmates home.” (371) Odysseus…

Sonnet VI Michael Drayton’s sonnet number six describes a setting of the world where many women paint the streets. Drayton in line 1 explains that these women are “paltry, foolish, painted things” describing them as meager or of no importance where as they try to by foolishly painting themselves with make-up like children playing adults for a day. These women surround coaches on the streets soon to be forgotten due to the fact that no poet has ever written about them in a sense that gives a…

Leadership has concerned an amount of people on deducting its theories. It is the ability that people, only a few, have to motivate and inspire them to achieve goals in life and find a purpose to go on, flee and face their problems. Leaders have their own ways of thinking and dealing with the group they work with. The basic theories that are common used by them to lead people are the Great Man, the Trait, the Behavioral, the Participative, the Situational, the Contingency, the Transactional and…

In her letter To His Excellency, George Washington, Wheatley uses classical Greek mythology such as the muses and aspects of ancient history to create allusions as she goes about her thoughts on slavery. This showcases her intelligence and learning when she calls upon the “Celestial Choir! Enthroned in realms of light, Columbia’s scenes of glorious toils I write” (Wheatley 362) as a poetical muse, which inspires her to write on the injustices of her society. This is followed by her…

and seizing ships and holding people for ransom is that there is a lack of consequence for example, Abduwali Muse, the leader in the captain Phillips kidnapping was only put in prison in the United States for only 33 years and 9 months (2014, travelthruhistory.com) which he is only 27 so by the time he is released from prison he will only be 60 and will most likely still be alive. Abduwali Muse hijacked a ship and took a man for ransom and he is only in a federal prison for only 33 years. But…

can see where the artist stands and what he thinks is best for a woman. The woman in the painting isn’t even given a name as if that wasn’t dehumanizing. It shows you that her only job was to please and nothing else. Her sole purpose was to be his muse “smiling at him with kind eyes every day”. Could you imagine what her life would be like if she was not just a painting on a wall hidden behind screens? This was probably like what most women felt their lives were like at this time. They probably…

Asserting the Woman’s Experience in Anne Bradstreet’s “To My Dear Children”, “To My Dear Loving Husband”, and “A Letter to her Husband, Absent upon Public Employment” For centuries, artists find a woman to be a most worthy muse. Poets proclaim her beauty, her poise and charm. Her physical presence is evident but her intellectual contributions are absent. Women with pens of their own come and go, wedging a space for themselves in a male dominated field. When the quest to start a new nation comes…

Imagine a world where everything is based upon keeping a made-up being happy, a world where humans believe this blindly because no one has decided to ask why. This is the exact world of Before Christ Greece. The “made-up beings” were best described by Homer and Hesiod and were called gods. The existence of the gods was not questioned by the greeks for many years. Nature philosophers came into being when they started asking why and tearing down the world brought on by Homer and Hesiod. One such…

as and it usually attracts not only women who believe they are all these things but also women who, in other words, are not satisfied with themselves or their looks. This advertisement is evidently publicizing a perfume spray called Modern Muse Le Rouge. Le Rouge is the color red spelt in French and it is also the color used in the photograph, giving it a bold, colorful impression. Advertisers seemed to purposely use the color red to give the advertisement a sexy feeling and to hook the…